Posted by
Husker Neocon on Wednesday, July 04, 2007 2:19:28 PM
On Tuesday, July 3, 2007, Senator Chuck Hagel held a "town hall" meeting at the Kimball Recital Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.
The Lincoln Journal Star reports :
"Sen. Chuck Hagel was greeted by a friendly audience Tuesday as he detailed his opposition to Iraq policy before 300 participants at a town hall meeting. Those in the audience who may have disagreed with the embattled Republican senator on Iraq or immigration policy did not speak up."
This is no surprise, because nobody heard that this "town hall meeting" was taking place. The first that I heard about it was on Tuesday at around 11:00AM. Nobody knew about this amongst conservatives that I spoke to.
During the speaking engagement, where Hagel also took some questions, Hagel made the following statements:
"Are you willing to give up some of your tax cuts?” he asked. Or insist that supplies of titanium be diverted from the golf industry so it can be placed on “some kid’s Humvee” to provide protective armor." [What the Hell is he talking about? Is the Golf industry really hurting the production of body armor? No!]
"It doesn’t matter that “polls have not been with me and my own party has not been with me” on Iraq or immigration reform, he said."
Hagel said “there were no terrorists in Iraq before we got there,” Saddam Hussein never was a direct threat to the United States and “history will not be kind to this administration.”
To his credit, Attorney General Jon Brunning said afterwards
:"Conservative Nebraskans are frustrated that he has repeatedly voted with Harry Reid and the Democrats in favor of strict timetables for early surrender.”
The fact that Hagel packed the audience with "Friends of Hagel" made this a bogus publicity stunt to keep his name in the news. The fact that Hagel could find 300 people in Nebraska to come and support him is actually something I should give him credit for.
Unfortunately the rest of Nebraska was busy working, and couldn't take time off on an hours notice to give Hagel some tough questions and hold him to task.
Fellow Husker Conservatives go to
http://www.jonbruning.com/ and let Jon Brunning know to keep up the fight against a RINO Republican, who has not represented the vast numbers of conservatives in this state.