DAYTON THE COWARD UPSET THAT HE CAN'T VISIT IRAQ
Dayton is trying to repair the damage caused by his decision to close his Senate office because of security concerns.
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Dayton says he was left off Iraq trip because of politics
Sen. Mark Dayton claimed Wednesday that Republicans left him off a fact-finding trip to Iraq because of partisan politics.
Dayton, D-Minn., said he suspected he was left off the Senate Armed Services Committee trip either because Republicans were targeting him for defeat in 2006, or because of his opposition to the war in Iraq.
"Both of those reasons are fundamentally wrong,'' he said in a telephone interview. "I was elected just as legitimately as any senator from any other state, and have just as much a right to visit Minnesotans in Iraq.'' [Maybe you shouldn't close your Senate office down like a corward and forget that Minnesotans elected you to represent them in Washington]
Dayton first made the allegation in a fund-raising letter sent out via e-mail Wednesday morning. In that letter, he mentioned the trip and wrote, "Already, Republicans have begun their character assassination campaign to destroy me, in order to defeat me.''
Dayton, who serves on the committee, said he was told of the trip by the panel's top Democrat, Carl Levin of Michigan. When Dayton said he hadn't been invited, Levin offered to ask the committee chairman, Virginia Republican John Warner, to include him, but to no avail.
Dayton said his follow-up attempts to get on the trip were denied by the Republican committee staff. Dayton attended an Armed Services Committee trip in July, 2003.
A spokesman for Warner, John Ullyot, declined to comment.
Dayton said he believes he's being singled out because a Democrat with less seniority than him on the committee, Evan Bayh of Indiana, was invited to participate. Source: Associated Press, December 1, 2004
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Dayton says he was left off Iraq trip because of politics
Sen. Mark Dayton claimed Wednesday that Republicans left him off a fact-finding trip to Iraq because of partisan politics.
Dayton, D-Minn., said he suspected he was left off the Senate Armed Services Committee trip either because Republicans were targeting him for defeat in 2006, or because of his opposition to the war in Iraq.
"Both of those reasons are fundamentally wrong,'' he said in a telephone interview. "I was elected just as legitimately as any senator from any other state, and have just as much a right to visit Minnesotans in Iraq.'' [Maybe you shouldn't close your Senate office down like a corward and forget that Minnesotans elected you to represent them in Washington]
Dayton first made the allegation in a fund-raising letter sent out via e-mail Wednesday morning. In that letter, he mentioned the trip and wrote, "Already, Republicans have begun their character assassination campaign to destroy me, in order to defeat me.''
Dayton, who serves on the committee, said he was told of the trip by the panel's top Democrat, Carl Levin of Michigan. When Dayton said he hadn't been invited, Levin offered to ask the committee chairman, Virginia Republican John Warner, to include him, but to no avail.
Dayton said his follow-up attempts to get on the trip were denied by the Republican committee staff. Dayton attended an Armed Services Committee trip in July, 2003.
A spokesman for Warner, John Ullyot, declined to comment.
Dayton said he believes he's being singled out because a Democrat with less seniority than him on the committee, Evan Bayh of Indiana, was invited to participate. Source: Associated Press, December 1, 2004
1 Comments:
So it sounds like you've found specific evidence about the threat to Dayton's office? Would you mind posting it so we all know for sure there wasn't actually something serious? :-) And you know, some people might say that wanting to to Iraq, where the insurgency is at it's strongest point since the beginning of the war, might make a person something other than a coward.
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