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Sununu gets some reading assistance

by: Bill Lofy

Tue Dec 11, 2007 at 13:36:36 PM EST


(Hysterical.  For more info on this atrocious vote, look here. - promoted by Dean Barker)

When Senator John E. Sununu voted last week against an energy bill that would create jobs and save New Hampshire families money, he explained his vote by saying he didn't have enough time to read the bill. According to the Associated Press, Sununu said he "had not had time to digest the bill."

To help Sununu review this and other bills that come before the Senate, the Stop Sununu campaign today mailed Senator Sununu a copy of Speed Reading the Easy Way, which we hope will help the senator hone his bill reviewing skills. The book promises readers to present "a self-teaching course that truly makes speed reading easy to master."

"Since Senator Sununu isn't going to come out and tell New Hampshire voters that he is not willing to roll back billions of dollars in tax giveaways to oil companies, he had to have some excuse for voting against the energy bill," said Stop Sununu campaign director Bill Lofy. "But you would think he could think of something better than he didn't have time to read it. Hopefully the senator's new copy of Speed Reading the Easy Way will help him digest the legislation New Hampshire voters elected him to read and understand."

"Then again," Lofy continued, "Sununu already had his marching orders from the White House and the oil industry, who vigorously opposed the bill, which would have rolled back billions of dollars in tax breaks to oil companies. Sununu could have all the time in the world to study the bill and he probably still would have voted against it. That's what happens when the oil and gas companies bankroll your campaign to the tune of $210,000."

 

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I expected Gregg and Sununu to knuckle under to the White House on this one, and their pablum about desiring vigorous debate was completely expected as well.

What surprised me was seeing Senators Bayh (D-IN) and Byrd (D-WV) on the NAY side of that cloture vote. I have to think that Big Coal twisted some arms or something. (I just assume anybody from Louisiana is in the pocket of Big Oil, so Landrieu's vote isn't a shock).



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