You may have seen Jim Bunning, Republican Senator from Kentucky and hall of fame pitcher, testify in front of the House Committee on Steroids today. Bunning said that players who took steroid are "cheaters" and should "have their records wiped clean."
How can we go about wiping the results of the Kentucky Senate election clean?
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jim Bunning's re-election campaign conceded Tuesday that the senator used a TelePrompTer during his opening and closing remarks during a television debate with his Democratic opponent, Daniel Mongiardo.
Bunning campaign manager David Young said the TelePrompTer use was permitted under the terms of a debate agreement worked out in advance between the two campaigns. Mongiardo's campaign, however, called the device "an outrageous violation of the agreement."
"Jim Bunning is so out of touch with Kentucky voters that he has to use a TelePrompTer as a crutch to address their concerns," said Mongiardo campaign manager Kim Geveden. "Jim Bunning cheated in the debate, just as he is cheating Kentucky's working families."
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The two-page agreement outlining the guidelines for the debate doesn't directly address the use of TelePrompTers. It says only that candidates could not rely on "props, signs, charts, graphs, photos, audio or video playback, or other demonstrative items."
Senator Hypocrite can't remember his lines, cheats at debate
Posted by mike at March 17, 2005 11:03 PMJim Bunning's whole campaign was disgusting to me (I live in Indiana but I am about 40 minutes from Louisville). Bunning also accused his opponent of being gay and Bunning's campaign accused Mongiardo of being a doctor who made millions off of medicare. Bunning made commercials with planes and mansions that supposedly belonged to Mongiardo and then Bunning had to retract all the ads when it was found out he lied. This was one of the ugliest campaigns I have ever seen.
Posted by: Jaleh on March 21, 2005 12:53 PMtakes one to know one
Posted by: Greg on March 21, 2005 10:15 PM