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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Will she wear a burka when meeting with her & John’s Al Qaeda allies?
“1776”
Really hope it doesn’t come to that. But it was necessary to shed us of George 3.
OMG!! This is DISGUSTING!! Gov. Ducey is playing with FIRE.
F***ing Oligarchs.
If you didn’t hate McCain for his treason and selfishness throughout his sick, sordid life, you should hate him because he thinks he is royalty. He never understood America or the idea of a Republic. Burn in Hell you totalitarian bastard.
I’ll bet songbird has been brain dead for a couple of weeks now. Machines are keeping him alive until June 1.
>>I’ll bet songbird has been brain dead for a couple of weeks now. Machines are keeping him alive until June 1.
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Yep, doesn’t seem like there is much that can be done about it : (
Who didn’t see that coming. Can someone tell me her qualifications to represent her constituents? Outside of doing the nasty with Old McLame.
Anticipating this very moment, apparently.
lol
Arizona deserves better. The folks are neat, but their political system sucks. Jeff Flake? Where’d he come from?!
But there is precedent for widows and widowers to take over: Sonny Bono’s wife, Missouri George Wallace’s wife became Alabama Governor, Senator Jean Carnahan, but closest match to Juan and Cindy is Eva “Evita” Peron for Juan
The people of Az better get their act together or Kali is their immediate future.
Not as bad as the revenge of Stanley Ann but close.
The solution to these problems is term limits. With term limits, John could have served his years and then gone on to something else.
The road to philanthropy was not as straight forward as your sentence makes it seem . No doubt being the heiress to one of the countrys wealthiest beer distributers eased her transition from a special ed teacher to tossing large sums of money to gain social status. She even bought a dark skinned daughter who was paraded in the opening days of Songbird's wreck of a campaign. Poor child's photo should be on a milk carton as she has never been seen again publicly, at least by the msm.
She got addicted to pain killers. She has had a number of other health problems as well.
or Mitt Romney or Hillary Clinton or...
WTF. What have we degenerated to.
Is this the one the scum left his disfigured wife to marry? Or is it the third or fourth wife?
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