Politics should be about Main Street, not Wall Street.

Here’s the story. In the late 1980s, John McCain was caught red-handed as a member of the Keating Five in an effort to pressure regulators to go easy on a political donor. Fast forward twenty years, and John McCain’s campaign for the presidency is crawling with banking and mortgage lending lobbyists who are raising money for him — including his campaign manager who had a $15,000 no-show contract with Freddie Mac for more than two and a half years.

McCain was involved in arguably the largest ethics scandal to hit the U.S. Senate, but rarely has anyone talked about it this campaign season. His intervening years pursuing modest campaign finance reform seem to have eclipsed everyone’s memory, including those in the media. But in this campaign, McCain has taken no clear position on what further campaign reforms he would pursue to rein in the power of political donors — including his own. Importantly, he’s backing away from his previous support for Fair Elections modeled programs.