and am reminded immediately that Cindy McCain, cheating heiress who has her own daddy-mobster ties, has a half-sister who was stiffed out of money by her daddy and has been completely unrecognized by her own half sister.
Kathleen Portalski was left $10,000, and her children were left nothing. It's a fact Nicholas Portalski says his sister discovered the hard way.
"What she found in town — on the day of or the day before or the day after his funeral — was that the credit card didn't work anymore," Nick says.
The Portalskis live in a modest home in central Phoenix. Kathleen is retired, as is her husband. Nicholas Portalski is a firefighter and emergency medical technician looking for work.
They say it would have been nice if they were left some of the Hensley fortune.
They also say they are Democrats, but Nicholas Portalski says he had another reason for coming forward.
"The fact that we don't exist," he says. "The fact that we've never been recognized, and then Cindy has to put such a fine point on it by saying something that's not 1. Recently, again and again. It's just very, very hurtful."
I don't know what the relationship of this half brother is to Obama, or whether they remain in touch (or, for that matter, whether Cindy Hensley will also make attempts to become buds with her angry half-sister), but I do know that trying to use THIS issue as a way to deflect attention from John McCain, the elitist who owns who knows-he-sure-doesn't how many houses is not the answer and shows a certain desperation and ugliness about Texas Republicans. And how about before the Texas Republicans run around griping about the way people treat family members they go ask Cindy Hensley why she won't publicly acknowledge her OWN half sister.
