SAN DIEGO, July 1, 2008

Cindy McCain Settles Back Property Taxes

Tax Bill For Property In San Diego County Had Been Sent To Wrong Address

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    Cindy McCain, wife of Republican Sen. John McCain, is seen during her visit to an Operation Smile mission at Da Khoa Tinh Khanh Hoa General Hospital in Nha Trang,Vietnam, Thursday, June 19, 2008.  (AP)

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(AP)  Cindy McCain's debts with the county tax collector appear to be settled.

Officials said Monday a trust controlled by the multimillionaire wife of Republican presidential hopeful John McCain had initiated payment on $1,743 owed in property taxes on a condominium in the tony La Jolla Shores area.

The payment, due in April, was scheduled to default Tuesday.

"You can reasonably assume that it is paid," San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector Dan McAllister said Monday.

Additional bills totaling $6,744 for the years 2004 through 2007 were paid by the trust on Friday after Newsweek magazine questioned why the trust had fallen into arrears on the two-bedroom, two-bath oceanfront property, McAllister said.

Jeff Olson, division chief of assessment services for San Diego County, said the post office returned tax statements for those years sent to an incorrect mailing address in Phoenix, where Cindy McCain's trusts are registered.

No address change was recorded after the condominium deed was transferred from another family trust in 2002, Olson said.

Brian Rogers, a spokesman for McCain's campaign, said Monday there would be no comment beyond what Newsweek had reported.

The Arizona senator's wife disclosed in May that she had a total income of more than $6 million in 2006.

Heiress to a large Arizona beer distributorship, Cindy McCain's worth has been estimated at more than $100 million. Her assets, as listed in her husband's financial disclosure forms, are vast. But those forms only require assets to be listed in broad ranges, and many of hers are valued at simply "over $1 million."

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by July 2, 2008 7:00 PM EDT
dear john,
can you please do something about your goiter on your face or do we need to have it run as vp on your ticket? cindy9000
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by armydog2 July 2, 2008 2:54 PM EDT
Sounds just like a kid saying the dog ate my homework.
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by July 2, 2008 2:00 PM EDT
WarDogLRS:
your just upset cause you voted for a guy who turned out to be a wolf in sheeps clothing.twice. don''t blame me for not voting for him
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by wardoglrs July 2, 2008 1:47 PM EDT
You stupid a s s voters are to blame for your leadership. Look in the mirror and then shoot yourself
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by aldon61 July 2, 2008 1:39 PM EDT
This story isn''t even relevent to the election; sorry CBS, I want to focus on issues.
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by July 2, 2008 1:27 PM EDT
more like "now cindy, you know why i''m running? so you won''t have to pay taxes anymore. plz keep these stories off the air until after i steal this election, er have the ppl vote for me, then you can do whatever you want. ok dear?"
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by bfjones666 July 2, 2008 1:16 PM EDT
So John McCain is like "C*nt, don''t you know how this is going to look? I''m running for f*ckin president here."

Gotta love that "salty" Navy talk.
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by July 2, 2008 12:30 PM EDT
put me on o"really, just for 5 minutes, he''ll turn lib, cause all those haters out there know i''m right (er left)
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by July 2, 2008 12:05 PM EDT
i hope so, but you know the repubs will rig another election
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by ianlou July 2, 2008 11:57 AM EDT
Notice how obama supporters shut up and slink away when asked a direct honest question ?
Posted by patriot12436

You will be shocked and dismayed in November when you see how many Americans pull the D Lever.
Get ready to continue your whining for the next decade.
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by Gary Kempf July 2, 2008 11:55 AM EDT
Did you see Cindy McCain touring that auto factory?
She had that look on her face that said "so this is where the little people spend most of the lives".


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Posted by ianlou at 08:45 AM : Jul 02, 2

I think it was more of a case of her wandering if she could score some drugs from one of the workers.
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by July 2, 2008 11:55 AM EDT
funny once we "libs" bring up the truth you all shut up (and you know who i''m talking about)
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by July 2, 2008 11:47 AM EDT
no worse than babs bush saying "these ppl have it good here in the superdome, much better than before the storm hit" not verbatum, but the gist
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by ianlou July 2, 2008 11:45 AM EDT
Did you see Cindy McCain touring that auto factory?
She had that look on her face that said "so this is where the little people spend most of the lives".
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by July 2, 2008 11:43 AM EDT
"doh"pe
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by antoniof123 July 2, 2008 11:35 AM EDT
So now we see the effect of drugs, she steals from charity, then refuses to pay property taxes and is worth how much.

I guess that is why they call it dope.
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by July 2, 2008 11:32 AM EDT
heck at our level of life, if one owes more than a buck, the irs et al will swoop down on you like an eagle and snatch away your home. reblicrats get all the breaks and then we have to pay thier bill via our taxes
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by toldyouso12 July 2, 2008 10:58 AM EDT
is this mccain''''s first wife or second, i lost count?

Posted by RGRXX175 at 07:42 PM : Jul 01, 2008


McCain''s first wife stood by and waited for him while he was a POW. She ended up handicapped and stayed by his side when he returned home. He repaid her by having an affair with Cindy and dumping his first wife and kids for her. Essentially, McCain follows in the rich tradition of wife swapping and humiliation as practiced by Rudy Guiliani, Newt Gingrich, et al. i.e. fvcking over the first wife and then dumping her and marrying their fvck partner. The Republicans are intent on us putting SOMEONE''S FORMER MISTRESS into the white house. If not Rudy and Judy, Then McCain and the wife he publicly calls a trollop and ****.
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by toldyouso12 July 2, 2008 10:53 AM EDT
$1,743 owed in property taxes on a condominium in the tony La Jolla Shores area.

The payment, due in April, was scheduled to default Tuesday.

"You can reasonably assume that it is paid," San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector Dan McAllister said Monday.

Additional bills totaling $6,744 for the years 2004 through 2007 were paid by the trust on Friday after Newsweek magazine questioned why the trust had fallen into arrears on the two-bedroom, two-bath oceanfront property, McAllister said.

Further proof of two America''''s, those who work and pay taxes. Those that are worth 100 million and don''''t worry about trivial things such as taxes.... If it was going into default, what happened to the interest owed?????

Posted by navpro at 07:16 AM : Jul 02, 2008

Not only that, but I used to live in San Diego and worked in La Jolla. In 1984, the cheapest home in La Jolla was almost a million dollars and by 1989 you could not get any condo not even a closet for less than 750K. It is considered one of the most expensive areas in the world to live in. Given that, how in the hell could they have a 2 bdrm condo with taxes of only 1,700 dollars in ANY year? Property taxes in Chula Vista on a 2 bdrm condo were over 3K in 1984!!!!!


Guess, if you have enough money, you don''t have to pay for stuff like the rest of us--wouldn''t be surprised if the rich are getting their gas for free, now.
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by toldyouso12 July 2, 2008 10:49 AM EDT
Hundreds of millions of dollars to their name and too lazy and stingy to pay a couple of thousand dollars--how much to bet, if this had been the average Joe--the property would have been auctioned off for the back taxes by now? Elitism at its finest. LMAO
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