The story has been diaried before about the school bus driver in suburban Seattle who was fired after flipping Bush the bird during a fundraising trip here several months ago.
BUT...AP has THIS:
U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert bragged at a Republican Party picnic last summer that the day after a school bus driver flipped off President Bush, he called the district's superintendent, leaving picnic-goers with the impression that he was responsible for getting the driver fired.
That differs from a version of the story told by school district officials and Reichert's staff this week: that Reichert didn't speak to the superintendent for weeks, and that by the time he did, the bus driver had already been fired.
Now I'll grant that flipping anyone the bird with a busload of schoolkids behind you isn't exactly smart (although to be fair, if I'd have had the same opportunity, would I have been able to resist? Probably not). But I thought firing this person was a little over the top.
And now it turns out Reichert claims credit...even worse, BRAGS about it?
According to an audio recording of the event released by the state Democratic Party on Friday, Reichert gave the following account in a speech at the King County Republican Picnic on Aug. 12:
"And as the motorcade went by, the president and I drove by on I-5, the president was having a great time. He was waving at everybody, he waved at the kids. He got the biggest kick out of the kids leaning out the window to say hello to the president of the United States.
"The sad part of it is though, we got to the last bus -- and I won't tell you which school district this was -- the bus driver flipped the president off."
The audience groaned.
"So the very next day, you know what I did? I called the superintendent of that school district and that bus driver no longer works for that school," Reichert, a former King County sheriff, said to applause. "That's the old sheriff part of me still around."
What a lameass. Darcy Burner so needs to kick the shit out of this tool!