Just after pulling even in the polls two weeks ago, Incumbent Republican Senator Conrad Burns of Montana may have pulled another of his now-infamous verbal gaffes. His low approval numbers and extensive dealing with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff's clients have made him one of the most vulnerable Republicans this year, despite the fact that his opponent is a far-left idiot.
Mary Clare Jalonick of the Associated Press reports:
Republican Sen. Conrad Burns, whose re-election campaign is pressing for tighter immigration controls, referred to his house painter as "a nice little Guatemalan man" and suggested that worker as well as employees of a roofing company he hired might be in the country illegally.
"The other day, the little fella who does our maintenance work around the house, he's from Guatemala, and I said, 'Could I see your green card?'" Burns said at a June meeting recorded by Democrats. "And Hugo says, 'No.' I said, 'Oh gosh.'"Burns spokesman Jason Klindt said the worker, Hugo Reyes, is legally in the United States, owns a painting company and the senator "never had any doubt" that Reyes is a legal resident.
"He was telling an anecdotal story about a time he took the extra step to make sure a worker was legal," Klindt said.
Read the rest at link above. What Jalonick doesn't get around to mentioning until the ninth paragraph is that Burns' gaffe was caught by Democratic opponent Jon Tester's designated videographer, eerily reminiscent of the way Republican Senator George Allen's remarks were taped in Virginia.
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