The New York Times reported Tuesday that Sen. John McCain had an inappropriate relationship with lobbyist Vicky Iseman.
"It's not true," McCain said as his wife, Cindy, stood alongside him during a news conference in Toledo, Ohio. The Arizona senator described Iseman as a friend.
The New York Times quoted anonymous aides as saying they had urged McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman to stay away from each other prior to his failed presidential campaign in 2000. In its own follow-up story, The Washington Post quoted longtime aide John Weaver, who split with McCain last year, as saying he met with lobbyist Iseman and urged her to steer clear of McCain.
Neither article said McCain, 71, and Iseman, 40, each denied having a romantic relationship. Neither suggested that there was an affair and offered no evidence that there was, reporting only that aides worried about the appearance of McCain having close ties to a lobbyist with business before the Senate Commerce Committee on which McCain served.
Although McCain and Iseman long ago denied ever having an affair, the story argues that “his confidence in his own integrity has sometimes seemed to blind him to potentially embarrassing conflicts of interest.”
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