Kirk apologizes for comment caught on live microphone

Posted on June 12, 2015
Mark Kirk at Senate hearing
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is taking heat after he was overheard making a controversial comment about one of his colleagues. (Photo courtesy Facebook/Mark Kirk)

By Farm Week Now

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk may have underestimated the microphone in a Senate hearing room.

Kirk, R-Ill., followed the lead of late night talk show hosts who are offering one liners about Republican Senator and Presidential candidate Lindsey Graham’s joking claim that he would have a rotating cast of first ladies if he wins the White House because he’s single. Kirk used a word he might like to have back, calling Graham a “bro with no ho.”

A Kirk spokesman says the Senator apologizes to any he may have offended.

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