I got an e-mail today from Kevin Bishop of Sen. Graham’s office, saying:
Lindsey Graham was about 15 minutes late for the debate…he didn’t miss the whole thing….
I wrote back:
Let me make sure I understand this….
I didn’t see him at the party at The Club House afterwards, and I asked Bob McAlister about that yesterday, after Bob mentioned having been up late talking to the senator. He said the reason I hadn’t seen him was that he was kept late in Washington. I took that to mean he got back AFTER McCain was looking out in the crowd for him.
So when DID he get to Columbia, and where was he when McCain was talking to supporters at the Club House?
I want to get this precisely right, and right now I’m confused.
HE wrote back:
LG was a few minutes late returning to Columbia from Washington for the debate. He was at immigration meetings.
He made it to the Koger Center about 5 minutes after the debate started but was not seated until about 9:35 during the first break.
Graham remained in the debate hall/spin room speaking to reporters after the event. He did TV and radio interviews.
He did not make it to the McCain post-debate party until McCain had departed.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
So there you have it.
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Is there any reason for the crazy formatting in Kevin’s second email? The way you’ve got it, it looks like he was doing Mad Libs: Senatorial Whereabouts edition.
I don’t know. Let me go back and check that. It didn’t look that way when I posted it…
It’s fixed now… although MY message still looks weird. I must not have stripped out the formatting…
Brad: Sorry if I unintentionally misled you. I knew Lindsey had seen the debate because we stood outside The Club House talking about it after Sen. McCain left. But he didn’t get back to Columbia until much later than he had planned because he was busy in Washington.