For almost twenty years now, Republicans have been screeching on and on about the Whitewater land deal. Okay, let them screech. Hillary Clinton is not going to be running for President for much longer, and the more they babble about Whitewater, the more they’re setting John McCain up for a fall.
You see, John McCain has a Whitewater scandal of his own.
My thanks go to Daniel Patterson from Tucson for pointing to the news that John McCain’s role in a corrupt land deal involving National Forest lands for the personal profit of McCain campaign donor Steve Betts, head of the SunCor Corporation.
The story isn’t just about political corruption. It also involves corruption of the environment, as the land deal was hatched as a way to open up protected national lands to commercial development, degrading the land even as the democratic process was degraded.
It’s an important reminder for those Americans on the fence about John McCain. It seems that Senator McCain has a history of using his power in unethical ways that sacrifice the good of the American people for the sake of his own ambitions.
