Within a letter titled "Abercrombie missed key intelligence vote" in today's (12/15/04) Honolulu Advertiser, former candidate Dalton Tanonaka wrote "I don't mean to come across as a sore loser, but in the first significant vote in Congress following his re-election, where was Neil Abercrombie?" He notes that the vote was held on December 7 and that Abercrombie was not there.
I found the answer in the paper just two pages later, where there was a large box on the Obituaries page noting that Abercrombie's mother passed away on December 4.
The answer to "Where was Neil?" becomes pretty darned obvious. If Tanonaka (and also the creator of the website he mentions, who appears to be a disgruntled former employee of Abercrombie) had bothered to simply pick up the phone and call Amercrombie's office, they would've known where he was! Shame on them.
Perhaps this glaring lack of extremely basic research skills is why Tanonaka lost the election.
My sympathies to Abercrombie on the loss of his mother.
I found the answer in the paper just two pages later, where there was a large box on the Obituaries page noting that Abercrombie's mother passed away on December 4.
The answer to "Where was Neil?" becomes pretty darned obvious. If Tanonaka (and also the creator of the website he mentions, who appears to be a disgruntled former employee of Abercrombie) had bothered to simply pick up the phone and call Amercrombie's office, they would've known where he was! Shame on them.
Perhaps this glaring lack of extremely basic research skills is why Tanonaka lost the election.
My sympathies to Abercrombie on the loss of his mother.
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