The Center for Public Integrity

McCain’s Land Swap Deja Vu

Latest Allegations Are Not McCain's First Land Swap Controversy

Republican John McCain’s controversial 2005 land swap deal, reported today by The Washington Post, is eerily reminiscent of a similar situation reported by the Center for Public Integrity in its book The Buying of the President 2000.

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“[Money] certainly buys access, and, if that were all, that alone is influence.”
— Former U.S. Senator Fred R. Harris, an Oklahoma Democrat and a 1972 and 1976 presidential candidate
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Buying of the President 2004

Read everything the Center’s ever written about money in presidential politics.
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The Candidates

See what the presidential hopefuls have disclosed about their personal and campaign finances.
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Interview with Tova Andrea Wang

Tova Andrea Wang is the vice president for research at Common Cause. Prior, she was a democracy fellow at the Century Foundation, where she led an election reform working group. Before that, Wang worked for the National Commission on Federal Election Reform and for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign.

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Bill Hogan on Dan Rather Reports

Going Going Gone: The Auction Blog

Down but Not Out

Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign is $20 million in debt, her aides confirmed, but senior adviser Howard Wolfson told Fox News that “there is no reason for her not to continue this process


Bad Connections

Two staffers on Republican John McCain’s campaign resigned due to ties with DCI Group, a consulting firm that represented Myanmar’s military junta in 2002, The Wall Street Journal reports

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