[Vision2020] And It Was Only His First Day in DC

[Tom Hansen]

>From "New West - The Voice of the Rocky Mountains" at -

http://www.newwest.net/index.php/city/article/bill_sali_reports_to_wrong_tea
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And It Was Only His First Day in D.C.
Bill Sali Reports to Wrong Team, Wrong Huddle-On the Wrong Day

By Jill Kuraitis, 11-17-06

Under the heading, "Sali Forth," Congressional Daily reporter Peter Bell
wrote this morning that Idaho Congressman-elect Bill Sali arrived for a
meeting 24 hours early and thoroughly lost. 

"New beginnings have their awkward moments, and this week's congressional
leadership elections are no exception. But the sight of Speaker-elect Pelosi
clasping hands in victory with her rival, Majority Leader-elect Hoyer, was
not the only gawky episode Thursday. Earlier that day, freshman Rep.-elect
Bill Sali, R-Idaho, showed up a day early and in the wrong place -- the
Democratic Caucus meeting. Sali, a goateed, conservative state legislator
whose reputation for political combat preceded him to Washington, said he
was following the schedule provided to him by the House Administration
Committee, and so headed to room 345 in the Cannon House Office Building
after attending a prayer breakfast. "They'd been very good until then," Sali
said of the committee. The committee couldn't confirm the mix-up. A
spokesman for the Democratic Caucus said Sali didn't gain access to the room
but was treated cordially. "What's the word ... he was pleasantly
redirected," said a Caucus spokesperson. It must have been in a general
direction. "I asked the Democrats where the Republicans were meeting, and
they didn't know," Sali said.

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As the saying goes:

"You get what you pay for."

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"Forty percent of the mass of every tree in the forest is crude oil.  Stop
and think about that." 

- Bill Sali (September 21, 2006)