Gonzales again said he would have to get back to Leahy, prompting him to respond, “He's your associate attorney general. I mean, you would certainly know whether it's a week a year or several months a year, wouldn't you?...
“I'm talking about an office that the judge himself says is in disarray in Montana, and Mr. Mercer has testified that he's in Montana just three days a month - three days a month - while he's acting as your associate attorney general,” Leahy responded. “I just mentioned that because if we're talking about absentee landlords, sometimes the absentee landlords are created by your own office.”
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If a political machine does not allow the people free expression, then freedom-loving people lose their faith in the machinery under which their government functions (re: The Battle of Athens.) ~~~ Eleanor Roosevelt