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KLINE CAMPAIGN: ROWLEY CAUGHT LYING
By Michael B. Brodkorb | June 30, 2006
I just received this press release from Congressman John Kline's campaign.
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"Attached is a copy of a letter from Congressman John Kline that was delivered to Coleen Rowley regarding a false allegation she is making on her webpage, a press release and her own personal blog.
Coleen Rowley continues to claim Congressman Kline said that he supports placing troops on the Mexican border. This is a lie.
Her poor judgment and unprofessional behavior continues to damage Coleen Rowley’s campaign for Congress." Source: John Kline for Congress press release, June 30, 2006
Click here to view the letter from Congressman John Kline to Coleen Rowley.
Topics: Coleen Rowley, John Kline |
June 30th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Didn’t Kline vote in favor of the Goode Amendent to HR 4200 in 2004?
June 30th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Indeed he did: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2004/roll196.xml
Seems to me, the one doing the lying is not Colleen Rowley.
June 30th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
From Americans for Better Immigration:
2005: Voted against H. Amdt. 206 to H.R. 1815 to authorize troops on the border Rep. Kline voted against authorizing the Secretary of Defense to assign members of the military, under certain conditions, to assist in the performance of border control functions. H. Amdt. 206 passed the House by a vote of 245-184.
July 1st, 2006 at 12:27 am
Any of you frequent contributors to the MDE echo chamber care to opine on how it is that Colleen Rowley is lying? I mean, I can’t wait to hear how his VOTING RECORD is not indicitive of where he stands on an issue.
July 1st, 2006 at 12:28 am
…and the MDE appology should be an interesting read as well.
July 1st, 2006 at 7:54 am
Roving Reporter says Kline’s voting record is indicitive on where Kline stands on an issue. Here it is:
2005: Voted against H. Amdt. 206 to H.R. 1815 to authorize troops on the border Rep. Kline voted against authorizing the Secretary of Defense to assign members of the military, under certain conditions, to assist in the performance of border control functions. H. Amdt. 206 passed the House by a vote of 245-184.
July 1st, 2006 at 9:31 am
Who cares how he voted in 2005. In 2004, he voted to send troops to the border. Since we all know that once a politician says something, that is what they believe forever, John Kline’s vote in 2004 sealed his fate as being in favor of sending troops to the border.
(And, for the record, something fishy is up with Chris’ post, as it was not posted before ANY of my earlier posts, but now somehow it appeared right in the middle)
July 1st, 2006 at 1:22 pm
July 2nd, 2006 at 12:10 am
Gee, Chris. Is that weird collection of keystrokes code for admitting defeat?
Honestly. You all demand accountability, but when one of yours is caught so blatantly lying, you all clam up. What’s up with that?
July 3rd, 2006 at 9:27 pm
RR said “Who cares how he voted in 2005. In 2004, he voted to send troops to the border.”
Huh???? Who cares how he voted in 2005????? So are you saying the only vote that counts is the one that you agree with or the one you want to count????
Look, what the Rowley campaign did was attribute a specific quote to the Congressman. Not a vote, a quote. Ms. Rowley’s campaign needs to source the quote or they need to drop the claim.
Now if they wanted to point to the votes, that would be a different story - but they are not…and that is why they are in trouble!
July 7th, 2006 at 10:44 am
Just so you Rowley apologists know, her campaign put out a retraction earlier this week because she was indeed “lying” about something Congressman Kline said.