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McCain Cancels Appearance at Bilbray Event
Republican Sen. John McCain abruptly canceled a scheduled appearance at a fund-raiser for an embattled California GOP congressional candidate who has attacked his Democratic opponent for supporting McCain’s immigration bill. Due to speak at the breakfast event last Wednesday for Republican candidate Brian Bilbray, who is seeking to replace disgraced Rep. Randy "Duke” Cunningham, McCain said he would not attend the affair. But his spokesman emphasized that the Arizona senator has endorsed Bilbray and his boss’s Straight Talk America political action committee would make the maximum allowable contribution of $5,000 to Bilbray's campaign.
Bibray is involved in what polls show is a neck-and-neck race against Democrat Francine Busby in a district that is usually heavily Republican. He is a lobbyist for an anti-immigration group, and has repeatedly attacked Busby for supporting the immigration bill McCain helped author.
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According to the Associated Press, an e-mail sent to the Bilbray campaign by McCain spokesman Craig Goldman acknowledged that McCain and Bilbray "disagree on some of the issues related to immigration reform."
The AP said that Goldman did not return phone and e-mail messages left seeking comment. Editor's note:
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