LaTourette attributes flip-flop on CAFTA to tariff no one pays(R-Liar)

[Algorem]

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1123666682291740.xml&coll=2

-- KraftMaid builds kitchen cabinets in Middlefield, and for that it needs wood.

So when U.S. Rep. Steve LaTourette said he suddenly learned that the company had been socked with tariffs on Central American plywood -- and that they jeopardized the company's jobs in Ohio -- he decided to vote for a controversial trade pact to eliminate those tariffs.

"Absolutely," he said after the vote two weeks ago, confirming that his motivation was solely to protect KraftMaid jobs.

One problem: No U.S. company has to pay tariffs on plywood from Central America, according to trade records reviewed by The Plain Dealer and interviews with industry and trade officials.,,

[louis-t]

1. Yes, but the real question is:

are his pants on fire?

[MidwestTransplant]

2. I don't know how intrenched this guy is but seems like another good Dem

pickup in OH.

[OzarkDem]

6. He stole this seat from Eric Fingerhut

maybe Eric can steal it back.

[MidwestTransplant]

9. Ad should read. Don't worry about being tricked by Bush

Bush tricked a lot of Ohioans too.

[Tempest]

3. Bush is playing his own party as patsies

LaTourette is going to be the laughing stock of his district.

And if Ohio starts losing jobs because of CAFTA, especially at KraftMaide, he's dead meat.

[liberalhistorian]

4. LaTourette is my former congressman

(I moved to Rapid City, SD, in June), and was the county prosecutor before that and I have to say that they could show a videotape of him torturing and murdering kittens every day, all day, and it wouldn't make any difference. He'd still be a shoo-in. He's a hypocritical, lying, immoral fuckstick, but the idiots will still just keep pulling the lever for him no matter what.

The way he left his wife of 22 years, the mother of his three children, last year (he simply called her up and said he was having an affair with a lobbyist and wanted a divorce, then called her up the next week and said, "it's over, goodbye", and just hung up), and married his lobbyist chickie who was nearly 25 years his junior when the ink wasn't even dry on his divorce papers, you'd have thought all the moralist majority in my county would have finally seen the light and seen him in his true colors. But noooo, the local repuke rag wouldn't even cover it, and the Plain Dealer isn't too widely read in that county. The repuke rag didn't even cover the fact that his lobbyist chickie received some major goodies from the committee that he heads. And he had the nerve to call Clinton a "moral disgrace", when what he did was even worse. And to top it off, he refused any discussion of it, saying it was a "private matter." But he couldn't give Clinton that same courtesy, no, it was the country's business in that case.

Unfortunately, the lying idiot is firmly entrenched, and there's no way he'd ever be voted out.

[WCGreen]

8. He also prosecuted the Lungern

Family or what ever that freaky bunch of back country hicks called themselves...

He also pledged not to run more than 4 times, Lied.....

He's a POS who will get reelected cause that district is even more reppublican thatn it was when Fingerhut lost it....

[liberalhistorian]

10. It was the Lundgren family,

and it's always driven me crazy how that was his catapult to the big time. He did no more and no less than any other prosecutor would have done in that case, and there was nothing special about it. He actually had more prosecutions overturned by the OH appeals and OH supreme courts than any other prosecutor in the state, which should tell you something. He didn't care about being fair, about whether the person was actually guilty or not, he just wanted his conviction.

As for the repuke factor of the district, the problem remains with my county (or, I should say now, former county). The district actually includes parts of three other counties, and those counties are far more democratic than my former county. The problem is, you can't win the district without winning that county since that's the way the district is drawn. So the fucking idjits bitch about the way things are in the county and state, and most of what they bitch about was initiated and implemented by repuke politicians, yet they KEEP VOTING THE FUCKHEADS IN, while bitching about the Democrats, who have almost NO power left in the state at all. God, am I so fucking glad to be out of that state. South Dakota isn't even as bad as Ohio, not by a longshot.

[WCGreen]

13. Yea. but the aprts of Cuyahoga, the part I was concerned

about when I treasurer for the democratic party of the CC Dem's, that was the most Republican part of the county....

[MO_Dem]

11. Thanks for posting this--I hadn't heard about it

I remember seeing him on C-Span, I think during the impeachment hearings, and he was on one of the committees. When it was his turn to question a Clinton defender, he opened by saying something like "let me warn you about my withering interrogation abilities". At first, I thought it might be an attempt at a joke, but nobody laughed and I decided he was serious. He sounded like a complete and total jerk.

[liberalhistorian]

12. Well, that's because that's exactly what he is,

a complete and total jerk. His ex-wife is a helluva lot better off, frankly.

[VegasWolf]

7. Yes, and Ohio has so many more jobs to lose! Not! nt

[wli]

5. the CAFTA vote was a farce; might as well have Diebold in Congress

[depakid]

14. Sorry to say, but I'm pretty well out of sympathy for Ohioans

Seems to me that if so many of them keep voting Republican- despite all of the evidence as to how their policies have devastated their communities, they pretty well deserve what's coming to them. I certainly wish I didn't have to feel that way- but I do.

Apologies to all the progressive who choose to live there- but the sheeple in that state will have to learn somehow-

[liberalhistorian]

15. I feel that way, too, which is why I'm damn

glad to have finally made it out of that state, having moved to Rapid City, SD, in June to take a job. I miss my family, friends, and especially my teenage son, all of whom I had to leave behind, but I sure as hell do NOT miss the place or most Ohioans AT ALL. Believe it or not, South Dakota is better than Ohio. Ohioans complain endlessly about how the state's being run into the ground by the repukes, etc., etc., but they KEEP VOTING THE FUCKERS IN ALL THE TIME. God, I'm so glad to be out of there!

[Algorem]

16. Bush Trade Rep. rats out Republican CAFTA liar LaTourette to blog,even

Bush Trade Rep. rats out Republican CAFTA liar LaTourette to blog,even though he,Bush Trade Representative Portman,also lied to the liar LaTourette(and Congress?),on his(Portman's)official website and in documents:


"LaTourette voted on CAFTA before getting tariff report

Sunday, August 14, 2005

Stephen Koff
Plain Dealer Bureau Chief

Sunday, August 14,2005

Washington- ...

Yes, he urged Rep. Steve LaTourette to support the controversial Central American Free Trade Agreement. And LaTourette in the end did, voting with colleagues in the middle of the night and surprising scores of people who had believed him when he said he intended to vote no...

LaTourette's office said the congressman based this belief not only on a conversation with KraftMaid president Tom Chieffe the afternoon before the vote, but also on a document listing base tariffs, provided by Portman's office after the Chieffe conversation...

And so Portman, who lives in Cincinnati when not in Washington or traveling, on Friday called into "The Whistleblower," a widely read Cincinnati-based Web log, according to Jim Schifrin, the blog publisher...

LaTourette's district director, Dino DiSanto, late Friday acknowledged that LaTourette did not have the document from Portman at the time of the vote. But he said LaTourette had basically the same information because his office had looked it up on the trade representative's Web site..."

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