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Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) opens fire on firefighters

By Payson Schwin on Jul 27, 2006 at 3:19 pm

who had come from Virginia to Montana to put out a 92,000-acre blaze. Burns told the firefighters, who earn $8 to $12 an hour and time-and-a-half for overtime, they had “done a poor job” and “should have listened to the ranchers.”

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