Politicalwire: Conrad Spokesman Denies Earlier Report He'd Vote Against a Public Option

[flpoljunkie]

August 14, 2009

Conrad Spokesman Denies Earlier Report

A report earlier today said Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) would vote against a health care reform plan with a public option. It was big news if you're following the debate closely.

Alex Koppelman: "Turns out, though, that it's not true. The Sun's story never quoted Conrad directly about the public option, and the senator's communications director, Sean Neary, told Salon that the story was inaccurate. Conrad has been telling his constituents that he won't let the government run their health care, which may be the cause of the confusion, but that language doesn't preclude the public option."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/08/14/conrad_spokesman_denies_earlier_report.html

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. the power of the netroots should not be underestimated.

I suspect Kent received a fairly hot response from his own and that forced a hard look in the mirror: "Do I stay a paid whore for big Pharma and big Insurance? Or do I uphold my oath to that - what was it called, that scrap of paper? - oh yeah. The constitution."

[Phx_Dem]

2. I wonder if he floated that remark to see how it'd go over?

Apparently, it didn't. Fool.