August 18, 2008
Mike Erickson: Humanitarian & Sleaze
Meet Mike Erickson: Republican, US congressional candidate from Oregon, and a humanitarian with a keen interest in Cuba.
Mr. Erickson is so worried about Cubans suffering that he traveled to Cuba in 2004 himself with medical supplies in hand to deliver them to a Cuban charity for the disabled. This selfless act was carried out even though his trip just happen to coincide with the "Comandante Fidel Castro's Annual Gala Cigar Dinner and Auction." Quite an impressive feat carried out by Mr. Erickson, delivering these supplies to doctors in a hospital. Especially when he also found time to whoop it up in the festivities going on in Havana at the time.
Indeed it would be a very impressive display of time management by the candidate except for the fact that the Oregonian newspaper discovered that the hospital he claims to have delivered the supplies to does not exist. Also, the man who planned his trip indicated that the few supplies that were taken to Cuba on that particular trip were minimal and taken only to fulfill the US State Department's requirements to qualify the trip as a humanitarian one.
You can read all about Mr. Erickson's humanitarian mission HERE.
Posted by Alberto de la Cruz at August 18, 2008 08:49 AM
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he hand delivered medical supplies? Crown this man! Did he not realized that we already send Cuba hundereds of millions of dollars worth of medicine already? Sounds like he just wanted a nice excuse for a Carribean vacation!
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at August 18, 2008 09:23 AM
This guy looks like one of the deviant hillbillies from the movie "Deliverance."
Posted by: asombra at August 18, 2008 10:11 AM
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