Post 400 - Nu med Conrad

Jeg har seriøst brug for en kæreste eller en fornuftig hobby. Det her er nu indlæg nummer 400.

Her er et billede af Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) der meget sjældent bliver nævnt på denne blog. Jeg undskylder naturligvis til alle de mange Conrad-supportere der læser denne blog - Undskyld! Her er et lille plaster på såret:

Kent Conrad, her sammen med sit vigtigste værktøj: Store boards med farvestrålende grafer på. Et element som også burde indføres i Folketinget som vil gøre de økonomiske debatter i tinget mere tilgængelige for seerne, seerne som jo må være enten dumme, syge eller mærkelige sidsen de har tid til at se fjernsyn midt på dagen...

Note: Kent Conrad er den eneste der har haft to forskellige pladser i senatet den samme dag. Fra Wikipedia:

-In the 1986 election, Conrad defeated the Republican incumbent, Mark Andrews. During the campaign, Conrad pledged that he would not run for re-election if the Federal budget deficit had not fallen by the end of his term. By 1992 it became obvious that this would not be the case, and although polls showed that the electors would have welcomed him going back on his pledge, Conrad considered his promise binding and did not run for re-election. Dorgan won the Democratic primary election.

Conrad got an unusual opportunity to remain in the Senate when the other North Dakota senator, long-serving Dem-NPLer Quentin N. Burdick, died on September 8, 1992. Burdick's widow, Jocelyn Birch Burdick, was appointed to that seat temporarily, but a special election was needed to fill the rest of the term. As this was not running for re-election, Conrad ran for and secured the Democratic-NPL nomination. He won the election and was sworn in December 5, 1992, resigning his other seat the same day. (The first seat was then filled by Dorgan, who was appointed by the governor to fill the seat for the brief interim until he would have been sworn in under normal circumstances.)