

i dont believe the times would just publish a story to beat another news organization - not one like thischris - actually i think this will make his detractors rally to his side, rush seems to have already.

Even as he has vowed to hold himself to the highest ethical standards, his confidence in his own integrity has sometimes seemed to blind him to potentially embarrassing conflicts of interestĭoes this story have legs – who knows? I would think McCain’s favorite people like Ann, Rush and that arbiter of moral authority James Dobson will so enjoy Miss Vickiĭusty – everyone keeps saying this story is going nowhere, but they cant stop talking about it - it is cracking me upmatty – when someone makes ronald reagan seem young….piny - something is so fishy about this whole thing……. Iseman underscored an enduring paradox of his post-Keating career. In the years that followed, he reinvented himself as the scourge of special interests, a crusader for stricter ethics and campaign finance rules, a man of honor chastened by a brush with shame.īut the concerns about Mr. McCain’s political career by ensnaring him in the Keating Five scandal. It had been just a decade since an official favor for a friend with regulatory problems had nearly ended Mr. McCain led threatened the story of redemption and rectitude that defined his political identity. But to his advisers, even the appearance of a close bond with a lobbyist whose clients often had business before the Senate committee Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, both say they never had a romantic relationship. McCain had written letters to government regulators on behalf of the lobbyist’s clients, the former campaign associates said, some aides feared for a time that attention would fall on her involvement. When news organizations reported that Mr. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself - instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity. (Does the Gap make Gold dresses?)įrom the New York Times (a paper I do not read anymore, but KO reported it tonite)Ī female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, in his offices and aboard a client’s corporate jet. One has to wonder if Gold is the new Blue.

And perhaps Mike Huckapoo’s newest bestest friend. (Tiny Tim marries Miss Vicki on the Tonight Show in 1969) This marriage might not have lasted that long, but we all remember “Miss Vicki”
