McCain Airlines
Posted by Matt Ortega on April 28, 2008 at 11:06 AM
The New York Times reported Sunday that John McCain frequently flew on a corporate jet owned by his wife, Cindy McCain, on the cheap.
But over a seven-month period beginning last summer, Mr. McCain’s cash-short campaign gave itself an advantage by using a corporate jet owned by a company headed by his wife, Cindy McCain, according to public records. For five of those months, the plane was used almost exclusively for campaign-related purposes, those records show.Mr. McCain's campaign paid a total of $241,149 for the use of that plane from last August through February, records show. That amount is approximately the cost of chartering a similar jet for a month or two, according to industry estimates.
This, like so many other things, is in direct contravention from statements he made earlier in the campaign season: that he wouldn't use corporate jets, or tap his wife's wealth.
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