Senator Orrin Hatch, "Vicious and Awful"

Senator Hatch was unable to garner 60% of the vote in his home state of Utah this weekend.   So the incumbent senator will face a primary this June to win his parties nomination for Senate.  Freedom works and other tea party groups have been assailing Senator Hatch with negative advertising.  After the vote the Senator gave these comments.

Senator Orrin Hatch: 4/21/12 comments quoted at 2:49 in video

I've got to tell you, we've got outside groups coming in here that are vicious and awful,  and they don't tell the truth and um that's been really hard for me to take

Senator Orrin Hatch: 2/14/2012

 Look, we all know that Planned Parenthood does 400,000 abortions a year or more, and yet that's supported by the federal government. They claim that money isn't, uh, they don't use federal funds, well, about 95 percent of all they do, from what I understand, is abortion.

Abortion is only 3% of what Planned Parenthood does and its really hard for us to take, when the senator does not tell the truth. 

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