“Coping” in opulence December 13, 2007
lc
http://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/%e2%80%9ccoping%e2%80%9d-in-opulence/
When describing the move from her North Central Phoenix property, she
says health issues “prompted her to move out of the only home she ever
knew,” to downsize.
http://www.mem.com/individual/assets/9/0/0/0/1560009/10232006_121331_PM_1.jpg
Marguerite "Smitty" Hensley
Kathleen Hensley Portalski and Dixie L. Burd
http://arizona.typepad.com/blog/2008/08/all-in-the-fami.html
Cindy McCain's Distanced Relatives
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082000253_pf.html
Cindy McCain Fighting With Long-Denied Sister Over Huge Beer
Inheritance
http://www.businesssheet.com/2008/8/cindy-mccain-fighting-with-long-denied-sister-over-huge-beer-inheritance
Oh The Lies We Weave
http://chamay0.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/oh-the-lies-we-weave/
August 21, 2008
The Christian Science Monitor's story quotes one analyst that thinks
Cindy might have a serious problem:
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/honors/074
"'You always have to look for a pattern,' says political analyst
Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia. 'If it happens once, you
can say it's a memory problem, but if there's a pattern there, there's
a problem.'"
A common problem with politicians -- and sometimes their wives -- is
that they try to be something they aren't. We at BuzzFlash
urge ...Cindy McCain to fess up. We don't care if she finds her
recipes online. We don't care if it was not a proto-saintly
intervention that convinced her to adopt a child. And we certainly
don't care if she has siblings! There's only one step to coming clean,
Cindy: tell the truth.
The husbands and wives of senators are subject to fewer disclosure
requirements than their office-holding spouses. In addition, Mrs.
McCain, who files separate tax returns from her husband, controls a
privately held company and invests mainly through a web of limited-
liability corporations and trusts that have few disclosure
requirements. She declined to be interviewed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/us/politics/23mccain.html?bl&ex=1219723200&en=64b9359593c2955c&ei=5087
“Cindy is a private person, and I think in many ways that defines
her,” said Robert Delgado, her father’s successor as chief executive
of Hensley & Company, who spoke at the McCain campaign’s behest.
Today, Hensley & Company is a major donor to Arizona politicians, and
has fought increases in the state excise tax, now about 1.5 cents a
beer. The tax has risen only three times since the repeal of
Prohibition, last in 1984, and remains 16 percent below the national
median.