Yesterday, The Associated Press reported that Mark Pryor (D-AR) lied to a tornado victim to gain access to his property to shoot an attack ad against Tom Cotton. The tornado victim said that he was under the impression that the footage of the damage on his property was going to be used to draw attention to cleanup efforts, not a political attack ad:
Boydston said he had agreed to allow Pryor’s campaign to shoot video on the property last month, but said he was under the impression it was to draw attention to cleanup efforts in Mayflower. Pryor’s campaign last week posted the video, which features interviews with Mayor Randy Holland and other community leaders criticizing Cotton over his past votes against disaster aid and accusing him of being absent from Mayflower and Vilonia in the tornado’s aftermath. The April 27 storms that hit Arkansas are blamed for 16 deaths and caused millions of dollars in damage.
“I didn’t think it was going to be a political ad,” Boydston said.
Pryor has proven he’ll say and do anything to keep his seat in Washington, including lie to a tornado victim in order to score cheap political points.
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This morning, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki offered his resignation to President Obama. The resignation came after more than 100 members of Congress in both parties called for Shinseki to step down, in light of the growing problems facing the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Two Democrat Senators up for re-election in 2014 who did not find enough evidence in the Inspector General’s report to call for Shinseki’s ouster: Mark Begich (D-AK) and Mark Pryor (D-AR).
Just yesterday, Pryor said he was still “not yet” ready to call for Shinseki to resign from the VA. Why? Evidently the tragedy in Phoenix in which 40 veterans died while waiting for care on a secret waiting list was not enough for Pryor,who said:
“I want to see how widespread this is. I want to see what is going on there. I want to get inside the numbers a little bit, not just the big top line number.”
Also yesterday, Begich held a press conference, specifically about veterans’ issues. When asked if Shinseki should resign, the AP reports Begich was “reserving judgment.”
It’s not clear what these senators were looking for, but what is clear is that they failed to stand up for the thousands of veterans in their states.
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Today, when asked if Secretary Shinseki should resign from the VA after an IG report detailed the severity of the scandal, Mark Pryor replied: “Not yet.”
Asked Pryor should Shinseki resign? Pryor: “Not yet.” Wants to see what Shinseki knew & how wide spread it is. #arpx
— Elicia Dover (@EliciaDover)May 29, 2014
Pryor’s “not yet” remarks came after the release of a scathing IG report:
Why is this IG report and its shocking contents not enough for Pryor to hold Shinseki accountable for the VA’s mismanagement?
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Newly uncovered audio depicts Mark Pryor lecturing college students at Ouachita Baptist University with some pretty bizarre political spin.
First, Pryor told the students that the only reason why he got into politics was because “basically I just kind of grew up around it.”
Min 5:30 PRYOR: “So anyway, how I got involved into politics is basically I just kind of grew up around it. I just, you know, something that I’ve known.”
Real powerful stuff.
Then, Pryor claimed that the Harry Reid-led Senate is the most transparent body in the U.S. government; whereas, the House “is on its way to dictatorship.”
Min 10:30 PRYOR: “You know, I see the Senate, I think the Senate plays a very unique role in our system of government. And we can, again, talk a lot about that. But you if you think about it, it’s really the one place in our national government where the people, you all, can see law being made. So the other house, the House rules are such that basically the Speaker runs the House. I hate to say it, but the House is on its way to dictatorship. It’s like an autocracy.”
Finally, Pryor instructed the students that the CQ vote study of him voting with President Obama 95 percent of the time was “not true” and misconstrued by Republicans.
Min 20:55 PRYOR: “If you look at all what they have done, they have tried to make it about President Obama and ObamaCare and whatever. And, that only tells, you know, a little part of the story. Of course, what they do, of course, is they manipulate all of those numbers. Like I’ve voted with the president 95 percent of the time, which is not true. But anyway, they manipulate those numbers and come up with these numbers that don’t hold water when you get down to it. But if they say it enough, people believe it.”
Mark Pryor might want to brush up on his talking points if he wants to convince Arkansas voters that he should be reelected after voting for Obama’s liberal agenda for years.