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Cuellar's political attack on former Congressman Rodriguez backfires
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| Last Edited | FBL Feb 19, 2006 12:40pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - San Antonio Express-News |
| News Date | Friday, February 17, 2006 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON – A political attack on former Congressman Ciro Rodriguez by Henry Cuellar's campaign backfired Friday when an angry Illinois business owner said her company was being dragged through the political mud with false accusations.
Cuellar's campaign accused Rodriguez of working for a Chicago company that persuades firms to outsource jobs and fire employees.
“It couldn't be further from the truth,” Sandra Figueroa Bast, owner of Bast Services Inc., told the San Antonio Express-News.
“It's slanderous,” Bast said, adding Cuellar “should have had the decency to call me before writing something that is false.”
Cuellar campaign manager Dan Wright, in a news release, said Rodriguez was hired by Bast as a Washington lobbyist, choosing “to line his own pockets at the expense of jobs for working families by representing a firm whose goal is to ship American jobs out of the country.”
“We have taken every measure to avoid attacking Ciro, but it is time that this hypocrisy was made public,” Wright said.
Federal law prohibits a former lawmaker from lobbying the House for one year.
Cuellar's campaign did not offer proof of any lobbying to back up the charge. |
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