McCAIN TAKES CARE OF HIS OWN

St. Straight-talk McWAR has a history of doing favors for developers who just happen to donate to his campaigns and it's not just Donald Diamond. Via Steve Benen at Crooks & Liars, we learn that the Maverick has been doing this for years, according to the WaPo:

Betts is among a string of donors who have benefited from McCain-engineered land swaps. In 1994, the senator helped a lobbyist for land developer Del Webb Corp. pursue an exchange in the Las Vegas area, according to the Center for Public Integrity. McCain sponsored two bills, in 1991 and 1994, sought by donor Donald R. Diamond that yielded the developer thousands of acres in trade for national parkland.

In the late 1990s, McCain promoted a deal in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest involving property part-owned by Great American Life Insurance, a company run by billionaire Carl H. Lindner Jr., a prolific contributor to national political parties and presidential candidates.

It's nice to see that the "liberal" media is beginning to tell us more about McWAR.