3
Dec
2008
Would you Hang-Up on Obama?
Apparently Republican Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen did today!
TWICE!!!
Thinking she was being pranked by a radio show in South Florida, the Congresswoman hung up on President-Elect Obama this morning when he called her.
According to Ros-Lehtinen’s flack Alex Cruz, the congresswoman received the call on her cell phone from a Chicago-based number and an aide informed her that Obama wanted to speak to her. When Obama introduced himself, Ros-Lehtinen cut him off and said, “I’m sorry but I think this is a joke from one of the South Florida radio stations known for these pranks.” Then she hung up.
Moments later, Obama tried again, this time through his soon-to-be chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
“Ileana, I cannot believe you hung up on the President-Elect,” Emanuel said. And then–yes, you know what’s coming–she hung up on Emanuel saying she “didn’t believe the call was legitimate.”
Read the whole story – and how she gracefully recovered here and here.
Oops!
Tags: Barack Obama, Congresswoman, hang up the phone, Obama, president-elect, Rahm Emanuel, Ros-Lehtinen
This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 at 11:24 pm by mrosman and is filed under Current Events, Executive Branch, Legislative Branch. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
haaa I wonder how you are supposed to know if a call from the president is legitimate or not?
Chris stevens