nobody had ever heard of, called george pataki. and that was a republican wave year in 1994. and this wasn t a federal election. this was just in new york state. so the beltway actually didn t lose its mind very much over mario cuomo, losing that election. so he doesn t get a check mark there, but that s mostly because the beltway was losing its mind about everything else that was happening in 1994. he gets some of those check marks, but not beltway losing its mind and i don t think anybody cried. four years later, this was a great one, 1998 in vermont, this was pat leahy s senate seat from vermont. but the big shocker here was in the republican primary for that seat. 1998, a guy named jack mcmullen was a zillionary who moved from massachusetts to vermont, expecting that basically his welcome gift for arriving in the state would be that he d be handed the wide-open republican nomination in the senate race to
what they were doing, the united states senate seized their moment out of the spotlight today to actually do something. this was the big bipartisan compromise bill to rye to reform the v.a., to open up more than two dozen new health facilities to serve veterans and to try to hire enough doctors and other professionals into the v.a. to actually meet the demand for veteran services instead of some company cooking the books to try to make it look like they were meeting veteran needs when they really weren t. senator bernie sanders of vermont shares veteran affairs and had introduced another version of this bill in february, the republicans filibustered it. but today the bill senator sanders worked out with john mccain, it not only got fastracked into a senate floor vote, it passed. it passed hugely, it passed 93-3. only three senators voted against it. the house voted unanimously, yesterday, on their own version of a v.a. bill. now that some kind of bill has passed both houses of congress
capitol hill today, on the other side of the rotunda, literally at the exact same time, the united states senate perhaps sensing that nobody was noticing what they were doing, the united states senate seized their moment out of the spotlight today to actually do something. this was the big bipartisan compromise bill to rye to reform the v.a., to open up more than two dozen new health facilities to serve veterans and to try to hire enough doctors and other professionals into the v.a. to actually meet the demand for veteran services instead of some company cooking the books to try to make it look like they were meeting veteran needs when they really weren t. senator bernie sanders of vermont shares veteran affairs and had introduced another version of this bill in february, the republicans filibustered it. but today the bill senator sanders worked out with john mccain, it not only got fastracked into a senate floor vote, it passed. it passed hugely, it passed 93-3. only three senators vo
massachusetts to vermont, expecting that basically his welcome gift for arriving in the state would be that he d be handed the wide-open republican nomination in the senate race to run against democrat plait hooe. jack mcmullan was a zillionaire, he was smooth, knew exactly what he was doing, and there was no one else in the republican field for senate. so it really seemed like he had very clear sailing for that race in 1998, until a man named fred tuttle came along. you need to say fred tuttle, very clearly. can you tell me your name? fred tuttle. you see, when you say it, it sounds like you re saying is fury turtle. fred tuttle. fred tuttle. fred tuttle! fred tuttle! fred tuttle! spread fred, fred tuttle, vermont dairy farmer, lived in vermont all of his life, expect for when he was serving his country in world war ii. fred tuttle basically charmed the pants off of vermont,
run against democrat plait hooe. jack mcmull sn was a zillionaire, he was smooth, knew exactly what he was doing, and there was no one else in the republican field for senate. so it really seemed like he had very clear sailing for that race in 1998, until a man named fred tuttle came along. you need to say fred tuttle, very clearly. can you tell me your name? fred tuttle. you see, when you say it, it sounds like you re saying is fury turtle. fred tuttle. fred tuttle. fred tuttle! fred tuttle! fred tuttle! spread fred, fred tuttle, vermont dairy farmer, lived in vermont all of his life, expect for when he was serving his country in world war ii. fred tuttle basically charmed the pants off of vermont, running as a dairy farmer who loved his cows. running against this multi-millionaire guy from out of state, who thought the