Another House John & Cindy Wanted to Keep Quiet

[kpete]

Another House John & Cindy Wanted to Keep Quiet
by Gramarye
Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 06:53:44 AM PDT

This is a very interesting story about the McCains and one of their homes in a local Arizona paper today. It seems the McCains tried to keep one of their house purchases secret when they needed it for a political move.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/123725

How McCain came to live at 921 E. Lamplighter Lane and how he left are both interesting footnotes in his political career.

According to biographer Robert Timberg, in early 1982 McCain needed an East Valley residence, and quickly. Republican Rep. John Rhodes was stepping down from a long career in Washington, and McCain wanted that seat.

But McCain lived in Phoenix, outside the boundaries of what was then the 1st Congressional District. So wife Cindy went to work.

As Timberg states in his book, "John McCain: An American Odyssey," on the very day of Rhodes' news conference announcing his retirement, Cindy bought the Lamplighter house.

And in late 1986, before McCain was voted into his first term in the Senate, a report from The Associated Press revealed he planned to move after the election and wanted that news kept quiet.

more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/22/9445/21889/26/572555
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/123725

[cynatnite]

1. Does this make it 10 or 11 houses?

:shrug: I lost count.

[jillan]

3. It's owned by other people now.

[FatDave]

12. You lost count?

Don't worry, so did John McCain!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[jillan]

2. It's on the front page of that paper -

:)

[redqueen]

4. Kinda like Cheney moving so he could run on the ticket with Bush?

These people just don't give a crap about rules of any kind...

[bushisanidiot]

20. Rules only apply to democrats.

.

[redqueen]

21. You'd think some of the cons would be ashamed...

I wonder if they're even capable of shame.

[speedoo]

5. A little gasoline on the fire...

I love it.

So now all the McCain house stories are no longer deemed not newsworthy.

How many more will we see?

[L. Coyote]

8. McCain Flips Flop to Get Elected! = Old habit?

Sorry, I missed this thread when I posted "McCain Flips Flop ....

[bushisanidiot]

6. They are swine! Living it up in too many mansions to count while the rest of america suffers.

what assholes!

[TahitiNut]

10. Hogs feeding at the trough.

:puke:

[annabanana]

7. So. It's actually "convenient" for him to be a little fuzzyon where or

how many houses he has...

[bushisanidiot]

19. Yeah, his memory seems to come and go only when it's convenient.

he remembered that cross in the sand after so many years of not talking about it, but he can't remember how many friggin' houses he has NOW?!

[TahitiNut]

9. Y'know, it's not just the 'houses' that I find remarkable. Imagine the cost ...

... of furnishing and stocking an entire household. We're not talking rental furniture and bare cupboards, I don't think. We're talking pots and pans and trash containers and yard tools and dishes and the whole range of crap that makes even the most bare bones household livable. It's NOT like they move out of one place and into another (like normal people). It's also not like the property is sitting vacant. (Try researching the cost of homeowner's insurance for unoccupied property - it's HUGE!!!)

I once had a fire that pretty much destroyed the upstairs and did a lot of smoke damage downstairs. I lived alone. I was away overnight to return to the aftermath in the morning. For one reason or another (I'll not go into) I had to do a COMPREHENSIVE inventory of the destroyed (and damaged beyond repair) personal property. It was AMAZING how it added up! I maxed out the $125,000 limit without covering all of it, and that was in 1990.

For MOST of us, the replacement cost of the personal property in our homes is far greater than the cost of the real property itself. Considering the 'tastes' of the McCains and the square footage to be furnished .... (yikes!!).

[Kceres]

11. Yep, paid staffs, too.

Housekeepers, gardeners, pool boys, etc. You wouldn't expect Cindy to turn down her own bed at night or wash the dishes would you?

[FatDave]

14. To the tune of $270,000 a year

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6689723

[bushisanidiot]

18. And how many of those employed are legal immigrants?

McMoneyBags is just another cheap-labor repuke

[VolcanoJen]

13. And remember, when questioned about his carpetbagging, McCain played the POW Card.

McCain's exact words, which should come back to haunt:

"Listen, pal. I spent 22 years in the Navy. My grandfather was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. We have to live in all parts of the country, all parts of the world. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the first district of Arizona, but I was doing other things. As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi."

[book_worm]

15. Just think of all the money all those houses are worth and how much time do they actually spend at

each one? They could have done so much more good if they wanted to with that kind of money. Nobody needs so many homes.

[FatDave]

16. kpete, I don't know what we'd do without you

I mean that sincerely. You're the best.

[blondeatlast]

17. That's a pretty middle-middle class area--not a McSame type address. Sold for 335K recently;

according to Zillow, with pics (my hearfelt apologies to the present homeowners, this may become a nightmare for them).

I have friends in that same area, a few blocks away in the same subdivision, I know it well. I don't see th McCains in that 'hood at all. It hasn't even got a pool--a staple in that area. Very strange.

Zillow entry:

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8137198_zpid

Looks like a crystal-clear case of carpetbagging.