"Sen. Martinez has gone against the President on several issues since his election. One of them was on off-shore drilling. He opposed the Energy Bill which called for drilling 150 miles off the Florida coast in the Gulf of Mexico. "
We are not sure what kind of senator he is yet. We like his local staff. They are tops.
I do recall a telling moment soon after he was sworn in. An aide had given him an internal memo of background information. He was holding it in a stack of papers while talking to Sen. Tom Harkin. He voluntarily gave this paper to Harkin.
Harkin took the opportunity to get before the microphones and villify the nefarious Republicans over this memo. I need to look up the details but at the same my initial reaction to the memo's contents was, "So What?"
Martinez immediately fired the staffer who had composed the memo and given it to him.
I thought that was craven in the extreme. It was the staffer's job to prepare this sort of briefing memo. The staffer was not the one who leaked or gave away anything. It was the Senator himself.