Wendell Ford: “You can do what you want to. But they talked about the questions that were being asked in my hometown. That is fine. You…”

“You can do what you want to. But they talked about the questions that were being asked in my hometown. That is fine. You be there 15 minutes, you know more about my hometown than I do and I have lived there for 70 years. I do not see anybody lining up in my front yard or at my office, asking and begging for Whitewater committees to come up here and investigate. They talk about the campaign in the Second Congressional District yesterday. I will tell you what it was. It was distortion. It was distraction. And it was an avalanche of money. Even the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee put $10,000 in a congressional race. Now, is that what you have been out raising money for? To elect a Congressman? I thought you were going to have the Senate, get a majority in the Senate. We got money from all over the country. Every Congressman who had a campaign fund sent $1,000. Hundreds of thousands of dollars poured in there in a couple of weeks. So it was not a question about, as Speaker Tip O'Neil would say, 'All politics is local.' This in my opinion was far from a local election. When it came in there, you talked about guns, gays--that was part of it--guns, gays, and term limits. Wanted you to sign an affidavit--all these things to tie your hands for months and years to come. Then talk about crime--did not talk about crime at all. That is on the minds of my constituents. I do not know what is on the minds of yours.”