Action beats Words - Feel free to sign it Roo....

Dear Eric,

Earlier this week Joe Sudbay of America Blog and Reverend Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus delivered 32,000 of your signatures on our complaint against John McCain to the Federal Election Commission.

Check out the video of the delivery

This morning at a McCain event in Alexandria, McCain was introduced as a "hero" because of his work in campaign finance reform. Right. The guy who helped to write the law now doesn't want to obey it, just because there's nobody around to enforce it (thank you George W. Bush for gutting the FEC). The McCain campaign's defense is "Obama did the same thing," but that's a crock. John McCain applied for public financing. Obama never did. John McCain was accepted into the public financing system. Obama never was. The chairman of the FEC, David Mason, says McCain is therefore still in the system and bound by its limitations, but McCain is just ignoring him.

It goes to McCain's character. He believes the law is for someone else, not for him. He's chiding Obama for not agreeing to public financing, even as he's 4 million dollars over the $54 million spending cap imposed by the public financing system.

For Thee But Not For Me. The John McCain story.

This by no means marks the end of our efforts. We're going to keep putting pressure on McCain and pushing the media to cover this issue.

In the meantime, make sure that you and all of your friends have signed the letter to the FEC.

http://aciton.firedoglake.com/mccainfec/

Thank you for taking action,

Jane Hamsher