Recording of Picnic has Reichert's Boast That He Got Bus Driver Fired; Versions of the Story From This Week Say He Wasn't Involved

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SEATTLE -- U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert bragged at a Republican Party picnic last summer that the day after a school bus driver flipped off President Bush, he called the district's superintendent, giving the impression that he was responsible for getting the driver fired.

That differs from a version of the story told by school district officials and Reichert's staff this week: That Reichert didn't speak to the superintendent for weeks, and that by the time he did, the bus driver had already been fired. His press secretary said Friday the discrepancy was "not a big deal" and that at the picnic Reichert was just telling a story, not trying to reconstruct the timeline exactly.

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Recording of Picnic has Reichert's Boast That He Got Bus Driver Fired; Versions of the Story From This Week Say He Wasn't Involved

The bus driver, a 43-year-old single mother whose name has not been...

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