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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Philanthrope - was she giving away her own money, or was it like the Clinton’s philanthrope where he gave away other people’s money?
Cindy is the one who’s been *paying* for that Senate seat all these years. Johnny Boy isn’t the moneybags of the marriage.
[I’ll bet songbird has been brain dead for a couple of weeks now. Machines are keeping him alive until June 1.]
Hey now. You could wind up on the nut-job conspiracy list with some of us! ;)
Note that I didn’t suggest you’re incorrect.
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Is AZ really that crazy?
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>> “If Ducey wants to be bitterly HATED by most Republicans in Arizona, that would do it!” <<
I would hope so anyway!
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Been thinking he’s been dead for awhile now, let’s see him if he’s not.
We thought the so-called UNIParty was at its end since November 2016.
Seriously? LOL
Bow to The New Royalty, with their hereditary National political titles.
This sounds like a very good way to lose a Senate seat in the general election when the people have a choice. She may be a good conservative or not. She is an unknown politically as she has for years been not a politician with known values but known as the wife of John McCain.
This is a mistake. Actually McCain’s daughter would be a better choice. She is a known person with known political beliefs. Her political beliefs conservative lite.
A better choice would be any conservative with a good track record in Arizona politics and well known within the state.
You don’t inherent Senate seats , the Republican govener should appoint a real republcan
Did not know that one of the senate seats for the state of Arizona was owned by the McCain family. I remember how the Democrats thought that the senate seat occupied by Kennedy in Massachusetts was owned by the democrat party. Liberals tend to think alike. They have an attitude of entitlement- like the nobility from kingdoms of old.
Monarchy MALARKY!!!!
>>No more Dynasties! No more sympathy votes!
The forefathers of this great nation fought a bloody revolution to get away from political leadership by heredity, and yet today we have more and more fools taking us back in that direction.
No more Kennedys. No more Carters. No more Bushes. No more Clintons. No more McCains. Etc.
This has to go through the governor, does it not?
It’s a giant mark on Ducey. It’s probably the single biggest action a governor can do is appoint a Senator.
Bound to happen....that’s how we got President Jeb Bush.....oh! Wait!!!!
I’d write the President’s people too. At least encourage him to say NO NO and NO to Dougie.
He too should have enough of traitors and Songbirds in GOP clothing
McCain can only betray America one last time, instead of over and over and over again while he’s alive. But it would be nice to defeat him in death at least.
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