Richard Burr: Doing nothing for a living

Submitted by James on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 5:36pm

Richard Burr has made doing nothing a high art form, but last night took the cake.

RALEIGH, NC - Last night, Senator Richard Burr continued to put partisan politics ahead of the people of North Carolina, skipping a crucial vote on a commonsense job creation bill that would bring thousands of badly-needed jobs to his home state on the same day he asked North Carolinians to send him back to Washington for another six years.

"By failing to show up to vote for a commonsense measure that would bring thousands of jobs to North Carolina on the very day he is asking voters to re-elect him, Senator Burr is offering more of the same obstructionism and hyper-partisanship that define his 16-year career in Washington," said Andrew Whalen, Executive Director of the North Carolina Democratic Party.

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Showing up for work

Submitted by James on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 5:40pm.

a good email campaign today from Cunningham. An easy way to ask Burr why he didn't bother to vote yesterday in the Senate on a bill to grow jobs.

Do it here.

Do good. Be nice. Have fun.

Looks like a fabulous campaign ad as well

Submitted by Foxtrot (not verified) on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 6:24pm.

I will forward an email like that throughout my email list if given to me from Cal.

But, think about how much impact it will have on voters if properly made into a campaign commercial in the general election if Cal does, in fact, win.

Love it.

Looks like I "jumped the gun"

Submitted by Foxtrot (not verified) on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 6:48pm.

Just checked my email and low and behold, Cal has, in fact, sent we supporters an email on that exact issue:

Here's what he sent

Thousands of unemployed and underemployed North Carolinians would give anything for a good-paying job, yet Richard Burr won't even bother to show up for his.

Says it all, doesn't it?

Zoom, zoom...it's on its way to my e-friends.

God love the "electronic highway", huh?

Bank Run Burr

Submitted by James on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 6:08pm.

And who can forget this classic move?

On Friday night, I called my wife and I said, ‘Brooke, I am not coming home this weekend. I will call you on Monday. Tonight, I want you to go to the ATM machine, and I want you to draw out everything it will let you take. And I want you to tomorrow, and I want you to go Sunday.’ I was convinced on Friday night that if you put a plastic card in an ATM machine the last thing you were going to get was cash.

When the chips were down and America's financial system was on the brink of disaster, Richard Burr told us that everything was under control. And then he called his wife to kick off his own private little run on the bank. Imagine if every American had done what Burr did that night? We'd be sitting right smack dab in the middle of another Great Depression.

Do good. Be nice. Have fun.

What is Burr doing instead of his job?

Submitted by James on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 6:30pm.

Why he's raising money from big corporations, of course!

Follow the link and scroll down. Burr's starting to make Liddy Dole look like an real Tar Heel.

Do good. Be nice. Have fun.

And, Cal on the filibuster

Submitted by Foxtrot (not verified) on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 6:56pm.

He's against it.

I got the e-mail too

Submitted by Jake Gellar-Goad on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 11:22pm.

Last night, thanks to the help of a handful of Republicans, the Senate moved forward with a bill focused on getting America back to work. Without their support, this bill would have gone nowhere.

If you think Richard Burr was among those brave Republicans who put their constituents before partisan politics last night, you're mistaken. In fact, Richard Burr didn't even take the time to show up.

Please e-mail Senator Burr today, and ask him why he skipped work.

Thousands of unemployed and underemployed North Carolinians would give anything for a good-paying job, yet Richard Burr won't even bother to show up for his own. Instead, he decided to hold a kick off event for his reelection campaign, where he told supporters that jobs are his number one priority.

What Burr doesn't realize is that actions speak louder than words

I think that was a very strong point to make. That Burr is out there telling people they need to keep him in Washington so that he can vote on jobs related issues, and in so campaigning is missing a vote on jobs related issues.

Ironic headline of the morning

Submitted by RSchofield on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 11:15am.

Under the Dome has a story this morning entitled "Burr hitting fundraising circuit." Uh, could someone please explain just when it was that he was off the circuit?

Burr does not have to work for a living

Submitted by Foxtrot (not verified) on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 12:54pm.

Republican NC U.S. Senator Richard Burr does not have to worry about actually working for a living or being present on each and every vote in the Senate, voting as the citizens of NC would want him to vote etc. Hey, he is and has been working to secure his re-election bids by working within the "K" street project.

This is just sooooo telling:

Burr was a special guest at a K Street fundraiser breakfast this morning with Pennsylvania Senate candidate Pat Toomey. Tickets start at $1,000.
To finish off the day, Burr is holding a fundraising dinner at the Oceanaire Seafood Room. Tickets start at $500 a person.

He is going to have the bucks to present all the spin and rhetoric and deceiving ads to maintain his plush little position in D.C. And we here in N.C.? We're screwed.

Time we end this kind of influence, folks. First order of business is to get this sorry excuse for a NC U.S. Senator out of office.

Burr finally shows

Submitted by James on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 4:45pm.

Gives new meaning to the term flop-flipper.

Do good. Be nice. Have fun.

The responder posts on that link are interesting

Submitted by Foxtrot (not verified) on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 5:01pm.

Did ya read those?