Posted on 05/20/2014 11:03:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
North Carolina Democratic Congressional candidate Clay Aiken declined to say whether Secretary of the Veterans Administration Eric Shinseki should resign Tuesday on NBC.
The former American Idol runner-up offered a somewhat bizarre rationale, telling the Today Show because he was not in the publicly broadcasted Senate hearing and “hasn’t paid attention to those details” he could not say whether Shinseki should go.
“I think we have a lot of people who are making decisions without being in the room,” he said. “I’m not going to be one of those folks who wasn’t in the hearing and hasn’t paid attention to those details and wasn’t privy to that stuff and making decisions for that.”
The major Army installation Fort Bragg is in the North Carolina Congressional district Aiken hopes to represent.
Aiken also employed the vague platitude “we’ve got to do a better job of funding the V.A. [and] we’ve got to do a better job of organizing the VA.”
Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) blasted the implication Congress has been derelict in funding the VA last night on Fox News, noting appropriating additional funds is no good if the administration is falsifying data.
“So [when the liberals suggest] Congress just ‘nickeled and dimed them,’ that’s an outright lie,” McCain said.
Unless they’re Democrats, Virginia citizens cannot vote in an election in North Carolina.
Clay Aiken is a homosexual whose chief claim to fame is having lost a televised singing contest, who has improbably parlayed that into becoming a Democrat candidate for the US House in North Carolina. His closest competitor in that race, Keith Crisco, died suddenly and unexpectedly of a fall at his home, thereby avoiding a runoff election.
You’re confusing Clay Aiken with another homosexual from Texas, Troy Aikman.
Tough to keep them all straight, I guess.
Actually he has had several best selling CDs and starred in a Broadway play. Those are his chief claims to fame. Other than that you nailed it.
Thank you. One queer is just another queer, I guess.
There would not have been a runoff election. He was over the 40% threshold. He was facing a recount when his oppenet died.
I watched the vote tallies that night. There were less than 300 votes separating the two. The recount very likely would have led to a runoff election.
totally not surprised at that answer.
What a doofus. A perfect, typical DIMocRAT.
Not surprised one bit.
Wow, a perfect Dem!
No news media outlets in NC!
He’s a democrat. He doesn’t give a damn about veterans.
the members and families of the 82nd Airborne Division would vote for this fruit?
I see.
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