misty water-colored memories

So it looks like former Congressman Rick Nolan is not being very honest with Minnesota families. In a campaign stump speech, Nolan told voters that when he was a Member of Congress he worked Monday through Friday. But wait Rick… The darndest thing happened since you left congress… the internet.

In an interview with Executive Intelligence Review in 1980, Rick Nolan had a different take on his “hard work” in Congress:

“As a congressman, you go back to the district Thursday

night and then come back to Washington Tuesday

and you are exhausted from all the fundraisers. You only

spend a couple of days legislating. You get interrupted

all day with votes on innocuous matters like reading the

Journal.”(EIR, 11.04.80)

Surely former Congressman Nolan couldn’t have fathomed the creation of the internet when making that comment, but why would Rick now tell Minnesota families something that is not true? It was 30 years ago so maybe Rick’s memory is foggy but it sounds like he is trying to deceive Minnesota families.

NRCC Statement: “Former Congressman Rick Nolan is not being very honest about his past. It’s understandable that after 30 years his memory is not what it once was, but to blatantly deceive Minnesota families for political gain is not okay.” – NRCC Spokeswoman Katie Prill