Benefiting from InBev deal: Cindy McCain?
While elected officials here clamor to block InBev’s acquisition of Anheuser-Busch, at least one political figure stands to gain from the deal: Cindy McCain.
The wife of Republican presidential nominee John McCain inherited a Budweiser distributorship in Arizona, and owns a significant amount of A-B stock.
John McCain’s financial disclosure form filed with the Senate — posted online by the Center for Responsive Politics — shows Cindy McCain holds over $1 million in A-B stock.
And, because of the ambiguity of Senate disclosure requirements, her stake could be well over $1 million.
Either way, Cindy McCain stands to make a tidy profit if InBev offers investors a $65-a-stock premium.
Bloomberg and other financial wires have already reported on Cindy McCain’s potential windfall, but, so far, she has yet to make a comment about the pending deal.
Any windfall she receives, however, might be just short term gain.
Who knows what will happen to exclusive regional distributorships like Cindy McCain’s — the equivalent of finding a mint under the Christmas tree — with InBev at the helm?
Of course, the calculus is different for McCain, who has to balance her wealth with her husband’s political fortune. John McCain is already taking heat for his criticism of another major local employer, Boeing.
Losing the Brewery could be much tougher for Missouri voters to swallow.


I find it interesting that a family values candidate has a wife that makes money off of a company that sells alcoholic drinks packaged like normal energy drinks to entice children into that drug-filled lifestyle. And that Johnny wants to take energy resources away from future generations instead of developing already proven alternative energy sources.
Why don’t you all get as upset when we sell our military technology to folks we go to war with the next decade? That’s what is more important than a normal corporate takeover. That’s what america has become under conservatives…hostile takeovers, corporate welfare and smoke and mirrors.
I see Nicki Kasoff is back. Honey, this isn’t Fox News! Why don’t you go watch, or read, the great Moyer’s interview with with Rev Wright to see the difference between truth and soundbite-driven bias? Down near the end of the blog. You may learn something. Quite a bit different than the soundbites. I don’t think I saw you on here complaining about that soundbite propaganda. Maybe I missed you since JohnH is quite vocal at times and entertains us into facing in his direction. Go..learn…there will be a pop quiz soon!
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