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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2002

"You may never have heard of Conrad Burns. Let me tell you a little about him.

Mr. Burns is a Republican senator from Montana. If a vote comes up in the Senate on whether to keep Mr. Lott as majority leader, Mr. Burns will be one of the 51 Republicans who get to decide.

Back in 1994, while campaigning for a second term, Mr. Burns dropped by a local newspaper, The Bozeman Daily Chronicle, and told an editor an anecdote about one of his constituents, a rancher who wanted to know what life was like in Washington, D.C.

The senator said the rancher asked him, 'Conrad, how can you live back there with all those niggers?'

Senator Burns said he told the rancher it was 'a hell of a challenge.'"

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Relevant Links:
Sen. Conrad Burns - http://burns.senate.gov