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OfCoffee: Sali Doing Better Than I Thought He Would

Absolutely. I was very tentative when he was elected. He wasn't my first choice. But he has redeemed himself as far as I have seen. Funny how the Trib likes to belittle him (like somehow the Trib is some bastion of intellect) but he is voted president of the incoming freshman Congressman class. He is leading the fight for single-purpose legislation which is one of the biggest problems with the system in D.C. And he votes against poorly structured legislation even when politically unpopular to do so. Yeah, he's fiesty and may not be the diplomat that Craig or Crapo is, but I want a fiesty guy in the House. He's not perfect, but he's doing better than I thought he would, and certainly better than most newspaper editors give him credit for.

OfCoffee



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.