crazy NPR story on now about Cindy McCain not only child of her father as she has claimed.

She has a half-sister. Inheritance totally different for two kids! Cindy McCain refused to respond to them for story.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93710952

Jim Hensley's Other Daughter

by Ted Robbins

Audio for this story will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET

All Things Considered, August 18, 2008 · Prospective first lady Cindy McCain is the only child of her mother and father. But her father, Jim Hensley, had another daughter from a previous marriage, Kathleen Hensley Portalski, who contacted All Things Considered about a profile of Cindy McCain.

The are as genuine as a three dollar bill.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/mccain/articles/2008/04/20/20080420firstlady.html

Cindy Lou Hensley McCain
Family

• Only child of Jim and Marguerite Hensley. Has an older half sister.

• Married John McCain, whom she met in Hawaii in 1979, in 1980.

• Four children: Meghan, 23, is blogging from her father's campaign (mccainblogettes .com). Jack, 21, attends the U.S. Naval Academy. Jimmy, 19, is on active duty with the Marines. Bridget, 16, is in high school.

Education

• Undergraduate degree in education and a graduate degree in special education from the University of Southern California.

Professional

• Chairwoman of her family's business, Hensley and Co., one of the largest Anheuser-Busch wholesalers in the country. Net worth may be at least $100 million, if she is the majority owner of Hensley, as assumed, according to the Associated Press.

• In 1978-79, taught special-needs children at Agua Fria High School in Avondale.

Interests

• Likes to drive high-performance sports cars. Has driven a Corvette, GTO and Cadillac CTS while taking courses in executive protection, drifting and women's driving at the Bondurant School of High Performance Driving in Chandler.

Humanitarian work

• Founded the American Voluntary Medical Team in 1985 to provide care to children in developing countries. While running the organization, she led 55 medical missions. Disbanded in 1995.

• Adopted Bridget in 1993 from Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh.

• Serves on the boards of Halo Trust, a landmine-clearing charity, and Operation Smile, a charity that treats children with cleft lips in developing countries. On leave from board of CARE, a global poverty-fighting charity.

• Humanitarian missions include trips to Morocco, Vietnam, India, and Kosovo.

Personal

• Three-year addiction to painkillers, which she attributed to two back surgeries and stress from the Keating Five scandal.

• Minor stroke in 2004, which doctors attributed to high blood pressure. Ran in the 2005 P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona 1/2 Marathon after a full recovery, representing the American Stroke Association.

• Has had two knee replacements. The first had to be redone because of a ligament injury.

And it sounds like her dad had a similar marital history to McCain.

It's still kind of crummy.



McCain herself routinely uses the phrase "only child," as she did on CNN last month. "I grew up with my dad," she said then. "I'm an only child. My father was a cowboy, and he really loved me very much, but I think he wanted a son occasionally."

McCain's father was also a businessman — and twice a father.

"I'm upset," Kathleen Portalski says. "I'm angry. It makes me feel like a nonperson, kind of."

That's very unfortunate. She's anti-abortion but she denies the existence of her half sister?

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rocknation

talking about daddy's little girl stuff. nt

I think I heard the reporter say there were records of a child by her mother's previous marriage, too. Not an only-child by either parent.

I am somewhat sympathetic, since I was raised as an only child, and have half-siblings and step-siblings I did not grow up with. It can be confusing, especially when someone asks you if you have brothers or sisters ("Well, how much time do you have?").

However, to publicly deny the existence of your relatives is really cold and creepy. Especially since the first daughter was basically written out of the will (a $10,000 lump sum from a father who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars is a real slap in the face). Her father essentially discarded his first daughter as an embarrassing mistake and started over with a new family...

She's entitled to much more than that.

That wouldn't produce a sprain.

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rocknation

her, held her arm and was saying "take it back." Ya never know....

interesting. I've received these glowing right wing e-mails which make it sound like Cindy McCain taught for years.

Where Mr & Mrs John McCain met.

I guess Cindy's words were a little more carefully chosen than I thought at first, but still, she's got some family issues.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93708729

http://www.mem.com/Story.aspx?ID=1560009

Smitty was born Marguerite Johnson on January 16, 1919 in Cairo, Illinois. She married Jim on March 29, 1945 in Memphis, Tennessee while he was on leave from his service as an officer in the United States Air Corps during World War II. After the war, Jim and Smitty relocated to Jim's hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. ...

She is survived by two daughters, Dixie Burd and Cindy Hensley McCain; five grandchildren, Bobby Burd, Meghan McCain, Jack McCain, Jimmy McCain, and Bridget McCain; one great-granddaughter, Deann "Burd" Mitchel and two great-great-grandchildren, and one sister, Jeri Harbolt.


On edit: A poster at TPM last spring wrote, "Her full name as revealed by the database Veromi is Deborah Ann "Dixie" Burd and she was born April 18, 1953." (http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/mccain_rejects_rightwing_preac.php) This doesn't make a lot of sense -- most likely, the database is wrong, but is it possible that Dixie was born illegitimately while Jim Hensley was off in the slammer for his organized crime connections? Something seems very mixed up here.


On second edit: Dixie is definitely not the same person as Deborah Ann. A Newsmeat listing of contributions by people named Burd in Arizona (http://newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=Mesa&st=AZ&last=burd) shows donations to McCain in 1982-86 and again in 1999 from Dixie Lea Burd, housewife, and Bob J. Burd of Hensley & Co. Then on 7/5/07, it shows donations of $2300 to McCain for the primary from Dixie L. Burd, James R. Burd, and (at a different zip code) Deborah A. Burd.

It looks like Dixie was was married to Bob J. Burd (1932-2004). According to Veromi, James R. Burd is 54 -- which means he could be Dixie's son "Bobby" if Dixie and her mother "Smitty" both had their first child at the age of 17 or 18. Since Smitty's obituary from 2006 refers to a granddaughter and two great-grandchildren, that seems likely to be the case, and Deborah Ann is presumably Bobby's wife.

Cindy was also born in 1954, so she would have grown up with a nephew of her own age and a half-sister old enough to be her mother. And the other half sister must also have been at least ten years older. Reason enough, I guess, to feel like an only child.


On third edit: Confirmed it.

http://genealogytrails.com/ill/pulaski/obits_b/bobby_burd.html

Bobby (Bob) J. Burd, age 71, passed away January 1, 2004.

Bob was born in Mounds, Illinois. His memories live on with his wife Dixie, son James (Bob Jr.), daughter-in-law Deborah, granddaughter Deann, grandson Michael ... Bob was Senior Vice-President of Hensley and Company the local, Anheuser-Busch Distributor.


On fourth edit: Veromi shows Dixie Lea Burd as being 74. So she was born in 1934, when Smitty was just 15. Interesting.

about 15 minutes ago.....

family values, family values.