{"id":2472,"date":"2008-03-19T09:34:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T15:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/lets-elect-the-rich-old-white-guy\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T09:35:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T15:35:45","slug":"lets-elect-the-rich-old-white-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/lets-elect-the-rich-old-white-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Elect the Rich, Old, White Guy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Clinton, McCain delay on making tax returns public<br \/>By William Douglas, MCT<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Both McCain and Clinton are wealthy. <strong>McCain was listed as the ninth-richest member of Congress<\/strong> last year by Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper. It pegged McCain&#8217;s net worth at more than $44 million, with most of the money coming from his wife, Cindy Hensley McCain, who is chairwoman of the nation&#8217;s third-largest Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship. The family also has extensive real estate holdings. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Clinton was listed as the 21st richest lawmaker<\/strong>, with a net worth estimated at $12 million, but she could be worth up to $50 million based on her 2006 financial disclosure form for Congress. It&#8217;s much less detailed than tax records. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama didn&#8217;t crack the Congress Top 50<\/strong>, listing a net worth of $456,000 to $1.14 million.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2008\/03\/18\/CAMPAIGN_TAXES_0318.html\">Clinton, McCain delay on making tax returns public | ajc.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton, McCain delay on making tax returns publicBy William Douglas, MCT Both McCain and Clinton are wealthy. McCain was listed as the ninth-richest member of Congress last year by Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper. It pegged McCain&#8217;s net worth at more than $44 million, with most of the money coming from his wife, Cindy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/lets-elect-the-rich-old-white-guy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s Elect the Rich, Old, White Guy!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}