"a to the motherfucking k"/: latour on weapons

[Coffey, Mitchell R]

What's the source on this?  Having worked for the US Congress, I'm willing
to bet much of it is untrue.  Smells like political urban legend to me.

Mitchell Coffey

-----Original Message-----
From: Otto Sell [mailto:o.sell at telda.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 4:34 AM
To: lorentzen-nicklaus; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: "a to the motherfucking k"/: latour on weapons
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Otto

Cannot resist passing this along:

> WOW!
> This is frightening!!
> Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more
> than 500 employees and has the following statistics:
>
> *29 have been accused of spousal abuse
> *7 have been arrested for fraud
> *19 have been accused of writing bad checks
> *117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2
> businesses
> *3 have done time for assault
> *71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
> *14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
> *8 have been arrested for shop lifting!
> *21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
> *84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
>
> Can you guess which organization this is?
>
> Give up yet?
>
> It's the 535 members of the United States Congress.
> The same group that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to
keep the rest of us in line.
>
>