McCain Would Fire SEC Chairman Cox
Republican presidential candidate John McCain would fire SEC CHairman Christopher Cox if he were president, accusing Cox of “betraying the public’s trust.” Cox was appointed by President Bush in 2005 and his term ends in June 2009.
“The chairman of the SEC serves at the appointment of the president and, in my view, has betrayed the public’s trust,” McCain told the crowd at a rally in this battleground state. “If I were president today, I would fire him.”
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Obama, stopping at a restaurant in Bernalillo, N.M., outside of Albuquerque, deflected a reporter’s question about whether Cox should be fired, saying he would be talking about the economy later in the day. Obama campaign adviser Linda Douglass said, “What we ought to do is fire the economic policies of George Bush.”