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I am not surprised at the recent surfacing of a memo to replublican legislators politicizing the Schiavo incident written by (supposedly) a member of the staff of florida senator Mel Martinez. But, according to Sen. Martinez, he had no knowledge of this memo. Allegedly, it was written by a member of his staff without his authorization.

To this I call bullshit.

Sen. Martinez ran one of the most dirty campaigns that I have ever seen. He attacked fellow Republicans to reach the nomination, on one occasion sending out a direct mailing referring to one Republican senate candidate "the new darling of the homosexual extremists," for sponsoring hate-crime legislation. He denied knowledge of this mailing, which (deja vu?) came out of his campaign staff. When later asked to agree to a clean campaign in the senate debates, he outright refused. He is an unethical and disgraceful person and has no business in politics, much less in the US Senate. He's the kind of guy that gives far right reactionary Christian conservative fascists a bad name.

I believe that a member of his staff wrote the memo. The vine rots from the root, and I can only imagine the horde of evil that staffs his senate office. But, I don't believe for a second that he had no knowledge of the memo.

Oh, yeah--and by the way--he is the one that distributed this document of which he (allegedly) had no knowledge, on the senate floor no less. I'm not sure if he is that stupid, or if he thinks that we are that stupid. Spit on him if you ever meet him. No, better yet, that's probably a waste of good saliva. I'm embarrassed every day that he is "representing" me.