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John McCain’s national finance co-chairman has stepped down, the latest casualty of a presidential campaign eager to cauterize damage caused by its ties to lobbyists.
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In this Sept. 20, 2007 file photo, then-Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lott had nearly $1.3 million in political donations left over when he quit the Senate to become a lobbyist, and now he’s...
