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Republican John McCain’s controversial 2005 land swap deal, reported today by The Washington Post, is eerily reminiscent of a similar situation reported by the Center for Public Integrity in its book The Buying of the President 2000.
The current reports allege that McCain pushed for a land swap deal that benefits one of his top campaign bundlers. The legislation, which passed in November 2005, will allow an Arizona rancher to trade remote grassland and forest for property that is ready for development — a move that the Audubon Society described as the largest in Arizona’s history.
The ranch owner, Fred Ruskin, hired SunCor Development, which is owned by longtime McCain supporter Steven A. Betts, to build as many as 12,000 homes on the property. Betts has raised more than $100,000 for the presumptive nominee, but claimed there is “absolutely no” connection between his contributions and the land swap deal.
The McCain campaign said Betts did not discuss the arrangement with the senator and “every land exchange bill introduced by Senator McCain has been written with the highest regard for the public interest.”
The Buying of the President 2000 unveiled McCain’s involvement in a similar land swap arrangement to benefit Del Webb Corporation, a homebuilder company whose executives and employees contributed about $56,000 to his campaign.

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