McCain Goes Left For Money

By PoliPundit ~ January 15th, 2007 @ 1:04 pm

John McCain has just signed up Lew Eisenberg, one of the most notorious liberal republicans in the state of New Jersey, to his finance committee.

Eisenberg, who was listed in the leaked Rudy Giuliani strategy memo as someone the campaign should try to sign on, is a liberal, pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, activist millionaire investment banker.

For those of you who follow the big money in politics, his name may sound familiar, he was the RNC Finance Chairman for Bush/Cheney. The person who urged the RNC to name him was … President George W. Bush.

Eisenberg is a close ally of former NJ Governor, Christine Todd Whitman, and the two of them have started and funded various organizations to help elect pro-abortion republicans in primary races. Their ultimate goal is to remove the pro-life plank from the republican platform.

His support of republicans appears to be limited however, as his money has been sent to liberal Democrats Walter Mondale, Dick Gephardt, Tim Wirth, Chris Dodd, Bruce Babbitt and Joe Biden, and others.

In a Nov 15, 1999 Rollcall article about Eisenberg, it was reported that he had voted in just two of 11 GOP primaries between 1987 and 1997.

McCain, supposedly a pro-life republican, is on the advisory board of the It’s My Party, Too PAC, a pro-choice organization started by Christine Todd Whitman, which Lew Eisendberg also sits on the National Advisory Board.

So, is John McCain holding his nose because Eisenberg can “show him the money”, or is McCain surrounding himself with like-minded allies ?