• Arizona's governor will appoint Martha McSally to John McCain's former seat
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https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/12/18/martha-mcsally-named-doug-ducey-kyl-mccain-arizona-senate-seat-lost-sinema/2277884002/ Republican U.S. Rep. Martha McSally will replace retiring U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl to fill for the next two years the Senate seat long held by the late U.S. Sen. John McCain. Gov. Doug Ducey’s decision to appoint McSally, announced in a statement Tuesday and effective next month, revives her political life less than two months after she narrowly lost the  race for the state’s other Senate seat to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. It also makes Arizona one of only a handful of states with two women in the U.S. Senate. Prior to Sinema's election, Arizona had never selected a woman to fill a Senate seat. In prepared statements, Ducey and McSally echoed the same sentiment: an expectation that McSally and Sinema, her 2018 political rival, would work together in the Senate. Ducey and McSally are scheduled to speak at a joint news conference in Phoenix on Tuesday morning. In a statement about his selection to The Arizona Republic, Ducey cited McSally's military background and six deployments to the Middle East and Afghanistan. Ducey's pick may anger an array of voters, from liberals and independents who rejected McSally in November to conservatives who view her as having blocked former state Sen. Kelli Ward from exciting the GOP base during the 2018 primary election.
At the very least he could have appointed somebody in the vein of McCain who was at least somewhat sane when it comes to politics. McSally is nothing but a hard Trumper. This is just another nail in the coffin that was the old and marginally less crazy Republican party.
Hoping she'll be double loser at 2020.
Republican leadership is increasingly being taken over by Trump loyalists. With each appointment, the successful impeachment of the president, and the prospect of a "soft landing" for the executive branch, get slimmer and slimmer.
I agree, but John McCain was not sane when it came to politics. John McCain was a career criminal
I remember seeing all those articles claiming Mccain's wife held the key to his seat and laughing. his wife holds nothing, his state is far right firebrand conservatism now
That's why I used "somewhat". I can't think of any of his positions as sane but he had a respect for the institution and integrity that I can appreciate. He was willing to stand for his morals over politics. I just don't agree with his ideology. I do think career criminal is a high bar that he doesn't reach though. Misguided / questionable ideology? Sure, but I wouldn't call him a criminal.
He had no morals and no integrity. This is a myth created to sell newspapers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
The level of corruption and pettiness on display is stunning.
Sinema will still be the first woman Senator of AZ and the senior Senator, so that's good. https://twitter.com/brahmresnik/status/1075083079977394177 McSally will have to be re-elected in 2020. Dems will have to take that opportunity.
So I didn't know about this incident but even the Wikipedia article doesn't really pin anything on him other than poor judgement. McCain was even regretful of his involvement. I can't really find any clear indication of wrongdoing on his part here. McCain and Keating had become personal friends following their initial contacts in 1981,[11] and McCain was the only one of the five with close social and personal ties to Keating.[42][43] Like DeConcini, McCain considered Keating a constituent since Keating lived in Arizona.[35] Between 1982 and 1987, McCain had received $112,000 in political contributions from Keating and his associates.[44] In addition, McCain's wife Cindy McCain and her father Jim Hensleyhad invested $359,100 in the Fountain Square Project, a Keating shopping center, in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators.[7][45] McCain, his family, and their baby-sitter had made nine trips at Keating's expense, sometimes aboard Keating's jet; three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating's Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay.[7] McCain did not pay Keating (in the amount of $13,433) for some of the trips until years after they were taken, when he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln.[7][46] On April 9, 1987, a two-hour meeting[4] with three members of the FHLBB San Francisco branch was held, again in DeConcini's office, to discuss the government's investigation of Lincoln.[7][11] Present were Cranston, DeConcini, Glenn, McCain, and additionally Riegle.[7] The regulators felt that the meeting was very unusual and that they were being pressured by a united front, as the senators presented their reasons for having the meeting.[7] DeConcini began the meeting by saying, "We wanted to meet with you because we have determined that potential actions of yours could injure a constituent."[13] McCain said, "One of our jobs as elected officials is to help constituents in a proper fashion. ACC [American Continental Corporation] is a big employer and important to the local economy. I wouldn't want any special favors for them.... I don't want any part of our conversation to be improper." Glenn said, "To be blunt, you should charge them or get off their backs," while DeConcini said, "What's wrong with this if they're willing to clean up their act? ... It's very unusual for us to have a company that could be put out of business by its regulators."[7] The regulators then revealed that Lincoln was under criminal investigation on a variety of serious charges, at which point McCain severed all relations with Keating.[7] Glenn and McCain: cleared of impropriety but criticized for poor judgment[edit] The Senate Ethics Committee ruled that the involvement of Glenn in the scheme was minimal, and the charges against him were dropped.[55] He was only criticized by the Committee for "poor judgment."[58] The Ethics Committee ruled that the involvement of McCain in the scheme was also minimal, and he too was cleared of all charges against him.[55][56] McCain was criticized by the Committee for exercising "poor judgment" when he met with the federal regulators on Keating's behalf.[7] The report also said that McCain's "actions were not improper nor attended with gross negligence and did not reach the level of requiring institutional action against him....Senator McCain has violated no law of the United States or specific Rule of the United States Senate."[59] On his Keating Five experience, McCain has said: "The appearance of it was wrong. It's a wrong appearance when a group of senators appear in a meeting with a group of regulators, because it conveys the impression of undue and improper influence. And it was the wrong thing to do."[7] Regardless of the level of their involvement, both senators were greatly affected by it. McCain would write in 2002 that attending the two April 1987 meetings was "the worst mistake of my life".[60] Glenn later described the Senate Ethics Committee investigation as the low point of his life.[8] The Senate Ethics Committee did not pursue, for lack of jurisdiction, any possible ethics breaches in McCain's delayed reimbursements to Keating for trips at the latter's expense, because they occurred while McCain was in the House.[61]The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct said that it too lacked jurisdiction, because McCain was no longer in the House.[62] It said it did not require that McCain amend his existing financial disclosure forms for his House years, on the grounds that McCain had now fully reimbursed Keating's company.[62] McCain testified against Keating in a civil suit brought by Lincoln bondholders, and was seen as the plaintiffs' best witness Like, the optics of his relationship with Keating were not good, but as soon as McCain learned Lincoln was under investigation, he cut contact and reimbursed Keating for the various trips, even later testifying against Keating. Sure, the appearance is bad, but I see no criminal in McCain here.
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