Media calls should be directed to Ben "f---er, a--face" Nelson’s hairdresser:

Senate earmark battle turns very personal

By Daphne Retter
August 21, 2007

A battle between the offices of Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) over a controversial earmark intensified earlier this month, displaying how debates on Capitol Hill sometimes can turn personal.

The senators had been at odds over the matter for much of the summer, but it would reach a new level when John Hart, communications director for Coburn, forwarded a news article detailing his boss’s request for an investigation of a defense contractor.

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“This will shut that f---er up,” Hart stated in an Aug. 1 e-mail sent from his Senate account to several of his colleagues. “I can’t wait to send an In Case You Missed It to Nebraska press that will be forwarded to a--face.”

In a reply-all, Coburn legislative director Roland Foster joked that media calls should be directed to Nelson’s hairdresser and “his son’s probation officer.”




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