North Carolina Hopeful Field-Tests a Few Jabs Against Burr

[ccharles000]

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/eyeon2010/2009/09/democrat-senate-hopeful-testin.html

If the zingers Democrat Cal Cunnigham was directing at freshman Sen. Richard M. Burr last week are any indication, the former state senator is getting ready to take on the Republican incumbent in 2010.

In a videotaped speech to a Democratic gathering in Charlotte now making the Internet rounds, Cunningham hit Burr early and often. "In 15 years on Capitol Hill you can't name one thing that Richard Burr has done to make your life better, and I can't either," he declared, referencing Burr's time as a senator and a congressman.

Cunningham, an Iraq War vet, noted, "During the same period of time that Richard Burr was missing more than half of his Veterans Affairs Committee hearings, I was twice called to active duty for a war that he voted to authorize with no plan to keep the peace."

And he went after Burr's now infamous April comments in which he said that during the height of the financial crisis in the fall of 2008, he encouraged his wife to go and take out the maximum amount of cash from the ATM. Said Cunningham: "At the same time he was calling from Washington to his wife to hit the ATM machine and take cash out I was calling from Baghdad just to find out how my family was doing." Cunningham served as a senior trial counsel in the Multi-National Corps in 2007.

[HillWilliam]

1. Somebody PLEASE get rid of that ID10T Burr

All he's done on the Hill is vote against the citizens and line his pocket richly from telecom and banking "donations". He and Liddy Dole were quite a cozy pair with telecom and banking. He's gotten very cozy with big pharma and big insurance.

His voting record tells the whole sorry tale. I'll be overjoyed to see that sumbitch go.

[nc4bo]

2. K&R.

Richard Burr's "TH meeting" cost $30 per ticket and was in front of a pa(R)tisan audience.

He needs to go.