Category: Abramoff
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Man of This Land My A**
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/05/07/news/state/30-rural.txt">'Man of this land' wants to fight for rural America</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>As Conrad Burns hurtles along U.S. 87 in a Chevy Silverado truck at 80 mph, he makes a grand gesture toward the miles of unbroken prairie south of here.<br />n<br />n"I'm a man of this land," says the three-term U.S. senator from Montana.…
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Disgusting
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/23/AR2006042300870.html">Burns May Be Bouncing Back</a> (Washigton Post story free registration required)<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Polls here suggest that Burns, 71, a three-term incumbent who has been targeted by the Democrats as one of the most beatable Republicans in the Senate, may be bouncing back from the pounding he took late last year after the publication of…
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Where’s the Surprise
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/18/news/state/20-timemag.txt">Time magazine names Burns one of the worst senators</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Time magazine has named Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., one of the five worst Senate members, criticizing him for his ties to former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and calling his legislative record "meager."</blockquote><br />n<br />nEverybody is acting like this is a big surprise. I'm not surprised…
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Pull Out
I have been watching the whole Burns/Abramoff situation and have not been surprised by any of it. The <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/09/news/state/20-abramoff.txt">newest information</a> coming out on the case leads me to think only one thing. Burns needs to pull out of his re-re-election campaign and let some candidate that doesn't have such a stain on him run…