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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If a choice between those two, Meghan would be much better. She’s more conservative than her father.
I hope Dicey installs anyone but McCain...
By many accounts, she IS worse than her husband. Much worse, if that is possible.
I really hope her activities will be well-researched and exposed, much the same as her traitorous spouse, and that it will happen BEFORE she is ever sworn in.
Cindy is a bigger RINO than her filthy-mouthed husband. Ducey had better tread carefully. Appointing Cindy would be a slap in the face of every Trump supporter, and there are A LOT of us here in Arizona! We will have our revenge at the ballot box. Watch it, Ducey!!!
She’s certainly qualified (sic):
In describing her struggle with drugs, McCain has said that she became addicted to Vicodin and Percocet in early 1989 after rupturing two disks and having back surgery. She has said she hid her addiction from her husband, Sen. John McCain, and stopped taking the pain medications in 1992 after her parents confronted her. She has not discussed what kind of treatment she received for her addiction, but she has made clear that she believes she has put her problems behind her.
While McCain’s accounts have captured the pain of her addiction, her journey through this personal crisis is a more complicated story than she has described, and it had more consequences for her and those around her than she has acknowledged.
Her misuse of painkillers prompted an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and local prosecutors that put her in legal jeopardy. A doctor with McCain’s medical charity who supplied her with prescriptions for the drugs lost his license and never again practiced medicine. The charity, the American Voluntary Medical Team, eventually had to be closed in the wake of the controversy. Her husband was forced to admit publicly that he was absent much of the time she was having problems and was not aware of them.
Both horrid.
Being his daughter, she is understandably sympathetic toward her father. I am not saying she is a conservative, but on The View she has exhibited some conservative and pro-Trump stances that set her apart from her father, and I would assume, from Cindy McCain.
And if you don’t think she is just playing a part I think you are kidding yourself.
That's enough reason right there for him to not do it.
Or in the freezer.
1776
weekend at McCain’s
Ugh, No!!!!!
AZers...make your calls!
They float the worse candidate so the plebs will be ever so grateful to get Meghan. Disgusting.
Hopefully shes got all her marbles intact because her sick old fool of a husband lost his!
John McCastro?
Possibly...
Daddy taught her how to fake conservative, her appearances on the View were why I thought it would be Meghan, she’s been practicing. (My wife watches it, sometimes I hear it from the other room)
As long as it's his first wife Carol.
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