Clarifying Don Manzullo’s vote

July 16th, 2008 at 07:27pm Linda Grist Cunningham

“I voted for the fastest way to kill this bill,” U.S. Congressman Don Manzullo told me just now. He wanted to make absolutely sure that I — and you — understood that he was NOT voting for impeaching President George W. Bush. And, I promised him I would make that clear.

This is, said Don in a call to me at home, a complicated process and, while there are at least two ways to get that bill killed, voting “yes” was the fastest way to do so. As I told the Congressman, my earlier blog post was not a comment on impeaching Bush, but, instead a reflection on the Congressman’s strong Constitutional foundations. He accepted that, and in turn, I wanted to make sure you understood as well.

One of the complicated pros and cons of Web work — and especially with a short post meant only to comment on a single issue — is that the post can be seriously misleading and then it can take on a life of its own. I apologize for a post that out of context could be and probably was misread as my saying Manzullo voted to impeach the president. He did not. Period.

I heard from our newsroom editors that Register Star political editor Chuck Sweeny is talking with Don and will have a more detailed explainer of the vote and what it means in tomorrow’s newspaper. Knowing Chuck’s ability to take complicated subjects and make them understandable, his piece will be one of the first I read tomorrow. I suggest you join me.

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