With Ethics in Question, GOP Seeks Answers

[Judi Lynn]

With Ethics in Question, GOP Seeks Answers

By Shailagh Murray and Chris Cillizza
Sunday, April 23, 2006; Page A05

The ethical furnace keeps getting hotter for House Republicans. Even Rep. Tom Reynolds, who heads the GOP reelection effort, is feeling some heat.

The four-term New Yorker is being targeted by a liberal watchdog group, New Yorkers for a Cleaner Congress, for taking "more lobbyist-funded luxury trips outside of western New York in the last three years than he has returned home to western New York." The group singles out jaunts to Pebble Beach, Calif., by Reynolds that have totaled $205,185 over five years.

Reynolds's office dismissed the criticism as politically motivated. "Just like the national Democratic Party, Jack Davis and his friends can't put forth any positive ideas, so instead they have to run negative ads and spread misinformation," said L.D. Platt, spokesman for Reynolds, referring to his boss's Democratic opponent.
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A Youngstown newspaper found that Charles Blasdel, the GOP front-runner in an open-seat race in Ohio and a financial adviser by profession, has about $50,000 in delinquent business taxes. Rick O'Donnell, who is seeking an open seat in Colorado, has drawn fire from Denver newspapers for including Environmental Protection Agency administrator Stephen L. Johnson's title on a fundraising invitation -- a violation of the Hatch Act. The event drew oil and gas officials with business before the EPA.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/22/AR2006042200995.html?nav=rss_politics

[bemildred]

1. Yep, definitely "politically motivated".

Going to beat this sucker like a gong.
:rofl: