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Hearing crickets, Murphy says he likes ‘long walks on the beach’
Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-8) had a news conference last week in Washington to hype his newly-enacted legislation to cut wasteful spending. But apparently reporters weren’t too interested—or at least not interested enough to ask questions.
ABC News pointed out that when he opened the floor for questions and only heard crickets, Murphy threw out some personal information for comic relief.
“I’m a Libra, I like long walks on the beach with my wife,” Murphy said to laughter.
Murphy’s race against Republican Mike Fitzpatrick is currently No. 6 on the pa2010.com Congressional Power Rankings.
See video of the news conference below.
July 26, 2010 at 10:52 am
Tags: Mike Fitzpatrick, PA-8, Patrick Murphy
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C Guiney
Jul 26th, 2010
A strategic thinker who is willing to slog through the tedious details of budgets…and has a sense of humor.
We are fortunate to have Murphy in the House.
Transplant
Jul 26th, 2010
Love Patrick Murphy!
Hot days in DC
Jul 26th, 2010
The heat in Washington DC must have gotten to the reporters heads cause it sounds like it is an important issue but these not-so-hard-working reporters couldn’t think of one question – wow!
Good for Congressman Murphy for working hard himself and for having a sense of humor!
Go Patrick! Have a nice long walk on the beach with your wife and child – you deserve it!
Questioning
Jul 31st, 2010
I don’t understand why we need this new bill, to stop 110 billion in fraud. Fraud is already illegal. The problem is, if you don’t look for it to begin with, you don’t find the 110 billion in fraud. The Gov. need to do their job, check before they pay the bills. This new Bill will do nothing!
Go Patrick! No wonder the reports didn’t have any question. Fraud is already illegal.
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Questioning
Jul 31st, 2010
Go Patrick! Fraud is already illegal.
No wonder the reporters didn’t have any question.
Fraud is already illegal. It is like going around in circles.
righton
Aug 3rd, 2010
The congressman also cited one (old) case involving over 900 counts of fraud, which, he said, shows the “need” for new legislation.
You have to wonder, since fraud was and is a crime, was the 900-count perp prosecuted way back then? What do you think?