While Republican Senator Conrad Burns flew first class, his wife was "stuck" in coach, a "salivating Democratic informant" told Roll Call.
"The informant sent the information with an accompanying nasty editorial note that said, 'Guess women really are second class to him," Roll Call's "Heard on the Hill" reports.
Last October, two Northwest Airlines flight attendants accused Burns of sexism after "he told one of the women she could stay at home and be a mother if she lost her job to outsourcing," Gannett News reported.
Roll Call reports that Burns denied sexism in both cases and suggests that the senator "wasn’t playing the big man card taking the first-class seat while making his little woman ride in the stuffy coach seat."
A normal husband would have accompanied his wife and sat next to her on the plane ride. With his busy schedule, you'd think that Burns would want to spend some extra time with his wife and catch up on family news and some time together. Doesn't he have any love and respect for his wife? I'd guess that most of the women in Montana would not like to be treated this way and will vote the jerk out of office.
