Dan Mongiardo in KY Senate Debate

On Health Care: Push for cheaper drugs from Canada

MONGIARDO: It is absolutely absurd that we as Americans are paying more for prescription drugs than our neighbors in Canada for medicines made here in the USA.

BUNNING: You're cashing their checks. You better look at your own portfolio before talking out of both sides of your mouth.

MONGIARDO: If I was trying to make money on my drug stocks, I wouldn't be pushing for cheaper drugs from Canada. I don't care about the money. I'm over here with middle-class families because they are struggling.

Source: KY Senate Debate, in Cincinnati Enquirer

On Homeland Security: Saddam is not my good friend

BUNNING: We have combined 22 different agencies of the federal government to make us more secure. Mongiardo doesn't understand that there has not been an attack over the last three years in the US. Do you think that's by accident or do you think it's by design? We have worked very, very hard. By combining intelligence, by confronting our good friend Saddam, the ugliest dictator in history, on their turf rather than on our turf, we have prevented attacks.

MONGIARDO: I'm concerned we are going to see another attack. Bunning's priorities are not to take care of the working class families of this state. Even though you think that I look like Saddam's sons, he is not my good friend.

Source: [Xref Bunning] KY Senate Debate, in Cincinnati Enquirer

On Principles & Values: Bunning has conduct that is unbecoming of a US senator

[Regarding Bunning saying Mongiardo looked like Saddam's son]:

BUNNING: I made an inappropriate comment, and for that I personally apologize to you. I would hope that you would do the same to my wife & my family for all of the horrible rumors that you & your staff have been circulating about my health.

MONGIARDO: You have conduct that is unbecoming of a US senator. You have conduct that is unbecoming of a Kentucky gentleman. So people are reaching, searching for an excuse for that poor conduct.

Source: KY Senate Debate, in Courier-Journal

On War & Peace: Can't allow troops to go into harm's way without body armors

MONGIARDO: How could you have allowed our troops to go into harm's way before they had the body armor they needed or the armored Humvees?

BUNNING: We got it from the horse's mouth - that's the secretary of defense, the head of the joint chiefs. We have looked out for our troops.

Source: [Xref Mongiardo] KY Senate Debate, in Courier-Journal

The above quotations are from Kentucky Senate Debate: Dan Mogiardo (D) vs. Jim Bunning (R), Oct. 11, 2004. Click here for a profile of Dan Mongiardo.
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