 In the ongoing saga of whether or not taxpayers will ever have to cough up $1 million for a museum honoring Woodstock, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer has brought this long, strange trip to an end.
| Goddamn him! I had a concession at the Wavy Gravy pavillion greased! |
Schumer called Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., to pledge to him that the money laid out in a labor spending bill will never be used for the "hippie museum."
| I understand the Country Joe exhibit was, like, awsome, if you were smoking the right stuff. My source told me they actually had two of the original Fish. |
"I trust him. This isn't a partisan issue. My goal is just to fix the problems," Coburn said. Coburn, who had originally engineered a ban on the museum funds last month, had been adamant the Labor-Health and Human Services spending bill be more clear about the use of undesignated taxpayer money and was planning to propose a vote to change the bill's language to make sure that it could never be used on the Woodstock museum. Due to Senate rules, Coburn would have needed a two-thirds majority — or 67 if all 100 members vote — a tall order for eliminating a potential "technicality," sources say.
According to Senate sources on Wednesday, Republicans were seeing tie-dyed red because of what they say was a backdoor attempt to maintain a provision — originally sponsored by Schumer and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton — to funnel $1 million to the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, and more specifically to the Woodstock Museum. |