Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: McCain ya sa ido ya zama wakili saboda yana da sha'awar abubuwan da ke faruwa a yanzu, yana shirye don sabon kalubale, kuma ya ci gaba da burin siyasa a lokacin da yake zaman majalisar dattijai. Da yake zaune a Phoenix, ya tafi aiki don Hensley & Co., sabon surukinsa Jim Hensley babban mai rarraba giya na Anheuser-Busch. A matsayin mataimakin shugaban hulda da jama'a a rarraba, ya sami goyon bayan siyasa a tsakanin 'yan kasuwa na gida, ganawa da manyan mutane kamar banki Charles Keating Jr., mai haɓaka ƙasa Fife Symington III (daga baya Gwamnan Arizona) da kuma mai buga jarida Darrow "Duke" Tully. A cikin 1982, McCain ya yi takara a matsayin ɗan Republican don kujerar buɗewa a gundumar majalisa ta 1 ta Arizona, wanda ɗan Republican mai shekaru 30 John Jacob Rhodes ke barin sa. Wani sabon shiga a jihar, an zargi McCain da laifin zama mai satar kaya. McCain ya mayar da martani ga wani mai jefa ƙuri'a da ke yin wannan zargin tare da abin da wani mai sharhi na Phoenix Gazette daga baya ya bayyana a matsayin "mafi yawan amsar da aka yi wa wata matsala ta siyasa da na taɓa ji":  Tambaya: Ina ya zauna lokacin da yake aiki ga Hensley & Co.?
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