“...his spokesman, Andrew Wimer, said it was Pitts’ staff that made the mistake.
“Rep. Pitts certainly knows who currently leads the Israeli and Palestinian governments,” Wimer said. “Congressman Pitts responds to tens of thousands of constituent inquiries a year. Because it is impossible to draft a unique reply to each inquiry, language is often reused for similar responses. In this case, a double mistake was made. Language that should have been archived was included in a draft response.
“Responding to tens of thousands of letters a year is a complicated process. Mistakes are both few and rare, but do sometimes occur. This one was particularly embarrassing. We have apologized to the constituent and are reviewing our internal process to make sure this sort of thing can’t happen again.”
Tom Nale of Kennett said he recently saw Pitts and said he is certainly up on current events.
“I know he visited Israel quite a few times recently,” Nale said.”
A good conservative, so the media will probably pound on this mistake every day.
Yeah, I was just about to write a post saying I doubt there are any Congressmen in the House who have written a single letter to a constituent in years. That’s just not done anymore. Form letter are the rule of thmb. I something needs to be written to address a specific person’s question aids write the letters. The Representative probably never sees most of what is written in his/her name.
I was thinking along the same lines. Fortunately, I haven't heard anything on it in the MSM since it broke.
Could Congressman Pitts have lucked out? The lefty MSM is now obsessed with Facebook and its IPO - and isn't saying much about the much more significant recent stock market declines and the European socialist economic disasters that are precipitating them. Today, I was in a brokerage office after a brutal day for investors, and MSNBC's financial coverage, eminating from a large screen TV, was wall-to-wall Facebook. Could Obama's running for re-election possibly have something to do with their perverse priorities?