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Originally Posted by aft_lizard01  ALBANYS INSANITY » Blog Archive » Democrat Governor caught politicizing Kansas
Something bad may be brewing, or it's just conspiracist's going wild.
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A brief summary: A source apparently close to the situation has told Quinn that Sebelius called Brownback shortly after she made the Katrina-like statement to the press to apologize. She allegedly told Brownback that she had been instructed by Howard Dean and Dick (Durbin?) to blame the fictional “lack of response” to the hurricane on the absence of National Guard troops and equipment, which had been diverted to Iraq (not true).
She said she would not have said these things “unless she had to,” and that she was told not to pass up an opportunity like this.
KS Governor Sebilius (D) said:
1. Howard Dean called me at 5AM this morning and said we needed to “use this”.
2. [Senator] Dick [Durbin] called about two hours later and told me not to ask for federal help.
3. We had “too many” National Guard personnel "
If that report is true, that is criminal. It also makes you wonder about Katrina and the lack of control which Blanco and Nagin had going into and directly after the Hurricane hit. |
WE Blog: Sebelius can speak for herself, thank you
Sebelius can speak for herself, thank you
The Quinn & Rose Show, a right-wing radio program, claimed last week that Gov. Kathleen Sebelius had been ordered by Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean to criticize the readiness of National Guard units to score political points against President Bush. It also claimed that Sebelius called Sen. Sam Brownback and apologized for having to do this dirty work for the party. The allegation was then repeated by other conservative radio programs.
The story doesn’t make much sense, since Sebelius herself has been raising the issue of Guard readiness for two years -- she doesn’t need Dean to tell her what to say.
Sebelius issued a statement saying that allegation was "100 percent false" and that she is "outraged" at the suggestion that she made Greensburg comments based on anything other than "my responsibilities as commander in chief of the Kansas National Guard."
Moreover, Brownback’s office reportedly said the call "never happened" and was "fabricated out of thin air." And a DNC attorney wrote in a cease-and-desist letter to Quinn & Rose and to an Internet site that "Dean had no such conversation with Gov. Sebelius, ever."
Of course, that won’t stop the conspiracy theorists from issuing more hot air. What a perfect storm of rubbish.
Posted by Randy Scholfield