Busy Man
"I certainly learned a great deal from 3,000 town hall meetings across my
home state of Tennessee over a 16-year period [in Congress]," Al Gore
recently told National Public Radio.
Three thousand town hall meetings? Really? The Competitive Enterprise
Institute (CEI) did the math. That works out to 187 meetings *per year*, or
one town hall meeting every other day for 16 straight years, including
weekends, holidays, vacations, and time spent running for president in 1988
and vice-president in 1992. All this -- while also serving in Congress?
"Makes you wonder where Gore found the time to invent the Internet," CEI
wryly observed.
(Source: "UpDate," newsletter of the Competitive Enterprise Institute
newsletter, July 1999)
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