"COUNTDOWN TO A FLIP-FLOP" #8

Republican Minnesota has been leading the charge against Hatch for using an expletive to describe Marianne Short, a lawyer involved with Hatch's failed attempt to sue Medica.

Hatch's answers to questions about the incident have been inconsistent:

"I'd do it again" - Mike Hatch when describing his version of using foul language to describe Marianne Short, a former appea[l]s court judge. (Source, Midmorning with Keri Miller, August 23, 2005) Source: Republican Minnesota

But then Hatch claims he didn't use it, or did he claim his did?

"That setback, however, has been eclipsed by repercussions from Hatch's conversation with Rice, about which Marianne Short questioned Hatch during the trial.

Short, a former state Court of Appeals judge and daughter of the late DFL businessman and politician Bob Short, asked Hatch if he recalled using two expletives in referring to her.

'No, nope, I did not,' Hatch replied.

Short: 'You did not use that language?

Hatch: 'No, absolutely not. I did use the word ..... but not as a noun, as a verb.'" Source: Star Tribune, October 20, 2005