Friday, August 8, 2008

Weekend reading material

The Phoenix New Times has a VERY long and detailed look back at John McCain's career representing the state of Arizona. It's not the most flattering look. Among the highlights

  • McCain went out of his way to humiliate former Arizona governor Rose Mofford on the Senate floor and jeapordizing the credibility of the Central Arizona Project (a bipartisan effort to bring tons of water to the very dry region)
  • McCain's now-forgotten role in the Savings & Loan Scandal of the '80's, including his relationships (both business and personal) with Charles Keating, the disgraced chairman of Lincoln Savings & Loan Association
  • Even though McCain talks about continuing the legacy of popular Arizona politicians like the (very liberal) former Congressman Mo Udall and former Senator Barry Goldwater (the grandfather of modern conservatism,) he wasn't exactly well-liked in their camps. One of Udall's close associates was horrified when McCain brought a reporter to one of his hospital visits with the ailing former Representative, and Goldwater personally soured on McCain after McCain tried to throw a fundraiser for himself thinly disguised as a tribute to Goldwater
  • Cindy McCain used her employee's names at the charity she was running to get painkiller prescriptions filled out. When one employee found out, he was terminated, which eventually led to the charity shutting it's doors.
It's nine pages long, so read it if you've got some free time. But there's some pretty crazy stuff in there about our next maybe president.

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