Minnesota senator closes Washington office, citing terrorist threat...

I know...there was discussion here about a week and a half ago concerning this, however most of the info came from the mainstream media. The following isn't so one-sided against the good senator.
http://wsws.org/articles/2004/oct2004/dayt-O23_prn.shtml

By Ron Jorgenson and Patrick Martin
23 October 2004

The first term senator was either denounced or ridiculed by Senate colleagues, local officials in Washington, and the media. He is the only senator to close his office in the Russell Senate Office Building, which is situated across the street from the Capitol. Republicans have denounced him as a "coward," as "paranoid," and for "caving in to terrorism" and "sending the wrong message."

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Dayton is hardly an eccentric or iconoclast, however. He is a multimillionaire scion of the family that founded Target Corporation, the second largest US retailer, and is in a position to recieve information from high-level contacts within the US government and the corporate world about any possible "October surprise" attack on the US capitol.

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In attempting to defend himself against charges of cowardice when compared to his Senate counterparts who did not close their offices, Dayton made a telling observation. Despite the fact the Senate has a large volume of unfinished buisness--eight major appropriation bills remain uncompleted--this is the "earliest we have closed the Senate in the four years since I have been a senator. Two years ago , we stayed till the 17th of October."
The implication is that, far from upholding their motto of "not caving in to terrorists," senators were clearing out of Washington under the cover of a pre-election recess, while leaving their staffs behind to face an ostensible terrorist threat.

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Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the senior member of the Senate and an outspoken opponent of the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq, defended Dayton's actions. "Senator Dayton took this precautionary step based on his conscience and his responsibility to his staff," Byrd said. "I commend him."

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Then there is the mysterious plane crash which killed Dayton's Minnesota Senate colleague, Paul Wellstone. The liberal Democrat was in a tight race in October 2002 elections against Bush-designated Republican challenger Norm Coleman, but was pulling ahead in the polls by coming out against military intervention in Iraq. Next Monday a group that has privately investigated the crash will hold a press conference in Washington to voice it's conviction that Wellstone's death was a political assassination.
It would be foolish to think that the Bush administration and the US government are incapable of such action. On the contrary, Dayton's action in closing his Senate office suggests that concern over potential political gangsterism by the Bush administration is mounting even at the highest levels of the US political establishment.

more...
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/oct2004/dayt-o23_prn.shtml

I looked at their home page but couldn't spot it.




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if I'd watch my fingers a little more closely...oh well! :headbang:

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