MN-01: Hagedorn deflects questions, terminates interview

[RandySF]

Rep. Jim Hagedorn avoided answering the majority of questions put to him Friday by Rochester-area media about his office's expenditures on printing and mailings that ethics experts have said should be the subject of a House ethics investigation.

"We got an internal review that I started putting together by someone who understands all these complicated rules," Hagedorn said at a public appearance at Channel One Food Bank in Rochester. "We're going to issue that review. And at that time, we'll talk about the whole nine yards."

The Republican congressman rebuffed questions for the next 2-1/2 minutes, then terminated the interview with a "have a good day," and walked away from the media group to his car.

Hagedorn has been embroiled in an ethics controversy since it was reported last week that Hagedorn's office paid $60,000 of his taxpayer-funded House allowance to a Texas-based company that was owned or partly owned by John Sample, a part-time staffer in Hagedorn's congressional office.




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[Wellstone ruled]

1. Golly, Jimmy is playing

Minnesota Republican,get caught,blame someone else. You think so Jimmy.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Hagedorn shows himself to be the asshole that he is..

He does not like me. His Facebook page often censors my responses. I am Civil and present facts.

Go to his Facebook, Congressman Jim Hagedorn. He posts about how a great job he is coing. His wife is the Chairwoman of the Minnesota GOP. Nor does Hagedorn actually live in the District, though he has a residence here.