this charge leveled against me is so obviously
a political move with the sole
purpose of discrediting me as a candidate for
Congress that it should be
evident to anybody with eyes to see first of
all the tip-off is the fact
that this company of mine with which I've been
associated has been operating
successfully for more than 20 years during
which time this program has been
used by more than 3,000 separate communities
all over the entire United
States with better than 140,000 individual
merchants taking part and
you never heard a single squabble or a single
bit of interference until now
when I'm a candidate for Congress the second
tip off that is so obvious to
what they're trying to do is the fact that they
have set this hearing in
Washington without my knowing anything about it
on July the 22nd two days prior
to the election so that I have to spend all my
time between now and then on
legal matters and have to be in Washington two
days ahead of the
election it's just as obvious as the nose on
your face and I think it's a
pretty dirty trick