Posted on 09/16/2004 8:19:10 PM PDT by Cableguy
BAIRD, Tex., Sept. 16 -- For half a dozen years, Bill Burkett has lived a pretty uneventful life in this tiny West Texas town. He and his wife are regulars at the Whistle Stop Cafe, ordering bacon cheeseburgers with jalapenos and fries or the pork chop special on Mondays. He "visits," as people like to say in these parts, with other ranchers over coffee at the Callahan County Farmer's Co-Op. And like other polite locals, he drops in on the local elected officials to introduce himself.
He is, by most accounts, a nice man who, in an overwhelmingly Republican-voting area, might be seen as somewhat eccentric for his Democratic bias
"I've made comments to him like, 'I think there's only two Democrats left in Callahan County, and I'm both of them,' " said Pete Mendez, 65, a retired federal firefighter who has lived in the county all his life. " 'It's three of us, if that's the way you look at it' is kind of what he's said."
Despite several requests, Burkett has said nothing publicly since Wednesday, after he was named in news reports as a possible source of the disputed documents CBS News's "60 Minutes" used in a Sept. 8 broadcast that said President Bush received preferential treatment while he was in the Texas Air National Guard.
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Laminating and simonizing available for them as well!
I live in Abilene. It is pro-military, conservative, family-oriented, etc. & will go big for Bush.
Burkett lives in the next county. So Barnes has connections all over & as for Knox, I'm not aware of him but I thought you meant Marion Carr Knox, Killian's Bush-bashing typist. She sure ain't here!
Sheesh!
Don't tar ABILENE with this.
LOL!
Popped into my twisted mind.
Dunno why.
Burkett is not "well-regarded". He's had 2 nervous breakdowns and he's considered a "kook".
WashPooooop......clearly working hard to provide some damage control....and trying to the taint the 'jury pool' on that 'quiet boy'......they omit all the important facts about Burkett and tell us how he likes his hamburgers....I hate the MSM!
Then, even if he acted alone in the forgeries, it's STILL a conspiracy.
And I had read something recently about how Burkett complained about his neighbors had been giving him the deep freeze because he doesn't support Bush.
The guy is just a certified kook.
There was a guy from the Boston Globe on FOX tonight, but I can remember which show he was on. He said that he had interviewed Burkett, but when he tried to fact check the statements Burkett made about Bush, he couldn't run with the story because he couldn't get any corroboration of Burkett's facts.
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