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Home clean government Betsy Markey: I voted against TARP before I didn’t vote on it at all

1/8/2010 By Ben 3 Comments

Betsy Markey: I voted against TARP before I didn’t vote on it at all

Chalk it up to a slip of the tongue or wishful thinking or just the growing pressures of the 2010 campaign season, but Colorado’s Democratic 4th District Congresswoman Betsy Markey got a little bit confused yesterday morning in her appearance on 600 KCOL’s “Mornings with Keith and Gail,” a local Fort Collins radio talk show:

It’s not exactly a flip-flop at the caliber of 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.” But it does make you wonder a bit….

Filed Under: clean government, Colorado Politics, Fiscal Policy, General, liberty, National Politics, PPC

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  1. The Inevitable Result of Feigning Fiscal Conservatism | Night Twister says:
    1/11/2010 at 9:29 am

    […] in fact, that she claimed to have voted against the TARP funding bill even before she took office (listen here for yourself). Umm, I voted against the TARP funding, umm, you know when, of course that was actually, uh, voted […]

  2. The Inevitable Result of Feigning Fiscal Conservatism - NightTwister’s blog - RedState says:
    1/11/2010 at 9:29 am

    […] in fact, that she claimed to have voted against the TARP funding bill even before she took office (listen here for yourself). Umm, I voted against the TARP funding, umm, you know when, of course that was actually, uh, voted […]

  3. Peoples Press Collective » The Inevitable Result of Feigning Fiscal Conservatism says:
    1/11/2010 at 10:11 am

    […] in fact, that she claimed to have voted against the TARP funding bill even before she took office (listen here for yourself). Umm, I voted against the TARP funding, umm, you know when, of course that was actually, uh, voted […]

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