Chertoff and Lettuce: Too Funny!
The Lettuce War heats up. Sen. Ken Salazar and DHS are miffed. Really miffed:
A fruit and vegetable basket prompted blistering criticism Wednesday between two members of Colorado’s congressional delegation.
Democratic Sen. Ken Salazar accused anti-illegal-immigration firebrand Rep. Tom Tancredo, a Littleton Republican, of “playing political stunts” and “compromising the national security of this country and the economic security of our future.”
The comment came after Tancredo attempted to send a basket of lettuce, apples and other produce to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Tancredo said he wanted to protest Chertoff’s recent comment to reporters that crops are rotting in the fields because immigration agents are arresting workers.
Tancredo, told of Salazar’s comment, lobbed his own verbal bomb.
“It may be a political stunt,” Tancredo said of the basket delivery, “but his own comment about it is political idiocy.”
The Department of Homeland Security refused to accept the basket, citing security concerns.
This is the same DHS that allowed a man with a fake matricula card to get into its Washington headquarters.
