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NH-02: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

by: Dean Barker

Tue Oct 19, 2010 at 06:24:35 AM EDT
It's worth noting that Team Bass has not refuted the evidence showing that Bass did meet with Secretary of Energy Bodman about the biomass rebate, despite his clear denial last week.  
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I wish we could tie the small fact (4.00 / 1)
that he used connections to funnel money into a family business with the larger fact that "sick of washington" Bass left office and jumped into a lobbyist firm with all the usual suspects (including Tabasco Tad).  


Speaking of Tad. . . . (4.00 / 1)
I'm intrigued by Mr. Furtado's new career as director of an executive coaching agency.  Not sure how he's qualified for this gig, although I imagine he could provide sound guidance on crisis development and sexual harassment damage control (not!).  He also might have learned a thing or two from his all-expenses-paid trip to Enron Headquarters in the April 2001, where Charlie's Legislative Director met with senior executives just months before Bass voted Enron a $254 million tax cut.

Am a little curious about the "significant legislative bills and amendments" that Furtado allegedly authored on Capitol Hill.  (Hey Tad - Blue Hampshire comments, while important, do not qualify.)  

Most of all, I'm looking forward to reading Tad's "first novel."  No doubt his career as a Bass political aide served as a valuable training for his career in fiction writing.

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"So what's the point? He was doing constituent service." (4.00 / 1)
"Obviously the Congressional Record is the Congressional Record," Tranchemontagne said.
 

www.KusterforCongress.com - www.paulhodesforsenate.com

www.nikitsongas.com - www.devalpatrick.com
Same Old Charlie Bass (4.00 / 2)
In the Monitor today, they point out the following:

Bass has said on the campaign trail that he expects if he is elected to rejoin the Energy and Commerce Committee with 12 years of seniority.

Is it me, or is there something wrong with Charlie Bass saying he wants back on a committee with influence over policy affecting a business on whose board he sits, and through which he has made a small fortune? Does he have no concept of the term "conflict of interest"?

No, of course not, if he did, he never would have lobbied the energy secretary on a matter involving his nephew's business, or invested in that business.

I also can't believe he is telling people to vote for him because he thinks he will get his 12 years seniority back. Right, bring us back to the Bush years, Charlie. And what is with that sense of entitlement?

Monitor link: http://www.concordmonitor.com/...



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

IOKIYAR n/t (0.00 / 0)


6 days till election day
Have you knocked on doors today? Have you made calls ? Have you talked to your neighbors ?  
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Yet Another Bass Lie (4.00 / 1)
Charlie does not have "12 years of seniority" on the Energy and Commerce Committee.  He did not join that body until 2001 and was removed from Congress in 2006.

Not as significant as Kathy's argument, but Charlie's fibs are becoming an increasingly disturbing trend. . . .

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and yet again he's just wrong (4.00 / 2)
the Republicans in Congress ended strict seniority on their side, they add in blind loyalty ..I just think Charlie is stuck in the pre-intertubes mindset...'no one will know, and if they find out we can just deny it and attack them as tax and spend liberals'. Why not it worked six times...

6 days till election day
Have you knocked on doors today? Have you made calls ? Have you talked to your neighbors ?  
[ Parent ]
Hey, you know what? Conservatives do not believe in change. n/t (4.00 / 2)

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