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

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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..."

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1124011919318730.xml&coll=2

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1. I wonder how many reps were threatened with Wellstoning n/t