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America’s
Favorite Fun-Loving Couple
  
John & Cindy For
America’s First Family
John McCain
is truly a "man of the people".
According to his most recent financial
disclosure report, all book royalties
and appearance fees are donated to
charity, leaving McCain's sole income as
his Senate salary of $169,300 and Navy
pension of about $56,000. He has also
declared two joint bank accounts worth
up to $15,000 each. Thanks to a
convenient prenuptial agreement, John
McCain is essentially a poor man by
Senate standards, and his wife's fortune
is irrelevant. According to government
records, McCain has described his wife's
salary as simply "more than $1,000",
and, in a recent Today Show interview,
Cindy McCain explained that she "is not
a candidate" and has no obligation to
disclose her personal finances. As
heiress to her father's stake in Hensley
& Co. of Phoenix, the third-largest
Anheuser-Bush wholesaler in the United
States, Cindy McCain is widely assumed
within the beer industry to own a
majority of the company, making her an
executive whose worth would be at least
$100 million. Beverage industry analysts
estimate Hensley's value at more than
$250 million and its annual sales at
$300 million or more. Cindy McCain is
Hensley's chairwoman and holds at least
a 20 percent stake in the company,
according to Arizona corporate records.
Cindy McCain's beer earnings have
afforded her hubby a wealthy
lifestyle that includes a private jet
and numerous vacation homes, but those
are totally meaningless.
The beer
industry and its lobbyists, through its
PAC - the National Beer Wholesalers
Association, oppose drunken-driving
laws; alcoholic-beverage taxes; beer
labeling and advertising rules;
recycling programs and campaign finance
restrictions. Many of those issues come
under the purview of the Senate
Commerce, Science and Transportation
Committee, which McCain chaired from
1997-2001 and again from 2003-2005.
Interestingly, McCain voted "present"
when the Senate voted in March 1998 to
withhold state highway funding from
states that failed to adopt a .08
blood-alcohol standard for drunken
driving. Two years later, McCain voted
against the fiscal 2001 transportation
appropriations bill, which set a
national .08 standard, claiming that he
had voted against "pork barrel
spending".
There is no
question about it: John McCain is a man
of the people.
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Opiate For the Mrs.
When laws are broken, somebody's got to
be punished. In the case of Cindy
McCain, that somebody is Tom Gosinski
You're U.S.
Senator John McCain, and you've got a
big problem.
Your wife, Cindy, was addicted to
prescription painkillers. She stole
pills from a medical-aid charity she
heads and she used the names of
unsuspecting employees to get
prescriptions. The public is about to
find out about it.
Until now, you've managed to keep it all
quiet. When Tom Gosinski, a man your
wife fired, sued for wrongful
termination and threatened to expose the
whole sordid story, you didn't hesitate
to call in the big guns.
John Dowd,
the attorney who got you out of your
Keating Five mess, worked on getting
your wife a sweetheart deal with federal
prosecutors. He also made Gosinski's
lawsuit go away.
He didn't
stop there.
To help maintain your reputation and
discredit your wife's accuser, Dowd
called Maricopa County Attorney Richard
Romley and complained that Gosinski was
trying to extort money. Romley, your
Republican ally, promptly launched an
extortion investigation.
But now
New Times makes a public records
request for documents in the extortion
case. It's only a matter of days before
the story gets out.
Here's what
the senator does.
He calls in another big gun, political
strategist Jay Smith, who conceives a
rather remarkable plan.
On August
19--just three days before the records
are to be made public--Smith parades
your wife before a select group of
journalist friends. She tells a tale of
pain and triumph, and, incredibly, all
the reporters agree to sit on the story
until August 22. When Cindy McCain says
her confession is intended to quell
rumors and to inspire other druggies to
turn their lives around, the journalists
lap it up. They write about her
"bravery." The first round of stories is
one-sided. There is no mention of Tom
Gosinski or Romley's extortion
investigation.
Read the whole story here ...
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