Old 2002 Article on Jim Talent from "The American Prospect"

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Talent for Deception
A centrist, straight-arrow image masks a right-wing, ethically challenged record.



Over in west suburban St. Louis, Talent, in the midst of a campaign that would eventually earn him the job of state representative, was listening to the program on his car radio. At Dobson's exhortation, Talent pulled over into a school parking lot, got out of his car, went down on his knees, bowed his head and accepted Christ.

"Today, this young man from Missouri is a United States Congressman who shares the Good News of Jesus Christ in the political arena," reads the conclusion to Talent's conversion drama on the Web site for the Luis Palau Evangelistic Association. Talent himself has said about Dobson and his own religious awakening, "He is the instrument through which I committed my life to Christ. It is the single most important thing that has ever or will ever happen to me."



But unlike Ashcroft, who is an unabashed conservative, Talent has consistently presented himself as a moderate, even a centrist, and most Missourians are unaware that his voting record places him squarely among the far right of the Republican Party.



# He repeatedly voted against raising the national minimum wage, including its last increase from $4.25 to the current $5.15 per hour.

# He voted against the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993, which allows employees to take 12 weeks of unpaid leave for significant family or medical reasons.

http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/20/ahmed-s.html

[ochazuke]

1. He a horrible piece of excrement and I hate him.

Effing NO talent