Has a Senator now running for President ever been admonished by the Ethics Committee for poor judgment?

Question

Gee....will any conservative give a factual, straightforward answer? Or just make attacks based on lies and innuendo?

Answer 1

Hmm, Other than Ace McCain?  I think he is the only one that qualifies.  btw as far as his military record goes, he got his ace the hard way, he downed 5 of our own planes!! <Grin>

Answer 2

Yes....Democrat John Glenn.

Although his role in the "Keating 5" was limited, like McCain.

American Hero John Glenn was sacrificed by his party and dragged through the mud because the Democrats on the committee refused to leave McCain out of the "Keating 5" investigation.  

McCain and Glenn were considered "loosely involved" but leaving them out of the investigation would expose the fact that the three "ringleaders" were, in fact, all Democrats.

now....anything substantive you'd like to offer in support of your guy....or any facts from this decade....?

Answer 3

Unfortunately, back in those days the 'ethics' rules were so soft that McCain's behavior, which would be illegal now, only could bring an admonishiment.  His behavior however was definitely sleazy and it appears that some are blind to the following portion of the Wiki entry:

"...McCain and Keating had become personal friends following their initial contacts in 1981.[8] Between 1982 and 1987, McCain had received $112,000 in political contributions from Keating and his associates.[14] In addition, McCain's wife Cindy McCain and her father Jim Hensley had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators. McCain, his family, and their baby-sitter had made nine trips at Keating's expense, sometimes aboard Keating's jet. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating's opulent Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay. McCain did not pay Keating (in the amount of $13,433) for some of the trips until years after they were taken, when he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln.[6][15]..."

So, what McCain did was after becoming financially tied to Keating and accepting both political contributions and personal gifts from him, he then met with regulators in order to pressure them about Keating's bank.  Yeah, that was real ethical behavior, wasn't it?

Answer 4

are you talking about the Keating Five stuff.  he was cleared of all charges by the ethics committee.

dont believe me, heres a wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Fiv...

The Ethics Committee ruled that the involvement of McCain in the scheme was also minimal, and he too was cleared of all charges against him.[17][16] McCain was criticized by the Committee for exercising "poor judgment" when he met with the federal regulators on Keating's behalf.[6] The report also said that McCain's "actions were not improper nor attended with gross negligence and did not reach the level of requiring institutional action against him....Senator McCain has violated no law of the United States or specific Rule of the United States Senate."[20] On his Keating Five experience, McCain has said: "The appearance of it was wrong. It's a wrong appearance when a group of senators appear in a meeting with a group of regulators, because it conveys the impression of undue and improper influence. And it was the wrong thing to do."[6]