AZ for Mitt

A blog dedicated to informing Arizonans about Mitt Romney and the campaign for the 2008 presidential nomination.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

One can find financial data on John McCain www.opensecrets.org. Many bloggers contend (and I agree) that the mainstream media are very friendly to and gentle in their treatment of the Arizona senator. It is interesting that the following communications or media-related companies are among the top ten all-time contributors to McCain:

AT&T (1)
Viacom (3)
Qwest (4)
BellSouth (6)
Verizon (7)
Time Warner (8)
Microsoft (9)

It is also interesting to note that McCain's fortune is estimated at somewhere between 25 and 38 million dollars! He ran a populist campaign against Bush in 2000 with an appeal to the common voter, but Bush's fortune is listed at "only" 8 to 21 million dollars.

And while Hillary Clinton is ranked as the 14th wealthiest senator, McCain comes in at 7th, one spot richer than Ted Kennedy.

Certainly no amount of money could adequately compensate Sen. McCain for his service to his country during Vietnam, but he does receive an annual pension from the Navy for $54,000. One wonders, given his assests (and the fact he made a quarter of a million dollars last year from his books), does he really need that taxpayer-provided money?

Gov. Romney, also quite wealthy, does not accept his $135,000 yearly salary as governor.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fascinating!

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Blogger GOPinsider said...

It's not John's money, it's his wife, Cindy's, from her family company, Hensley Distributing which is the Anheuser Busch Distributor for the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.

10:18 PM  
Blogger James Phillips said...

Does it matter whether you earn it yourself or marry into it? You can't tell me he doesn't have it at his disposal.

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