Pombo's "Refreshing" Tax Payer Funded Vacation

It's got to be refreshing to be able to hand out talking points to your cronies and whistle when you need them to defend you publicly from your latest scandal.

Regarding Pombo's now famous tax payer funded vacation:

Pombo spokesman Brian Kennedy: “Frankly, I think it should be refreshing for people to know that Chairman Pombo is the kind of guy who will jump behind the wheel of an RV and drive 5,000 miles to see … and learn about the national parks that taxpayers pay him to oversee,”

Larry Hite, president of the Tracy Rotary Club: "Actually, I found it rather refreshing to hear that an elected public official was getting out and actually seeing this country on his own and viewing our land and its resources from the layman’s view. "

JEAN SAGOUSPE, president - Westlands Water District - Los Banos: "This a refreshing approach from a committee that has jurisdiction over the largest physical territory of any committee in Congress, more than 9,643,440 kilometers of total land and water area and 30,337.5 kilometers of coastline."