This article is a partisan hit job designed to influence people who don’t know the facts. McCain’s part in the scandal was a walk on walk off. He was naive and when he realized he had been maneuvered into looking like he was trying to exert influence he immediately withdrew. No stain on him and no stain on Sarah Palin following multiple non-substantive complaints by the same person who was on an all out smear campaign. I believe that the personal, and Alaskan government expenses and the disruption to the business of being Governor that these attacks caused was the reason Palin stepped down, in the people’s interest.
Why was he formally reprimanded by the Senate Ethics Committee, then?
You make it sound like he had no involvement. If so, a bi-partisan ethics panel shouldn’t have struck out at him.
Part of the problem is that senators life to live a millionaire’s life style on a smaller income. Doesn’t help that there are always man real millionaires in the Senate. His wife, of course, was from a wealthy family. Keating, of course, was a kind of “Madoff’type, and fooled a lot of people including Mother Theresa.
What a load of horse crap!
The article is factual as it relates to McCain.
McCain participation with Keating took place over seven years, some walk-on.
He accepted $13,000 in perks from Keating and did not report it as required by Congress. That alone should have gotten him booted.
The icing on the cake was McCain joining with four other sitting U.S. Senators to confront a banking regulator. He did it not just once, but twice.
McCain stated in his oun book, “I knew it was wrong, but Keating wouldn’t take no for an answer.”
It is reported that McCain didn’t advocate for Keating in those meetings, as if that would absolve him. When five sitting U.S. Senators demand a meeting, intimidation is the a major factor.
This banking regulator told the Senators he had referrals ready to go. Those referrals were not filed for more than a year after that meeting, and during that year many more people were cheated out of their life savings by Keating.
The meeting with the Senators had a real tangible impact, and McCain was an integral party to it.
LOL!
Lets see, McCain walks on and walks right off from a
situation that occured over 20 years ago when he got a clue.
JD Hayworth puts both feet into it with Ambramoff and Indian lobbying as late as a few years ago and just paying back the money which delayed his entering the Senate race.
Nice try by the article, but wishing won’t make it so.
LOL, you've got to be kidding! I've lived in Arizona all my life, I was here when it all took place, I work in construction and was VERY familiar with Charlie Keating and his lack of ethics. McCain spent a lot of time with Charlie, vacations, jaunts, etc. and old Charlies donated lots of money to McCain's campaigns. Don't kid your self about how "naive" he was. He knew what he was doing and it wasn't nice.