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Democrats challenge McCain on reform

Democrats challenge McCain on reform

By: Magnolia Tribune - September 16, 2008

The Clarion-Ledger, 9/16/8

Mississippi Democrats on Monday tried to discredit Sen. John McCain’s pledge to reform Washington, citing a report compiled by national Democrats that links his campaign with lobbyists.

Republicans denied that McCain favors special-interest groups and countered that Democrats also are linked with lobbyists.

McCain faces Sen. Barack Obama in a debate Sept. 26 at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Both have promised to reform Washington, and McCain has tried to distance himself from President Bush.

At a news conference at the Mississippi Capitol on Monday, Democratic state party treasurer Paul Winfield said lobbyists helping advise McCain’s campaign “would propose to give the big corporations a big boost while giving regular American people nothing and more importantly Mississippians very little relief, if any at all.”

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