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Kennedy's Dog Leaps on Worker
Washington Post ^
| September 11, 2002
| Lloyd Grove
Posted on 09/11/2002 7:01:24 AM PDT by Onelifetogive
With all the dire terrorist warnings coming from the homeland security experts -- who yesterday issued a Code Orange alert on the eve of the anniversary of 9/11 -- nerves on Capitol Hill were understandably frayed.
Even Splash, Sen. Ted Kennedy's normally placid Portuguese water dog, was out of sorts.
About 5 p.m. yesterday, as the Massachusetts Democrat sat in the Russell Building rotunda being interviewed by Boston television reporter Ryan Ruggiero about last year's terrorist attacks, Splash barked and jumped on a passing Senate electrician who had arrived to fix a power problem in the building. We hear that the surprised worker received a scratch on his right arm, and a Kennedy staffer promptly gave Splash a disciplinary whack and removed him while the senator apologized. The dog was not on a leash.
"Senator Kennedy is taking this very seriously and is very sorry about it," Kennedy spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter told us. "He apologized profusely to the worker and is going to keep Splash on a tighter leash. Anybody who knows Splash knows that this is very out of character for him."
We hear that a Capitol physician determined that the unidentified worker's abrasions were not serious, though Capitol Police investigators were preparing a report on the incident. It was unclear yesterday whether Splash will be back on the Hill anytime soon.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: kennedy
Kennedy Dog???
I am picturing the dog all liquored up and humping someone's leg.
To: Onelifetogive
Was yesterday Take Your Pet to Work Day? What is a dog doing in the Capitol?
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posted on
09/11/2002 7:04:42 AM PDT
by
noexcuses
To: Onelifetogive
Even Splash, Sen. Ted Kennedy's normally placid Portuguese water dog, was out of sorts. His dog is named Splash?
To: Onelifetogive; Orual; aculeus; general_re; BlueLancer
Hmmmmmm, Teddy Kennedy has a Portuguese water dog named Splash.
He's not very bright, to be sure, but that's stupid even for him.
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posted on
09/11/2002 7:05:44 AM PDT
by
dighton
To: Onelifetogive
To: Captainpaintball
His dog is named Splash? Does he have a cat named "Mary Jo?"
To: Onelifetogive
Teddy has a dog named "splash?" One would not think that he was capable of such irony, how ever ghoulish it may in this case.
To: dighton
"Teddy Kennedy has a Portuguese water dog named Splash."Well, I guess it was better than "Buick" or "Mary Jo".
To: Onelifetogive
Nah, they got it right. The dog, "Splash", (I love that name) probably was loaded and horny and just trying to hi-jack a ride to Chappaquiddick in an Oldsmobile. If that dog gains a hundred pounds, he could run for senator in Massachusetts and win.
To: Onelifetogive
Was the electrition black? I bet Kennedy has a raciest dog and they are not telling us!
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posted on
09/11/2002 7:11:00 AM PDT
by
Khepera
To: noexcuses
It's Ted's "Find my beer" dog.
To: Temple Owl
"If that dog gains a hundred pounds, he could run for senator in Massachusetts and win."
I can see it now - SPLASH KENNEDY!!!
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posted on
09/11/2002 7:12:28 AM PDT
by
LADY J
To: Onelifetogive; Las Vegas Dave
Splash,How fitting for Ted "The Swimmer" Kennedy to name his dog Splash.
To: dighton; aculeus; general_re
Even Splash, Sen. Ted Kennedy's normally placid Portuguese water dog... "John Farrar, the rescue diver who examined the Chappaquiddick accident scene, was convinced that Mary Jo Kopechne had not only survived the crash, but had also lived for some time by breathing a pocket of trapped air. Farrar did not believe that she had drowned, but instead had died by asphyxiation as the oxygen in the air she was breathing was used up and replaced with carbon dioxide. "She was alive, easily an hour, maybe two," he said."
What an idiot.
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posted on
09/11/2002 7:16:33 AM PDT
by
Orual
To: noexcuses
Was yesterday Take Your Pet to Work Day? What is a dog doing in the Capitol?What was the dog doing bringing a Kennedy with him?
To: noexcuses; dighton; BlueLancer; Orual; aculeus
Was yesterday Take Your Pet to Work Day? What is a dog doing in the Capitol? Splash is well known as Ted's most able legislative assistant...
To: Temple Owl
If that dog gains a hundred pounds, he could run for senator in Massachusetts and win. LOL!
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posted on
09/11/2002 7:21:44 AM PDT
by
gridlock
To: Onelifetogive
Thank you for the laugh! =)
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posted on
09/11/2002 7:23:47 AM PDT
by
hunyb
To: Onelifetogive
The Kennedy's have always taken their dogs to work. G. Gordon Liddy is fond of re-telling a story that Bobby Kennedy, then the US Attorney General, would walk his dog in the hallway of the Justice Department making him crap in front of J. Edgar Hoover's office door.
To: noexcuses
What is a dog doing in the Capitol?
I'm not happy about it either, but the voters of New York elected her as their senator so we can't keep her out of there.
Perhaps someone could enforce the leash law though...
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