Friday, May 06, 2005

And speaking of paid vacations

With the most recent version of Travelgate speeding through Congress faster than the Concorde, Central Florida's own Tom Feeney is at least taking the time to apologize for his role in the brewing scandal.

No, not to the voters who elected him, silly. To the real victims in all this: the lobbyists.

[...]

In the letter to Karen Rotterman, Chief of Staff Jason Roe wrote: "I cannot tell you how sorry I am that you were mentioned in the story. As you know, the current environment in Washington is such that reporters are in such a frenzy to write anything about Members' of Congress travel that anything not done absolutely correctly seems newsworthy to them."

[...]

"All this is, is media hysteria," he said. "The media think people care about this. They don't."

  Orlando Sentinel article

Aw. Well, he's probably right.

Where else do we know Tom Feeney?

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