Strib Spanks Repubs For Lying About Wetterling In Campaign Lit

[Mister Ed]

http://www.startribune.com/587/story/690973.html

The National Republican Congressional Committee has sent two literature pieces to households in the Sixth Congressional District attacking Democrat Patty Wetterling for failing to vote in three elections.

The attacks are inaccurate. Calling them merely deceptive would be a kindness. The Wetterling campaign calls them a "lie." You decide.

The Republican National Congressional Committee has been sending out shrill-toned mailers to aid Bachmann. The mailers make a big stink about Wetterling supposedly passing up the opportunity to vote in the elections of 2000, 2002, and 2004 (as if that would disqualify anyone from holding office).

Turns out that she did vote in the general elections all three years. She just didn't vote in the primaries in 2000 and 2002. In 2004, she voted in the primary -but she didn't exercise her right to vote in her precinct caucus. As far as the Repubs are concerned, that counts as not voting in 2000, 2002, and 2004.

Sheesh.