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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Senate Republicans respond to Pam Roach's criticism

Posted by Hunter George @ 06:18:30 pm

The state Senate's Republican leadership says in a news release that it disciplined Auburn Sen. Pam Roach on a "personnel matter" last week.

That explains the strange Roach press release we got earlier today (see previous post) that sharply criticized Senate Minority Leader Mike Hewitt.

The GOP response was delivered by three other members of the Senate Republican's leadership team - Sens. Linda Parlette, Mark Schoesler and Dale Brandland - because they said Hewitt is undergoing a medical procedure.

We'll look into this. In the meantime, here's the caucus response:

“Sen. Roach has distorted events that happened off campus to distract attention from internal personnel issues for which she was disciplined.

“We cannot discuss personnel issues in the press.

“We want to make it clear that this disciplinary decision did not involve any one member of leadership; it involved all four members of the senior Republican leadership. The matter has to do with Sen. Roach’s official actions, not any off campus comments or observations she has about the caucus.

“Finally, Sen. Roach’s allegation that Sen. Hewitt ‘exposed his backside to a female senator’ is factually deceptive and personally harmful.

“We are disappointed that Sen. Roach has decided to make a private personnel matter public.”

Sen. Linda Parlette
Sen. Mark Schoesler
Sen. Dale Brandland

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