No “good” deed goes unpunished. McCain spends a good chunk of his career fighting for campaign finance reform, the Holy Grail of the good government crowd, and now, when he’s in tough fight, the Center for Responsive Politics drops this well-timed bomb on him:

Mr. McCain’s campaign filings show just $61,000 from the military industry in the first quarter — less than half as much as the long-shot campaign of Democratic Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

An interesting tidbit from that article: McCain is jetting to 35 fund-raising events in the 30 days of June, hoping to raise more than $100,000 at each from small groups of big donors. He is passing the hat in six states — Georgia, Texas, Arizona, Alabama, Massachusetts and Florida — in just the five days ending Tuesday.