He is the master of garbled hyperbole and if you’re looking for extreme overstatements designed to deflect attention from the issue at hand, just call on Senate President Ronald Russell.
Clearly perturbed at being taken to task for continuing not to disclose the names of the Senators whose misuse of funds was identified in the recent Legislative website, Russell called recent media stories on the topic the “misuse of the media” and likened coverage to the circumstances that led to the “genocide in Rwanda.”
From the man who invoked “Brown vs. Board of Education” to talk us into the Broadband deal, now we are told that demands for disclosure of who exactly misused travel funds, indiscriminately gave out millions in government contracts and arbitrarily handed out bonuses to Legislative employees place the media public in the same category as those who, in Russell’s view, caused the deaths of thousands of innocent citizens in an African nation.
This from a candidate who ran on a platform of “transparency.”
If the election was held today, would you vote to return Russell to the Senate?
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