Already forced to apologize for saying he had served "in" Vietnam in the Marine Reserve rather than stateside, the state attorney general's campaign for U.S. Senate is now being challenged to explain his assertion that he had "never taken PAC money" and has "rejected all special interest money." Did he get Combat Pay for running the Toys for Tots.
Seared, seared into his memory, it was, going up-river to deliver purple dinosaurs to the tykes ...
Federal records show that he has accepted $480,000 in
It is rather hard to wave away cold, hard numbers ...
Blumenthal's campaign insists he did not lie -- as McMahon says -- when he said in an interview on MSNBC the day after he announced he was running for the seat of retiring Sen. Chris Dodd that he had never taken PAC money. His campaign says he was referring only to his 20 years as attorney general.
Never in 20 years. Except for Tuesdays and Saturdays ...