Viagra-Gate: But What’s The Bigger Issue?
Published by Al Adomite on June 17th, 2008
Sometimes people wonder how campaigns get sidetracked into the obscure. But I guess I can’t complain about Hulshof’s response to this issue that was provoked by Steelman:
First, Treasurer Sarah Steelman alleged that U.S. Rep. Kenny Hulshof supports wasteful spending because he voted for a bill that would allow Medicare to fund Viagra pills for senior citizens who have a little hitch in their giddy-up. Steelman was so convinced this was a campaign winner that she mentioned it three times in a debate last Friday at the Lake of the Ozarks.
But Monday, the Hulshof camp planted its own flag on the Viagra issue, pointing out that Steelman, too, once voted for the little blue pills, and hers went to, gasp, sex offenders.
It’s not as if there’s anything else to talk about in Missouri:
The federal government predicts that 27 levees could potentially overflow along the Mississippi River if the weather forecast is on the mark and a massive sandbagging effort fails to raise the level of the levees, according to a map obtained Monday by The Associated Press. Officials are placing millions of sandbags on top of the levees along the river in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri to prevent overflowing.
They are running for Governor of Missouri, right?
Filed under State Issues
June 17th, 2008 at 10:55 am
When they don’t have a good plan to put forward, they talk about fringe issues hoping peak the interest of the voters.