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Cindy McCain, whose fortune from her father's beer distributor has helped fund her husband's political career, stands to get even wealthier once iconic American brewery Anheuser-Busch Cos. is sold to a Belgian company.Hmm... convenient that McCain would change his stance just shortly before an opportunity to profit from it. I'm sure that's just a coincidence, though. I wonder if the purchase will go through in time for the money from a foreign corporation to bolster his election warchest. If so, no doubt that's a coincidence, too. I mean, this is tough, bipartisan, independent, not-yet-senile McCain we're talking about, not some typical politician beholden to corporate interests, right?
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Cashing out could leave the McCains with hefty capital gains, which would be taxed at a rate of 15% under the Bush tax cuts that John McCain opposed and now supports. (Barack Obama has proposed raising the capital gains tax.)
The combined company will be called Anheuser-Busch InBev. As of the end of last week, InBev said it would be the world's third largest consumer products company by market capitalization after Procter & Gamble of the United States and Nestle SA of Switzerland.
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It's interesting that you bring up personal gain as a political motivator. Because while I think Jesse V is a great rabble-rouser (that clip you posted a while back was amazing), his political MO was "does it help me?" when he was the governor of MN. Witness his campaign platform: higher ed funding is stupid because I didn't need it. Then once he was elected, he wanted to lower (or completely cut?) Jet-ski license fees. Guess what he likes to do in the summer?
I can't remember much else, and I know he was pretty hampered by the legistlatures, but my perception was that he's got good ideals but gets mired in reality, as you wrote somewhere else.
Yeah, in the mythical "perfect party" (where all my Democratic heroes find the courage, that I seemingly lack, to stop being Democrats, and found a new idealistic party that all my non-Democrat heroes immediately join), Ventura is not on board to actually run things or serve in any office. He's just there to stir up shit, say the things others are too afraid will say, and get people involved.
I can't really comment on whether or not he was a good governor, as I'd moved to Albuquerque by then and Minnesota politics wasn't at the top of the NM (not MN) news hour.
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