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I'd still rather go hunting with Vice President Cheney than take a driving tour of Martha's Vineyard with Teddy Kennedy.
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what a ing deuche
I'd still rather go hunting with Vice President Cheney than take a driving tour of Martha's Vineyard with Teddy Kennedy.
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She’s a real beauty, can’t wait till lawyer season...
What is going to happen if the President chokes on a pretzel and the VP is doin' time for trying to knock off a lawyer?
In all seriousness, this just made me smirk a little. Nothing to get too riled up over.
February 13, 2006
Hunting Victim Patriarch of Texas GOP
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 2:21 p.m. ET
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The man accidentally shot by Vice President Cheney is an avid hunter and a longtime Republican activist who owns the downtown building where the GOP's rise to power in Texas was in large part engineered.
Harry Whittington, 78, was in stable condition at a Corpus Christi hospital Monday, recovering from birdshot wounds after he was shot on Saturday on a South Texas ranch.
Whittington, a lawyer, owns the Vaughn building in Austin, which has hosted Republican campaign headquarters for decades. George W. Bush used the building for his gubernatorial campaigns, current Texas Gov. Rick Perry is there now, and Karl Rove, the architect of Bush's rise to the presidency, used to have an office there as well.
Over the years, the party evolved from minor player to the dominant force in the state. Every statewide elected official in Texas is a Republican.
''Anyone who's been involved in Republican politics in 20 years knows and respects Harry Whittington,'' Republican consultant Ray Sullivan said. ''Twenty years ago there were very few prominent Republicans in Texas and even fewer in Austin. He was a Texas Republican long before it was cool.''
Bill Crocker, a member of the Republican National Committee, said he has been hunting with Whittington before. He described Whittington as a safety-conscious hunter and a good shot.
Whittington's friends also said he has great sense of humor and will probably crack a lot of jokes about the accident.
''I cannot wait to hear his take on this,'' Crocker said.
Whittington has been in Texas politics nearly a half-century.
In 1961, he worked on John Tower's campaign for the Senate and later helped a young George W. Bush run Congress, a race he lost.
He has been a go-to guy for governors trying to clean up troubled state agencies and has served on state boards for nearly 30 years.
In the 1980s, Republican Gov. Bill Clements appointed him to the old Texas Board of Corrections, which oversaw a state prison system a federal judge had declared uncons utional because of brutal conditions. Whittington became an advocate for change.
Whittington also has been an advocate of the rights of mentally re ed inmates.
In addition, he served on the Texas Bond Review Board and Texas Public Finance Authority, which oversaw state bond issues.
''He's the perfect person to come in and fix a bad situation,'' Sullivan said.
In 1999, Bush appointed him to lead a restructured Texas Funeral Services Commission, which was embroiled in a whistleblower lawsuit filed by former executive director Eliza May. She alleged she was fired because of her investigation into SCI, the world's largest funeral company.
The lawsuit was settled in 2001. Whittington's term is set to expire next year.
He has also contributed $3,000 to Bush's two campaigns for president.
Locally, Whittington is also known as the attorney who had the patience to take on City Hall. The city condemned a downtown block owned by his family to build a parking garage. Whittington has waged a six-year legal battle that has so far halted the project.
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Associated Press Writer Kelley Shannon in Austin contributed to this report.
* Copyright 2006 The Associated Press
is that how they (rush, hannity, and your right-wing bloggers) are telling you to spin this story?
What's to spin? It was a freakin' hunting accident. Jeeze Louise!
I have to agree. This is a story to laugh at and move on.
thought he was a wittle wabbit!
thought he was a wittle wabbit!
No, he thought he was a --
I can't wait to see how Leno treats this one tonight...
It would be a bigger deal if he was running in 08.
P-O-T-A-T-O-E
I am so taping the "Daily Show" tonight. This ranks up with the pretzel and Bush murdering the "Fool me once, shame on me..." saying.
Here's a good reference point: Cheney was 30 ft from Mr. Whittington shooting a 7.5 shot...
i'm going to be the first person to say something humane about the incident.....My prayers go out to Harry Whittington, I wish him a speedy recovery.
Thanks buddy. I am doing better already!
How does the Vice-President have time to go hunting? Aren't we in the middle of a war? Isn't this a time of such crisis that our very liberties are nothing but mere luxuries that we must set aside to protect ourselves?
There is so much immediate and impending danger that the VP has time to hunt for quail....
How does the Vice-President have time to go hunting? Aren't we in the middle of a war? Isn't this a time of such crisis that our very liberties are nothing but mere luxuries that we must set aside to protect ourselves?
There is so much immediate and impending danger that the VP has time to hunt for quail....
And BIG ASS QUAIL TOO...
That SUM !
This wouldn't have happened if Cheney had a heart.
We've run out of innocent Iraqi civilians, so Cheney has to quench his lust for blood on Texas lawyers I guessHow does the Vice-President have time to go hunting? Aren't we in the middle of a war? Isn't this a time of such crisis that our very liberties are nothing but mere luxuries that we must set aside to protect ourselves?
There is so much immediate and impending danger that the VP has time to hunt for quail....
FWD beware!!!!!
^^^
Well now that depends on the time of the shooting, place of the shooting and in what manner he shot him.
Secret Service agents prevented local law enforcement from interviewing Cheney the day of the incident.
Cheney spoke with them Sunday.
And he didn't have an "Upland game bird stamp"
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