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"I sincerely believe I did not put pen to paper to sponsor that legislation,” she wrote in a commentary published in today's Star-Tribune. “I believe the error that occurred was clerical in nature, but how do I prove a negative? How do I prove I did not sign?”
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., introduced the bill on Sept. 21, 2005, with a dozen original co-sponsors listed, including Cubin.
The measure would require the federal government to quickly sell 15 percent of national forest lands and 15 percent of lands managed by Interior Department agencies, except national parks, to raise funds for Hurricane Katrina and other disaster relief. Cubin's staff told the Star-Tribune last month that, though she had no intention of co-sponsoring the bill, in a shuffle of paperwork she accidentally might have signed a document that listed her as a co-sponsor.
If Cubin's signature was on such a document, "we can only surmise that what happened is the wrong piece of paper got signed at a weekly members’ lunch meeting when a number of bills and letters get passed around to sign while speakers are giving their presentations," Cubin spokesman Joe Milczewski said in early January.
“She meant to sign something else, she didn't mean to co-sponsor this bill n in fact, she opposes it n and her name is being removed,” Milczewski continued in that statement. “Twenty pieces of legislation were introduced that day alone. … A mistake was apparently made that day.”
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