Interesting. When he was running his wife didn't strike me as having any actual political thoughts in her head, she just fancied living in the White House and being referred to as First Lady. Or perhaps he's dumped her? She was wife number 4 I recollect.
I doubt he dumped her as she comes from a VERY wealthy family. Her father, Jim Hensley, was a convicted mafia guy who mixed with organized-crime figures before founding his company in 1955 (oh the irony!). On 2000 there was a cover story on the New York times ( "Haunted by Spirits") which detailed McCains relationship to the beer industry and the politician?s reliance on his wife?s fortune.But the 1994 bombshell, "Opiate for the Mrs", written by Amy Silverman, was the piece de r?sistance. The story exposed the McCain machine?s Arizona apparatus as it endeavored to silence a former employee of Cindy McCain?s nonprofit American Voluntary Medical Team, which flew medical supplies and doctors to Third World countries and war-torn areas.
The whistleblower had tipped off the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that Cindy McCain was addicted to Vicodin and Percocet, and that she had been using AVMT as her personal pharmacy, pilfering the pills to feed her addiction. Silverman?s story destroyed the McCains attempt to spin the tale as that of a senator?s spouse heroically going public with her drug habit in order to help others in a similar situation.
When all those articles trashing the Mc cains got published in the New York times GUESS WHO owned the newspaper at the time?
Michael Lacey and James Larkin., the actual owners of backpage who got arrested.
Reach your own conclusions in this space.