John McCain’s typical GOP approach to Drug Abuse
I believe it was in 1994 that Cindy McCain came out and told the world that she was addicted to the pain killers percocet and vicodin. Naturally the McCain ‘public manipulation’ campaign, which is rivaled only by Obama’s ‘convince the world my racist past is null and void’ managed to pull it off so Cindy came out the hero. The fact that she stole them from her own medical relief organization is the part that really sticks in my craw. Now here’s why.
Had this been someone else, like say a lower income wage earner, they could have easily served time. And we all know it’s always the “what about the children” Republicans that just love fighting this war on drugs. Yeah, they love watching African Americans go to jail so the streets are kept clean of drugs. Meanwhile their teenage son is buying and selling more dope than they’ve seen in their entire lives. So when it comes to their own family and friends? Well that’s another story all together. They just ask their lawyer “How much to clean this up?” And that usually takes care of the problem.
McCain is just a typical guy with an elitist mentality. He figures the laws don’t apply to him, if he can figure out a way to get around them. It would seem to me that a politician serious about fighting the war on drugs would certainly see that his family members who break the law have to endure the same punishment as the average voter. But instead, McCain and corp put the heat on the whistle blower (Tom Gosinski) that worked with Cindy McCain. It seems they were trying to get the local law enforcement to investigate the guy for extortion since he snitched to the DEA.
Anyway, before it was all over Cindy comes out and cries, I mean really cries, and manages to become the victim in this whole ordeal. Man, now that is smart. Although I rebuke the socialists of the Democratic Party, I will not be voting for McCain because I’m scared of them. I’m not voting for McCain because he’s just another stooge of the establishment. And the establishment is pushing this country towards hard socialism.
The liberals are, and have been for the last 50 years, in control of America. Currently even large percentages of the GOP want socialized healthcare. Socialism and central planning have become a disease of our entire planet. Republicans think that their government owns your body. The Democrats think that their government owns your money. I say, you bastards don’t own either!
Here’s the John McCain Public Manipulation Committe approved Wiki version of what REALLY HAPPENED
In 1989, Cindy McCain became addicted to opioid painkillers such as Percocet and Vicodin, which she initially took to alleviate pain following two spinal surgeries for ruptured discs and to ease emotional stress during the Keating Five scandal. There, her role as a bookkeeper who had difficulty finding receipts for trips on Charles Keating’s jet caused complications for her husband when he was already being examined for his role regarding oversight of Keating’s bank. The addiction progressed to where she was taking upwards of twenty pills a day and she resorted to stealing drugs from her own AVMT. During 1992, Tom Gosinski, the director of government and international affairs for AVMT, discovered her drug theft. Subsequently in 1992, her parents staged an intervention to force her to get help; she told her husband about her problem, attended a drug treatment facility, began outpatient sessions, and ended her three years of active addiction. A hysterectomy in 1993 resolved her back pain.
In January 1993, McCain terminated Gosinski’s employment on grounds of budgetary reasons. In spring 1993, Gosinski tipped off the Drug Enforcement Administration to investigate McCain’s drug theft, and a federal investigation ensued. McCain’s defense team, led by Washington lawyer John Dowd, secured an agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s office that limited her punishment to financial restitution and enrollment in a diversion program, without any public disclosure.
Meanwhile, in early 1994 Gosinski filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against McCain, which he told her he would settle for $250,000. In April 1994, Dowd requested that Maricopa County officials investigate Gosinski for extortion. The Phoenix New Times was about to publish a negatively-cast article about the whole affair. Cindy McCain pre-empted this by publicly revealing her past addiction, stating she hoped it would give fellow drug addicts courage in their struggles: “Although my conduct did not result in compromising any missions of AVMT, my actions were wrong, and I regret them.” A flurry of press attention followed, including charges by Gosinski that she had asked him to lie concerning her drug use when the McCains were applying to adopt their baby from Bangladesh and statements by past AVMT employees that Gosinski had once threatened to blackmail her. The Arizona Republic published an editorial cartoon ridiculing the motivations for her AVMT work and an award dinner in her honor was canceled citing poor sales. In the end, both Gosinski’s lawsuit and the extortion investigation against him were dropped.
AVMT concluded its activities in 1995. That year, McCain founded a new organization, the Hensley Family Foundation, which donates monies towards children’s programs in Arizona and nationally, and she was largely a stay-at-home mom during the balance of the 1990s. She also held positions as vice president, director, and vice chair of Hensley & Co.
Discuss this article, share ideas, and meet new people at Debt Prison Forums.
If you have found this information to be useful, please leave a donation for Barry.
Related Articles
* Do we have private property in the USA?
* Government Waste and FEMA Trailers
