Floridian McCain’s ‘right hand woman’
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 30th, 2008 4:35 am by HL
Floridian McCain’s ‘right hand woman’
The director of John McCain’s campaign in Florida got her start in politics on a whim. Arlene DiBenigno was watching the news on TV in 1988 when she saw the vice president’s son, Jeb Bush, returning to Miami from a trip to Kuwait. DeBenigno, then a 19-year-old Miami Dade Community College student, was inspired by the young Bush and decided: “I want to work for him.”