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Sen. Craig may not resign, spokesman says
Official says decision hinges on outcomes of Minn. legal case, ethics probe
BOISE, Idaho - Sen. Larry Craig is reconsidering his decision to resign after his arrest in a Minnesota airport sex sting and may still fight for his Senate seat, his spokesman said Tuesday evening.
“It’s not such a foregone conclusion anymore, that the only thing he could do was resign,” Sidney Smith, Craig’s spokesman in Idaho’s capital, told The Associated Press.
“We’re still preparing as if Sen. Craig will resign Sept. 30, but the outcome of the legal case in Minnesota and the ethics investigation will have an impact on whether we’re able to stay in the fight — and stay in the Senate,” Smith said.
Craig, a Republican who has represented Idaho in Congress for 27 years, announced Saturday that he intends to resign from the Senate on Sept. 30. But since then, he’s hired a prominent lawyer to investigate the possibility of reversing his plea, his spokesman said.
Craig was a no-show Tuesday as Congress reconvened after a summer break and it wasn’t clear whether he’ll return at all since deciding to resign over his guilty plea in a sex sting this summer at the Minneapolis airport.
Another spokesman, Dan Whiting in Washington, said Tuesday that Craig was expected to spend the week in Idaho as the Senate votes on spending bills for veterans and other programs. Whiting did not rule out Craig’s returning to Washington before the end of the month.
Specter urges Craig to fight
A telephone call Craig received last week from Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., urging him to consider fighting for his seat is affecting Craig’s decision to reconsider his resignation, Smith said.
“It was a little more cut and dried a few days ago,” Smith said. “There weren’t many options. He was basically going to have to step aside. Now, there’s a little more to it.”
On Tuesday, Specter, senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested Craig’s GOP colleagues who pressured him last week to resign should re-examine the facts surrounding his arrest June 11.
“The more people take a look at the situation, there may well be second thoughts,” said Specter, a former prosecutor. If Craig had not pleaded guilty in August to a reduced charge and instead demanded a trial, “I believe he would have been exonerated,” Specter said.
Craig gave up his senior positions on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and the Appropriations veterans subcommittee last week, at the request of Senate Republican leaders. The Senate began debating the veterans spending bill Tuesday.
Craig came under a steady drumbeat of criticism from Republicans in the days before he announced that for the good of the people of Idaho, he would step down Sept. 30.
'Unforgivable' actions?
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called Craig’s actions “unforgivable” after the White House termed the situation disappointing. Republican Senate colleagues John McCain of Arizona and Norm Coleman of Minnesota said Craig should resign.
With Republicans defending nearly twice as many seats as Democrats in 2008, Nevada Sen. John Ensign, chairman of the Senate GOP’s election effort, said he would resign if he were in Craig’s circumstances but stopped short of saying the Idahoan should give up his seat. Craig’s third six-year term in the Senate expires in January 2009.
Republican Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter has not named Craig’s successor and has not said when he will. Lt. Gov. Jim Risch, also a Republican, is considered the front-runner for the job.
Billy Martin, one of Craig’s lawyers, said the senator’s arrest in an undercover police operation in a men’s room of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport “raises very serious constitutional questions.”
Martin, who represents Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick in his dogfighting case, said Craig “has the right to pursue any and all legal remedies available as he begins the process of trying to clear his good name.”
Senator denies charges
Craig contended throughout last week he had done nothing wrong and said his only mistake was pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge.
Craig has hired a high-powered crisis management team that includes Martin; communications adviser Judy Smith; Washington attorney Stan Brand, a former general counsel to the U.S. House; and Minneapolis attorney Tom Kelly.
Brand, who represented Major League Baseball in the congressional investigation into steroid use, will handle any Senate Ethics Committee investigation of Craig, while Kelly will assist the legal case in Minnesota.
McConnell disputed that there was a double standard in how GOP leaders reacted to Craig’s case and to the admission in July by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., that his telephone number showed up in 1999, 2000 and 2001 phone bills of an escort service that federal authorities say was a prostitution ring.
In Vitter’s case, “there have been no charges made,” McConnell said, adding that the alleged wrongdoing occurred before Vitter was a senator.
Craig, by contrast, pleaded guilty to a crime, McConnell said. “The legal case was, in effect, over. At that point, the question was for the Republican leadership, what would be our reaction to it,” he said.
Craig's children support him
All three of Craig’s adopted children said Tuesday they believe their father’s assertions he is not gay and did nothing to warrant his arrest.
Jay Craig, 33, told The Associated Press that he, his brother, Michael Craig, 38, and his sister, Shae Howell, 36, spoke candidly with their father about the June 11 arrest.
“Our conclusion was there was no wrongdoing there,” Jay Craig said. “We understood the direction he was taking (by pleading guilty) and there was nothing illegal that happened there that would even convince somebody what he was doing was illegal. He was a victim of circumstance, in the wrong place at the wrong time when this sting operation was going on.”
In a separate interview on Tuesday, with ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Michael Craig used similar language about his father.
Larry Craig adopted Michael and his two siblings after marrying their mother, the former Suzanne Scott, in 1983. Craig has worked in the Senate to promote adoption.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20593999/?gt1=10357
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| dithers wrote: | | dithers wrote: | | constantpeace wrote: | Dithers, I'm an independent - but it always cracks me up when the other party (whether Dem or Rep) brings up crap from the past. Neither Kennedy (45 years ago) or Craig (2 months ago) deserve a medal for their behavior. But in terms of hypocrisy, Craig (in 2007) wins hands down. Kennedy could have been brought up on criminal charges, but American LE chose not to (IMO). He did not consistently vote against extra-marital sex while indulging in it - that to me is the hypocrisy. More of the "do as I say, not as I do."
ps. don't beat me up too hard, I'm a lurker, LOL. |
As James Taranto would say - MaryJo Kopechne is unavailable for comment. |
Apparently you're expecting a tongue lashing from me. Since I must have a reputation to live up to I'll have to go back and noodle on this some more. I wouldn't want to disappoint you. LOL
BTW - I didn't mean the hypocrisy came from Craig or Kennedy. I meant the hyprocrisy is coming from those who are so incensed over Craig compared to not being incensed over Kennedy.
And I bring Kennedy's past up not because he is a Democrat but because he is responsible for a young woman losing her life. LE did not charge Kennedy as he should have been charged because of his family connections. Additionally, if the public had demanded it, it would have happened. It's doubtful in today's world he would get the same break which is where the hyprocisy comes in because there is no statute of limitations on murder. At the very least, he should not be allowed to serve as a U.S. Senator.
I would much rather see a man lie about extramarital sex (can anyone say Bill Clinton?) than a married man who leaves a young woman to die alone in a submerged car. |
OK, I have to add my two cents worth. With the exception of Bobby, I was never a Kennedy fan, however, Teddy Kennedy has worked diligently for the past 45 years to pass legislation that help families and the little people.
I believe that we should not be involved in our elected officials' sex lives. No one is perfect. Yes, Kennedy had extra-marital affairs. Big deal, that's for the wife to object to, not me. Yes, he probably drank too much.
I do not however believe that Chappaquiddick was anything but an unfortunate accident where all parties had consumed too much alcohol including Mary Jo Kopechne. Those young women certainly knew that the men were all married men. They weren't innocents. His attempt to save her failed. She died, and he will live with this for his entire life. I would not presume that this man does not suffer from what happened. I know that I would, but why are we raking him over the coals 45 years later when the laws for DUI are so very different than they were. Sure he had connections, many people do. Wealthy people and politicians all have connections but it does not mean that he was a willful murderer because he was drunk and made the wrong turn in the middle of the night.
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But the Kennedys were as political Gods. Jackie was our Princess Di.
Good thing the Germans take politics seriously:
A massive jihadi terrorist attack on US citizens was reportedly prevented today
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5im4a5-BomORMAhky31qsmCGutRSg
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| Quote: | yankee-in-france
OK, I have to add my two cents worth. With the exception of Bobby, I was never a Kennedy fan, however, Teddy Kennedy has worked diligently for the past 45 years to pass legislation that help families and the little people.
I believe that we should not be involved in our elected officials' sex lives. No one is perfect. Yes, Kennedy had extra-marital affairs. Big deal, that's for the wife to object to, not me. Yes, he probably drank too much.
I do not however believe that Chappaquiddick was anything but an unfortunate accident where all parties had consumed too much alcohol including Mary Jo Kopechne. Those young women certainly knew that the men were all married men. They weren't innocents. His attempt to save her failed. She died, and he will live with this for his entire life. I would not presume that this man does not suffer from what happened. I know that I would, but why are we raking him over the coals 45 years later when the laws for DUI are so very different than they were. Sure he had connections, many people do. Wealthy people and politicians all have connections but it does not mean that he was a willful murderer because he was drunk and made the wrong turn in the middle of the night. |
Your tortured logic to arrive at forgiveness for this man is so outrageous that I'm not even going to bother responding in depth.
The DUI laws certainly weren't what they are today but they also weren't that lax back then. There were plenty of people who thought he should be severely punished and sent to prison.
Chappaquiddick happened in 1969. George Bush's DUI was in 1976. To this day Kennedy continues to be a heavy boozer and GWB became a tee-totaler. As far as I know Bush's incident didn't even involve an accident, let alone someone losing their life. I'm reminded of the way all the libs and the media hooted and hollered about that DUI during the election (including you if I remember correctly). Now that is what I call the height of hypocrisy.
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Hypocrisy = Ted Kennedy favoring alternative energy sources but being a NIMBY when it comes to his opposition of the Cape Wind wind turbine project.
| Quote: | The Cape Wind Project is a proposed offshore wind farm on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound off Cape Cod in Massachusetts. If the project moves forward on schedule, it will become one of the first offshore wind farms in the United States.
A 2007 public opinion survey found that more than four out of five Massachusetts residents (84 percent) -- including 58 percent of those who live on the Cape and on the Islands -- explicitly support "the proposed Cape Wind offshore wind farm that would involve wind turbines being placed in Nantucket Sound about five and a half miles from the Town of Hyannis." A June 2006 survey posed the same question and found 81 percent support statewide and 61 percent in Cape Cod/the Islands.
A recent book by Wendy Williams argues that the fight over Cape Wind involves a powerful, privileged minority imposing their will on the majority. |
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| dithers wrote: | | Quote: | yankee-in-france
OK, I have to add my two cents worth. With the exception of Bobby, I was never a Kennedy fan, however, Teddy Kennedy has worked diligently for the past 45 years to pass legislation that help families and the little people.
I believe that we should not be involved in our elected officials' sex lives. No one is perfect. Yes, Kennedy had extra-marital affairs. Big deal, that's for the wife to object to, not me. Yes, he probably drank too much.
I do not however believe that Chappaquiddick was anything but an unfortunate accident where all parties had consumed too much alcohol including Mary Jo Kopechne. Those young women certainly knew that the men were all married men. They weren't innocents. His attempt to save her failed. She died, and he will live with this for his entire life. I would not presume that this man does not suffer from what happened. I know that I would, but why are we raking him over the coals 45 years later when the laws for DUI are so very different than they were. Sure he had connections, many people do. Wealthy people and politicians all have connections but it does not mean that he was a willful murderer because he was drunk and made the wrong turn in the middle of the night. |
Your tortured logic to arrive at forgiveness for this man is so outrageous that I'm not even going to bother responding in depth.
The DUI laws certainly weren't what they are today but they also weren't that lax back then. There were plenty of people who thought he should be severely punished and sent to prison.
Chappaquiddick happened in 1969. George Bush's DUI was in 1976. To this day Kennedy continues to be a heavy boozer and GWB became a tee-totaler. As far as I know Bush's incident didn't even involve an accident, let alone someone losing their life. I'm reminded of the way all the libs and the media hooted and hollered about that DUI during the election (including you if I remember correctly). Now that is what I call the height of hypocrisy. |
I never mentioned Bush's DUI, but it merely illustrates what I said. People have connections and they use them. I don't think that I ever heard Ted Kennedy be judgmental of another person. I think Bush pontificates frequently. I am more wary of the goody-goodies than I am of the bad boys and girls.
However, how has Bush been drawn into this conversation and why?
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Good question.
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What, we can't talk about the elephants in the room? 
Only about Schrodinger's cat? 
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Damn media!
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| yankee-in-france wrote: | | dithers wrote: | | Quote: | yankee-in-france
OK, I have to add my two cents worth. With the exception of Bobby, I was never a Kennedy fan, however, Teddy Kennedy has worked diligently for the past 45 years to pass legislation that help families and the little people.
I believe that we should not be involved in our elected officials' sex lives. No one is perfect. Yes, Kennedy had extra-marital affairs. Big deal, that's for the wife to object to, not me. Yes, he probably drank too much.
I do not however believe that Chappaquiddick was anything but an unfortunate accident where all parties had consumed too much alcohol including Mary Jo Kopechne. Those young women certainly knew that the men were all married men. They weren't innocents. His attempt to save her failed. She died, and he will live with this for his entire life. I would not presume that this man does not suffer from what happened. I know that I would, but why are we raking him over the coals 45 years later when the laws for DUI are so very different than they were. Sure he had connections, many people do. Wealthy people and politicians all have connections but it does not mean that he was a willful murderer because he was drunk and made the wrong turn in the middle of the night. |
Your tortured logic to arrive at forgiveness for this man is so outrageous that I'm not even going to bother responding in depth.
The DUI laws certainly weren't what they are today but they also weren't that lax back then. There were plenty of people who thought he should be severely punished and sent to prison.
Chappaquiddick happened in 1969. George Bush's DUI was in 1976. To this day Kennedy continues to be a heavy boozer and GWB became a tee-totaler. As far as I know Bush's incident didn't even involve an accident, let alone someone losing their life. I'm reminded of the way all the libs and the media hooted and hollered about that DUI during the election (including you if I remember correctly). Now that is what I call the height of hypocrisy. |
I never mentioned Bush's DUI, but it merely illustrates what I said. People have connections and they use them. I don't think that I ever heard Ted Kennedy be judgmental of another person. I think Bush pontificates frequently. I am more wary of the goody-goodies than I am of the bad boys and girls.
However, how has Bush been drawn into this conversation and why? |
Because you said DUI was looked upon differently in years past than it is today. And I was remarking that it was hypocritical to rake Bush over the coals for his DUI but almost give TK a free pass on what he did - which is what you were attempting to do.
Also to both YIF and Schez - why the big question mark so suddenly about Bush becoming part of the conversation? I brought Kennedy up and neither of you asked how he entered the conversation.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Larry Craig had already decided not to seek re-election before revelations that he pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a Minnesota sex sting, two of the Idaho Republican's political advisers claimed Thursday.
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Because you said DUI was looked upon differently in years past than it is today. And I was remarking that it was hypocritical to rake Bush over the coals for his DUI but almost give TK a free pass on what he did - which is what you were attempting to do.
Also to both YIF and Schez - why the big question mark so suddenly about Bush becoming part of the conversation? I brought Kennedy up and neither of you asked how he entered the conversation. |
TK's Presidential aspirations were pretty much sealed on that fateful July night.
It is too bad that the same can't be said for Dubya's drunk driving escapades. JMO
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| pax wrote: | | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Larry Craig had already decided not to seek re-election before revelations that he pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a Minnesota sex sting, two of the Idaho Republican's political advisers claimed Thursday. |
Poor Mrs. Craig! She looks like she wants to be anywhere but there.
Hasn't she heard of running away from HIS home?
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| Schmerty wrote: | | pax wrote: | | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Larry Craig had already decided not to seek re-election before revelations that he pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a Minnesota sex sting, two of the Idaho Republican's political advisers claimed Thursday. |
Poor Mrs. Craig! She looks like she wants to be anywhere but there.
Hasn't she heard of running away from HIS home? |
Being gossiped about your spouse's tribulations regarding bribes & kickbacks may be common in the Political society sector, but I think the chatter of your husband cavorting in public restrooms may still be cause for consternation. 
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Likewise starting a war against the wrong people.
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| dithers wrote: | | yankee-in-france wrote: | | dithers wrote: | | Quote: | yankee-in-france
OK, I have to add my two cents worth. With the exception of Bobby, I was never a Kennedy fan, however, Teddy Kennedy has worked diligently for the past 45 years to pass legislation that help families and the little people.
I believe that we should not be involved in our elected officials' sex lives. No one is perfect. Yes, Kennedy had extra-marital affairs. Big deal, that's for the wife to object to, not me. Yes, he probably drank too much.
I do not however believe that Chappaquiddick was anything but an unfortunate accident where all parties had consumed too much alcohol including Mary Jo Kopechne. Those young women certainly knew that the men were all married men. They weren't innocents. His attempt to save her failed. She died, and he will live with this for his entire life. I would not presume that this man does not suffer from what happened. I know that I would, but why are we raking him over the coals 45 years later when the laws for DUI are so very different than they were. Sure he had connections, many people do. Wealthy people and politicians all have connections but it does not mean that he was a willful murderer because he was drunk and made the wrong turn in the middle of the night. |
Your tortured logic to arrive at forgiveness for this man is so outrageous that I'm not even going to bother responding in depth.
The DUI laws certainly weren't what they are today but they also weren't that lax back then. There were plenty of people who thought he should be severely punished and sent to prison.
Chappaquiddick happened in 1969. George Bush's DUI was in 1976. To this day Kennedy continues to be a heavy boozer and GWB became a tee-totaler. As far as I know Bush's incident didn't even involve an accident, let alone someone losing their life. I'm reminded of the way all the libs and the media hooted and hollered about that DUI during the election (including you if I remember correctly). Now that is what I call the height of hypocrisy. |
I never mentioned Bush's DUI, but it merely illustrates what I said. People have connections and they use them. I don't think that I ever heard Ted Kennedy be judgmental of another person. I think Bush pontificates frequently. I am more wary of the goody-goodies than I am of the bad boys and girls.
However, how has Bush been drawn into this conversation and why? |
Because you said DUI was looked upon differently in years past than it is today. And I was remarking that it was hypocritical to rake Bush over the coals for his DUI but almost give TK a free pass on what he did - which is what you were attempting to do.
Also to both YIF and Schez - why the big question mark so suddenly about Bush becoming part of the conversation? I brought Kennedy up and neither of you asked how he entered the conversation. |
Stop reading more into what I wrote, Dithers:
"Because you said DUI was looked upon differently in years past than it is today."
I was responding to your comments that TK belonged in prison, etc. In 1969, he would not have gone to jail. IMO. Bush's DUI was not in my thoughts whatsoever and that was many years ago as well. The law has changed since his DUI as well.
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| Quote: | YIF wrote:
I was responding to your comments that TK belonged in prison, etc. In 1969, he would not have gone to jail. |
Beg to differ with you there YIF. Yes, people did go to prison back then for such things and many wanted to see that happen to Kennedy at the time.
My cousin was killed by a drunk driver running a red light in 1960 and the guy was sent to prison for 5 years. Certainly not the same sentence he would have gotten in today's world but make no mistake, this stuff wasn't just shoved under the sofa back then. Well, in TK's case it was.
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From a past James Taranto column (2006)
Stranger Than Fiction
What do the senior senator from Massachusetts and quadruple murderer Stanley "Tookie" Williams have in common? The Associated Press provides one answer:
Meet the latest children's author, Sen. Ted Kennedy, and his Portuguese Water Dog, Splash, his co-protagonist in "My Senator and Me: A Dogs-Eye View of Washington, D.C."
Scholastic Inc. will release the book in May.
So Ted Kennedy has a dog named Splash? How witty.
Mary Jo Kopechne's children could not be reached for comment.
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| dithers wrote: | From a past James Taranto column (2006)
Stranger Than Fiction
What do the senior senator from Massachusetts and quadruple murderer Stanley "Tookie" Williams have in common? The Associated Press provides one answer:
Meet the latest children's author, Sen. Ted Kennedy, and his Portuguese Water Dog, Splash, his co-protagonist in "My Senator and Me: A Dogs-Eye View of Washington, D.C."
Scholastic Inc. will release the book in May.
So Ted Kennedy has a dog named Splash? How witty.
Mary Jo Kopechne's children could not be reached for comment. |
Barney (dog)
From Wikipedia,
Barney (born September 30, 2000 in New Jersey, U.S.A.), often referred to as the "First Dog," is a Scottish Terrier owned by U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.
The canine's mother, "Coors", is owned by former Environmental Protection Agency Director Christine Todd Whitman. The dog's father is known only as "Kelly".
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Be a Presidential Agency Director Appointee ~ Give Dubya a dog right before he is (s)elected President in 2000.
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Christine Todd Whitman later wrote a book about how difficult it was serving with a bunch of extremists.
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| pax wrote: | | Christine Todd Whitman later wrote a book about how difficult it was serving with a bunch of extremists. |
I'm still laughing that a Governor of New Jersey was ever appointed EPA Administrator.
from wiki:
Whitman retains her maiden name of Todd in part to continue the connection with Republican voters. Whitman is related by marriage to the Bush family; her brother, Webster B. Todd, married Sheila O'Keefe, the stepdaughter of James Wear Walker, whose sister Dorothy Walker Bush was the mother of George H.W. Bush and grandmother of George W. Bush.
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| resigned wrote: | | pax wrote: | | Christine Todd Whitman later wrote a book about how difficult it was serving with a bunch of extremists. |
I'm still laughing that a Governor of New Jersey was ever appointed EPA Administrator.
from wiki:
Whitman retains her maiden name of Todd in part to continue the connection with Republican voters. Whitman is related by marriage to the Bush family; her brother, Webster B. Todd, married Sheila O'Keefe, the stepdaughter of James Wear Walker, whose sister Dorothy Walker Bush was the mother of George H.W. Bush and grandmother of George W. Bush. |
  Wanna run that by me again? 
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| tulsad
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| resigned wrote: | | pax wrote: | | Christine Todd Whitman later wrote a book about how difficult it was serving with a bunch of extremists. |
I'm still laughing that a Governor of New Jersey was ever appointed EPA Administrator.
Comic relief?? 
from wiki:
Whitman retains her maiden name of Todd in part to continue the connection with Republican voters. Whitman is related by marriage to the Bush family; her brother, Webster B. Todd, married Sheila O'Keefe, the stepdaughter of James Wear Walker, whose sister Dorothy Walker Bush was the mother of George H.W. Bush and grandmother of George W. Bush. |
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Sparkly Tree
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| resigned
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| tulsad wrote: | | resigned wrote: | | pax wrote: | | Christine Todd Whitman later wrote a book about how difficult it was serving with a bunch of extremists. |
I'm still laughing that a Governor of New Jersey was ever appointed EPA Administrator.
Comic relief??
from wiki:
Whitman retains her maiden name of Todd in part to continue the connection with Republican voters. Whitman is related by marriage to the Bush family; her brother, Webster B. Todd, married Sheila O'Keefe, the stepdaughter of James Wear Walker, whose sister Dorothy Walker Bush was the mother of George H.W. Bush and grandmother of George W. Bush. |
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Make it a Coors light.
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Click your heels together...
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