Open Borders, Open Pockets, and Open Hypocrisy

Oh the story of John McCain and his open border-loving crew just gets better and better.

Michelle Malkin is putting the pieces together and the picture they’re making is an ugly and dangerous one. One excerpt:

The Reform Institute is a tax-exempt, supposedly independent 501(c)(3) group, as Ed Morrissey noted two years ago, “that employs Rick Davis, who also works on McCain’s staff as his chief political advisor, and they pay him $110,000 per year. The Reform Institute has often supported McCain, paid for events highlighting him and his agenda, presumably including campaign finance reform.” The Reform Institute received $200,000 in donations from Cablevision…and McCain basically tried to intervene on Cablevision’s behalf by writing a letter to the FCC supporting its regulatory agenda. Morrissey noted at the time: “[T]he Reform Institute helps keep McCain’s staff gainfully employed between campaigns, allowing McCain to do less fundraising while retaining the best of the available talent. For instance, Carl Hulse and Ann Kornblut note that Rick Davis managed McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000 before founding Reform Institute. Now its president, he gets over $100,000 a year from RI for “consulting services”. That money allows Davis to remain available for McCain’s future campaigns, and the funding he raises for RI gives him inroads for building support.”

Yep. Which is exactly how it worked out. Davis is now McCain’s campaign manager.

Well, that’s certainly not something you’d expect from the Straight Talk Express, now is it? Okay, perhaps from the New York Times’ favorite Republican. But there’s more. Follow on after the jump.

So where does the Reform Institute, on which board John McCain sat as an Honorary Chair for four years, get its money? If you guessed a flock of left-wing advocacy groups, including the anti-American George Soros, then you win a Kewpie Doll!

Ace follows on with an interesting question:

Remember that McCain/lobbyist scandal we heard about that McCain successfully got his new endorser, the NYT, to spike?

Have bloggers and others dug up what that scandal was about?

If you don’t remember that story, here’s a bit about it and McCain’s response. It sure looks like Ed Morrissey dug up what McCain wanted hidden and the Times has done heroic work to keep away from the attention of the rest of the MSM.

An enterprising candidate might do a little reading and educate himself on the suspiciously dirty business going on all around the guy who thinks the First Amendment is just fine for him but not for the rest of us.