Bending the Third Rail
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Thursday, July 27, 2006
Out Of Touch
In yet one more example of a politician being totally out of touch with "commoners": (emphasis mine)

Republican Sen. Conrad Burns chastised a group of firefighters over the weekend for doing a “poor job” of squelching a 92,000-acre blaze near Billings, a state report shows.

“The toughest part of the conversation was the point where the senator was critical of a firefighter sitting across from us in the gate area,” Rosenthal's report reads. “I offered to the senator that our firefighters make around $8 to $12 an hour and time-and-a-half for overtime. He seemed a bit surprised that it wasn't higher.”
What middle class? Not to mention Burns acting like a knob by slamming people who had come from hundreds of miles away to try to keep Montana from going up like a match.
Written at 5:42 PM by Lynne.
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