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If you say a congressman is missing, and he’s found in Afghanistan — does it count?
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 12, 2007 07:39pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, September 13, 2007 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It’s hard to know what to make of this fight that Rick Goddard has picked with U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall, the Democrat from Macon.
Goddard ripped into Marshall for missing debate on the farm bill in July. Not a vote. Just debate.
“Our current congressman was not there. He was overseas during the debate, and I think that’s wrong,” said Goddard, a retired Air Force major general.
Wrote Marshall in an e-mail published by the Macon Telegraph: “First of all, the General obviously doesn’t know how things get done in Congress. Before I left for my long scheduled ‘overseas’ trip, the farm bill debate was over in the ag committee — the bill was drafted and noses counted. And I knew I’d be back in time to help move the farm bill through the full House.
“But the General’s ‘overseas’ and ‘duty’ references are arguably unbecoming. He knows I was embedded with a Special Forces team in a remote base along the Pakistan border. But he just calls that being ‘overseas.’ And if he doesn’t think that’s my ‘duty’ as a member of the Armed Services Committee, the general’s not ready to represent Georgia in Congress. This isn’t San Francisco.”
What makes this a strange fight is that Goddard was brought on board to go toe-to-toe with Marshall on military issues. And this isn’t an exchange that Georgia’s military community is likely to buy into. |
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