Sen. Mel Martinez has a history of blaming his staff for his mistakes [View All]

[Nothing Without Hope]

Kos pointed this out today at the DailyKos in an article published Nov 4, 2004 in the St. Petersburg Times:

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/11/04/Opinion/The_real_Mel_Martinez.shtml

The real Mel Martinez

A Times Editorial

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...But Martinez will need more than a gesture to separate his office from the ugliness and excesses of his campaign.

Long after leaving Republicans embittered by his appeals to bigotry and his vulgar attacks on former U.S. Rep. Bill McCollum, Martinez used his general election campaign to tar Castor, a distinguished former legislator and education leader, as a terrorist sympathizer.

When challenged, Martinez was too eager to assign blame to his staff or to groups he said he couldn't control. As a senator, he will need an office and a staff that speaks with the measured and centrist tone he says will be his own. He can't pretend to be above it all if the people he employs are not.

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As Kos comments in his post on this ("With Martinez, the buck stops elsewhere" http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/4/7/11732/92411), "Sigh, a tiger can't change his stripes, can he?"

Yep, some evil, misguided, abolutely unsupervised, solo staffer typed up and distributed that Schiavo memo all by himself and even secretly put it - all unbeknownst to Mel - in the very pocket of the senatorial jacket!! Shocking, the uppitiness of help these days. No wonder the neocons want that bankruptcy legislation and the Social Security changes - then they can hire all the desperate unemployed people they want!