NBC News: 7 Things You Need To Know About Tom Coburn
7 Things to Know About Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)
1) After Sen. Tom Coburn got married, he began his career as a businessman. From a 2004 Washington Post story:
The wedding took place in the summer of ’68, and by the next summer they moved to Virginia, just outside Richmond, so he could help his father get a new business off the ground.
“I was focused on business, kind of driven. I was sort of aloof from the counterculture. I never even heard of marijuana,” he says. Coburn proved to be a spectacular businessman. He took over the lens division and grew it in just under a decade from about $100,000 in sales to $40 million to $50 million. When a strike broke out, he quashed it. When a Japanese competitor threatened, he proposed an overhaul that seemed financially reckless to everyone at the time, but that ended up saving the company.
What a great guy Dr. Tom is. We knew that . The fact that you are bringing all that up now says you think he needs to be sold. Senator Coburn has shown rigidity the past 2 years, favoring best I interests of his party over best interests of constituents. Sugar coating him does not make him less mistaken.