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Speakeasy: Sen. James Inhofe

By: Jeff Dufour
Editor at Large/Columnist, "Yeas & Nays"
09/22/09 12:00 AM EDT


“I do not think I have ever seen anyone since Jesse Helms who was loved by so many people as Mel Martinez.”
— Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., choosing an interesting comparison as he paid tribute to the retiring Martinez from the Senate floor last week. The late Helms, you may remember, was among the more divisive senators of the 20th century




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Jean Weingartner

Sep 22, 2009

Mel Martinez is a sell out like Charlie Crist they don't care about Fl only there careers they pander to the spanish and blacks like the President does and I pray for them they are being used like all of us.They need to wake up and see what have any of them done for them.They are still in the same shape they were before any of the Politicians claimed I'm for the poor well your still poor according to them and that has been there talk for over thirty years.WAKE UP PEOPLE.The only one holding you down is YOU.

 

kyle b.

Sep 24, 2009

Yep ole Jesse sure was loved, by the tobacco lobby, the pork lobby, the cotton lobby.... just about all of em!

 


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