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Pence Pokes Fun at Presidential Run
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| Last Edited | TX DEM Dec 05, 2010 04:34pm |
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| News Date | Sunday, December 5, 2010 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Indiana Republican Rep. Mike Pence may not have decided yet whether to run for president, but he’s decided to joke about the possibility.
Rep. Pence spoke Saturday at a dinner of the Gridiron Club, an organization of senior Washington journalists, and much of his humorous presentation involved poking fun at the speculation that he’ll seek the GOP nomination to run against President Barack Obama in 2012.
At one point, for instance, Rep. Pence said he’d be consulting his “loved ones” in making his decision on whether to run. “And by my loved one, I mean my finance chairman and the head of my political action committee,” he cracked. At another point, he showed a video of himself on a cable news interview, providing a voice-over of what he was really thinking while the segment was under way. And much of what he was thinking had to do with how “President Pence” would sound.
Rep. Pence gave up his spot in the Republican House leadership this month, fueling the speculation that he’ll either make a presidential run or will seek to become governor of his home state of Indiana. But in his remarks, he said there was another reason he chose not to become a top deputy to incoming House Speaker John Boehner, a well-known smoker: “Do you have any idea how dangerous second-hand smoke is?”
The Democratic speaker at the dinner was Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schulz, who poked fun at her own absence from the House Democratic leadership. A prolific fund-raiser, the congresswoman had hoped to be named head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee but was passed over for the job by outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Which led Rep. Wasserman Schulz to crack that the speaker had instead named a holiday in her honor: “Passover.” |
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