Conrad Burns - political scandal!

[cardicorgi]

I'm sure most of you know who Conrad Burns is - he is the Senator (R) from Montana who slipped in the rider last year, at the midnight hour, literally, that allowed wild horses over 10 years old (and those that had been in a holding facility for over a year, if I recall correctly) to be sold to slaughter.

He also supports continuing horse slaughter for meat.

You also might know about the Abramoff scandal (lots of fun stuff if you're a political junkie like I am - hookers, kickbacks, diry $$, screwing over Native Americans, etc.) - well, it seems ol' Connie Burns is connected to it, and is being investigated...

[ftp]http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1535551,00.html[/ftp]

What a classy, upstanding guy.

[Just Jolene]

And if anyone has some extra change lying around and wants to utilize the campaign deduction on their taxes, consider funding Jon Tester's bid to unseat him.

www.testerforsenate.com/

This guy truly is an upstanding fellow, and I hope for Montana's sake he's elected.

[cardicorgi]

I'd heard Tester was decent, and he's GOT to be an improvement on this pondscum...

I just read that Burnsie insulted a bunch of fire fighters, back in August. Who insults FIRE-MEN? Greedy corrupt jerks, I guess.

The report contained an account by Gabe Templeton, one of the Augusta Hot Shots, describing what happened to him and fellow team members Jeff Cleek and Jude Waerig. It said the three men were sitting in the Billings airport waiting for their flight when Burns approached them with an outstretched hand and asked if they were firefighters.

"I shook his hand and replied yes," Templeton wrote. "He shook my hand introduced himself and then replied, 'What a piss poor job' we were doing. I replied, 'Have a nice day.' The senator mentioned that we were 'wasting a lot of money and creating a cottage industry.' He also told us that we needed to listen more to the ranchers. I replied that 'we are pretty low on the totem pole.' Then he walked off."

[cardicorgi]

Bye-bye, Burnsie!!

www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/08/politics/main2162290.shtml

Score one for the horses!!

[schwung]

AWESOME NEWS!!!

[safehorses]

I'm thrilled ol' Burnsie is gone...but unfortunately Tester opposes a ban of horse slaughter as well. Plus, we have to get this passed before Burns leaves with the rest of them, that's if we can get the Senate to work on this before the year runs out.

[cardicorgi]

Tester does too?! Cr*p. I didn't know that.

At this point, though, perhaps he's not as beholden to the cattle industry et al as Burnsie is... time to get to work, no matter what.