DNC: Reality Catches Up With Representative No. 1

[Omaha Steve]

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=72530

DNC: Reality Catches Up With Representative No. 1

Leading Symbol of GOP Culture of Corruption Pleads Guilty

9/15/2006 1:33:00 PM

To: National Desk

Contact: Stacie Paxton or Damien LaVera, 202-863-8148, both of the Democratic National Committee

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following release was issued today by the Democratic National Committee:

Ohio Republican Congressman Bob Ney's guilty plea may mean his long denial is finally coming to an end, but it doesn't mean the Republicans in Columbus or Washington are wrapping up their culture of corruption. From Republican House Majority Leader John Boehner, to the Bush White House and the Republican Senate leadership, the GOP's culture of corruption is still strong in Washington.

Instead of working to provide the American people with the honest leadership and open government they deserve, new reports show that Republicans in Congress are backing away from promised ethics reforms. After pledging to join Democrats in cleaning up the ethics scandals Republicans have brought to Washington, "GOP leaders in both chambers have indicated the legislation won't be addressed until after the Nov. 7 elections." (North County Times, 9/8/06) Worse still, Washington Republicans have "scaled back their ethics agenda because of divisions among Republicans." (Reuters, 9/14/06)

Congressman Ney also agreed to participate in the ongoing Justice Department investigation into scandal-plagued Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, an investigation that reaches from the halls of Congress all the way into the White House. In the trial that led to the conviction of the White House's former chief procurement office David Safavian on charges of lying to hide his relationship with Abramoff, "prosecutors introduced a photograph of Ney and Abramoff standing next to a private jet that whisked them and other members to a golf outing in Scotland." (Associated Press, 9/15/06)

"As important as Congressman Ney's guilty plea is, he is just one figure in the Republicans' far-reaching pay-to-play scheme in which partisan campaign contributions bought access and policy outcomes for favored special interests," said Democratic National Committee Press Secretary Stacie Paxton. "From Columbus to Congress, the interests of America's working families have taken a back seat as the Republicans have put their favorite special interests ahead of what's good for America. For working families, the results have been disastrous: huge tax breaks for the energy and pharmaceutical companies even as the American people pay skyrocketing energy and health care costs.

FULL story at link above.

[texpatriot2004]

1. Someone had Ney over a barrel for this to be his best option nt

[texpatriot2004]

2. Hmm, who will be next to fall? jackinthehouse.org - link below

http://www.jackinthehouse.org/