Posted on 05/28/2018 9:32:13 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
As Arizonans prepare for their final salute to Sen. John McCain, Republicans and political pundits in the state privately tell Newsmax they expect the appointment of his wife, Cindy, to succeed him in the Senate.
Of course, no one in the Grand Canyon State who spoke to us wants to go on record discussing what will happen when the ailing McCain no longer holds his seat. But those who did agree, almost unanimously, that Cindy McCain following John in the Senate through appointment by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey is a near-certainty.
"I've always assumed that was the arrangement," said a friend of the McCain family since John's 1973 return from captivity in Vietnam.
A former Republican senator who served with McCain agreed.
"I don't know if this [succession] has been formalized, but that's what people who know John tell me."
(Both of those who spoke to Newsmax did so under promise of anonymity).
One source close to the McCain family said supporters of the senator have quietly let Gov. Ducey know Cindy is the choice of "Team McCain."
Others mentioned for appointment include Ducey's top aide Kirk Adams, a former speaker of the state House of Representatives, and Karrin Taylor Robson, multi-millionaire businesswoman and member of the State Board of Regents.
Because of the time factor involved in a Senate seat opening in Arizona, speculation has begun to mount about what will happen when the Senate seat Republican McCain has held since 1986 finally is open.
Should the seat become open before June 1, state law requires a special election this fall. Democrats from Phoenix to Washington, D.C., make little secret of their desire of having another Senate seat on the fall ballot in 2018 because they sense it is a good year for the party outside the White House.
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Meghan is actually better except on the social issues.
Send those emails and make those calls, NOW!
No more Dynasties! No more sympathy votes!
No more phony Conservatives!!!
NO MORE MCCAINS!!
After all, 'Team McCain' is what matters.
That's funny, because in November 2016 Democrats thought it would be a good year for the party inside the White House...
NO EFFING WAY!!!
McCastro.
She’s liberal, period, most likely.
Agree. I am thinking lesser of evils.
So dying RINO McCain works the corrupt, crony, insider political system to put his wife into one of the top political positions in the USA.
Holy shit, no wonder the establishment and deep state love this guy.
Amen!
It’s the SENATE not the House of Lords.
We fought two wars, the Revolution and1812, on our soil to get away from political dynasties.
Arizona, just say NO to further McCain jackassery.
Corruption from the grave. traitorous mccain.
This is not a %@$^**% aristocracy!
In 1989, Cindy McCain developed an addiction to Percocet and Vicodin. She initially took the opioid painkillers to alleviate pain after two spinal surgeries for ruptured discs. She also used the drugs to ease emotional stress during the Keating Five affair. The addiction progressed to where she was taking upwards of twenty pills a day, and she resorted to having an AVMT physician write illegal prescriptions in the names of three AVMT employees without their knowledge. In 1992, her parents staged an intervention to force her to get help she told her husband about her problem, attended a drug treatment facility, began outpatient sessions and ended her three years of addiction. In 1993, she underwent surgery, which resolved her back pain.
In January 1993, Tom Gosinski, an AVMT employee who had discovered her illegal drug use, was terminated on budgetary grounds. Subsequently, he tipped off the Drug Enforcement Administration about her prior actions and a federal investigation ensued. McCain’s defense team, led by John McCain’s Keating Five lawyer John Dowd, secured an agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s office for McCain, a first-time offender, which avoided charges while requiring her to pay financial restitution, enroll in a diversion program and do community service. Meanwhile, in early 1994, Gosinski filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against McCain, in which he alleged she ordered him to conceal “improper acts” and “misrepresent facts in a judicial proceeding”; he told her he would settle for $250,000. In response, Dowd characterized this request as blackmail, and requested Maricopa County attorney Rick Romley to investigate Gosinski for extortion. In the end, Gosinski’s credibility was undermined by testimony in Romley’s report from other charity staffers who asserted Gosinski privately vowed to blackmail McCain were he ever fired,and both Gosinski’s lawsuit and the extortion investigation against him were dropped.
Knowing that prosecutors were about to publicly disclose her past addiction, McCain preemptively revealed the story to reporters, saying that she was doing so willingly: “Although my conduct did not result in compromising any missions of AVMT, my actions were wrong, and I regret them ... if what I say can help just one person to face the problem, it’s worthwhile.”
I’ve said for months...wife or daughter. “It’s HIS seat”.
ugh. so little debbie is out of the running now?
I'm registered to vote in Arizona I would vote against Ducey if her appoints the wife.
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