...The crowd, which at times booed and baited Burns, earned a public chastising from one Burns supporter, who voiced her displeasure and asked for the rudeness to end.
Candidates addressed a range of questions posed before the debate by readers of the Ravalli Republic, including: health care, immigration, national energy policy, the $.8.5 trillion federal debt, Veterans Affairs, American troops in Iraq, and North Korea and Iran as potential nuclear powers....
“But in the end,” Tester said, “lets talk about Senator Burns' trips. Hawaii, New Orleans, Miami, Alaska, Palm Beach, Los Angeles, New York, China, Japan, Toronto, and there must have been something going on in Las Vegas because he went there 10 times.”
The crowd applauded, as Tester ran out of time while listing some of the multinational corporations he said Burns associates with, among the Fuji, the petroleum industry and big tobacco companies....
Here is the quote from Burns that will get people talking: “I believe in light bulbs and sunshine,” Burns said.
And...
This was found at The Huffington Post---
MyWayNews:
Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb has nearly erased the commanding lead Republican Sen. George Allen held six weeks ago, before Allen's insult of a man of Indian descent, according to an independent statewide poll published Sunday.
The Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. found 46 percent of those interviewed supported Allen in his bid for a second term and 42 percent backed Webb. Twelve percent were undecided.
Because the margin of error for the poll is plus or minus 4 percentage points, the race could be seen as about even...
>Then George Allen took an exact bill written by Sen. Durbin, except for a change in one word, and introduced it as his own. The Times Dispatch:
...Republican Sen. George Allen introduced an amendment yesterday to put additional millions of dollars into facilities treating soldiers and veterans suffering from brain injury. Its wording was nearly identical to a similar amendment by Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill....
...Within hours, the campaign of Allen's Democrat challenger, Jim Webb, issued by e-mail a statement that Allen "stole" Durbin's amendment and then called it his own.
Allen had used Durbin's funding figure and identical language but for one word, the Webb campaign said.
"This whole episode is shameful and not worthy of a sitting U.S. senator," Webb adviser Steve Jarding said in the statement....
Is the Republican greed for more power helping us see their true personalities?