The AP just got word that George Herbert Walker Bush will be endorsing John McCain today. The power of the President and the former President are both behind Senator McCain now, I don’t believe Huckabee has a chance at the nomination anymore.
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The Keating Five (or Keating Five Scandal) refers to a Congressional scandal related to the collapse of most of the Savings and Loan institutions in the United States in the late 1980s.
In 1989, the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association of Irvine, Calif., collapsed. Lincoln’s chairman, Charles H. Keating Jr., was faulted for the thrift’s failure. several U.S. senators had approached him and requested that he ease off on the Lincoln investigation. It came out that these senators had been beneficiaries of $1.3 million in campaign contributions from Keating. a series of investigations by the California government, the United States Department of Justice, and the Senate Ethics Committee. The ethics committee’s investigation focused on five senators: Alan Cranston (D-CA); Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ); John Glenn (D-OH); John McCain (R-AZ); and Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D-MI), who became known as the Keating Five.After months of testimony revealed that all five senators acted improperly to differing degrees,The committee recommended censure for Cranston and criticized the other four for “questionable conduct.”…….OPPS….