Team McCain spokeswoman Lorna Romero responds to the Public Policy Polling survey that the Range posted yesterday:

We put zero stock in a partisan Democrat poll that is obviously aimed at boosting John McCain’s opponents in the primary and general elections. And even if you took this bogus poll at face value, it actually shows McCain in a stronger position today than PPP’s last poll, with his favorablitiy up eight points since March.

John McCain has always known this will be a tight race – that’s why he’s built a strong campaign that’s ready for any challenge this November. We’re confident that voters will choose John McCain, a great Arizona hero whose record of service and sacrifice is unmatched, over a documented conspiracy theorist or a rubber-stamp for President Obama’s failed agenda.

This article appears in May 12-18, 2016.

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5 replies on “Team McCain Dismisses Public Policy Polling Survey”

  2. Since the GOP thinks Obama is a Muslim who tried to enact Sharia law in the US, wouldn’t his agenda failing be a good thing?

  4. Senator McCain, the great American hero? Ignoring the fact that he crashed four airplanes and never set foot on the ground in a war until he was captured, I’ll give him leeway on that. BUT he does not deserve another term in the senate. His mean-minded, childish weekly blow about the president, his war expertise (which he really doesn’t have), his tandem march with Flake to rob the Native American population of lands that are rightfully theirs? Here is what he says he is: “The federal government has a trust obligation to Native Americans that must be honored. Senator McCain is the longest current serving member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and has fought tirelessly to support the principals of tribal sovereignty and Indian self-governance and self-determination.”

    Here is a part of what he really is: “Protections in place were renewed by President Richard M. Nixon’s Interior Department in 1971.

    (From body of text below: “This time, the giveaway language was slipped onto the defense bill by Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona at the 11th hour. The tactic was successful only because, like most last-minute riders, it bypassed public scrutiny.)”

    “Despite these protections, in December 2014, Congress promised to hand the title for Oak Flat over to a private, Australian-British mining concern. A fine-print rider trading away the Indian holy land was added at the last minute to the must-pass military spending bill, the National Defense Authorization Act. By doing this, Congress has handed over a sacred Native American site to a foreign-owned company for what may be the first time in our nation’s history.

    The Apache are occupying Oak Flat to protest this action — to them, a sacrilegious and craven sell-off of a place “where Apaches go to pray,” in the words of the San Carlos Apache tribal chairman, Terry Rambler. The site will doubtless be destroyed for any purpose other than mining; Resolution Copper Mining will hollow out a vast chamber that, when it caves in, will leave a two-mile-wide, 1,000-foot-deep pit. The company itself has likened the result of its planned mining at Oak Flat to that of a nearby meteor crater.

    The land grab was sneakily anti-democratic even by congressional standards. For more than a decade, the parcel containing Oak Flat has been coveted by Rio Tinto, Resolution’s parent company — which already mines on its own private land in the surrounding area — for the high-value ores beneath it.

    The swap — which will trade 5,300 acres of private parcels owned by the company to the Forest Service and give 2,400 acres including Oak Flat to Resolution so that it can mine the land without oversight — had been attempted multiple times by Arizona members of Congress on behalf of the company. (Among those involved was Rick Renzi, a former Republican representative who was sent to federal prison in February for three years for corruption related to earlier versions of the land-transfer deal.) It always failed in Congress because of lack of support. But this time was different. This time, the giveaway language was slipped onto the defense bill by Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona at the 11th hour. The tactic was successful only because, like most last-minute riders, it bypassed public scrutiny.

    It’s worth noting that Rio Tinto affiliates have been McCain campaign contributors, and that Mr. Flake, before he made it to Congress, was a paid lobbyist for Rio Tinto Rössing Uranium (a huge uranium mine in Namibia). Mr. McCain and others assert that the mining project will be a boost to the local economy, though it’s unclear how many of the 1,400 promised jobs would be local; a Superior-area miners’ group, in fact, opposes the swap on the basis that it won’t help the local people or economy. Rio Tinto, incidentally, has been called out in the past for environmental devastation.”

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