Lautenberg, Reid ask Bush to remove Armstrong Wiliams from White House Com

[NVMojo]

Lautenberg, Reid ask Bush to remove Armstrong Wiliams from White House Commission

Armstrong Williams, the columnist paid $240,000 by the Bush Administration to surreptitiously promote Bush’s ‘No Child Left Behind Law’ remained listed on the White House website as a member of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships as late as Wednesday, RAW STORY reported this morning.

In response, two Democratic senators have asked that Williams be removed from the commission.

Letter follows. Statement from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is forthcoming.

WASHINGTON, DC – In a letter sent today to President Bush, U.S Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) urged the President to remove journalist Armstrong Williams from his official position on the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. Earlier this week, it was revealed that the Bush Administration had paid Mr. Williams $240,000 “to regularly comment on during the course of his broadcasts,” and to provide Education Secretary Paige and other Education Department officials “the option of appearing from time to time as studio guests.” The President’s Commission on White House Fellowships runs the White House Fellows Program, a prestigious program that places young men and women as special assistants to officials at the highest levels of the Federal government for a one year term.

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[RandomKoolzip]

1. Nice baby step, Reid....

NOW! Go to the media directly and demand that he be fired from his job(s). That's what THEY do to us, remember?

[NVMojo]

4. this is the second step he has taken, the other was demanding

FOIAS to all departments under Bushco's grip for any other similar contracts with PR firms like the Ketchum/Williams deal and Reid, Lautenberg and Ted Kennedy asked for a return of the $240,000. That was last week.

[deacon]

5. Actually they should be calling an investigation into why the white house

used taxpayer for propaganda. What is the extent? Who ok's this? Did the white house break the law?

No brainer questions that deserve legitimate answers.

[Just Me]

6. An investigation has been demanded,...was posted yesterday. n/t

[RandomKoolzip]

7. Terminally cynical: I doubt that there'll be a real, independent

investigation. Everyone on the Bush team is immune to lawsuits, since God's on their side and all.

But if Reid and the ballsier Dems on the hill start holding some press conferences and hightening their media profile like Newt Gingrich used to do, then we might actually get somewhere.

[Cocoa]

10. I don't want Senators to tell the media who to fire

I'd rather they focus on Bush's responsibility, I'd rather they serve as oversight over the executive branch than oversight over the media, 1st amendment and all that.

We should be the ones demanding Williams be fired, and CNN would be a good place to start, especially after that egregious Crossfire where Begala fawned all over his buddy Armstrong. :puke:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. that they even had to ask

for this to be done shows the brazonnes of Bushco. I wonder if he'll say that he can't be impeached for all his crimes because he merely shredded the Constitution, and that isn't a big deal.

[Just Me]

3. I wish this were "a sign" *LOL*!!!

Weird. Armstrong was on a list for a prestigious program that places young men and women as special assistants to officials at the highest levels of the Federal government for a one year term.

Armstrong doesn't look that young to me.

[Moderator]

8. moving to GD

bluelemur.com is not an appropriate source for LBN.

[IronLionZion]

9. Go Reid Go!!!

Like I said before, give the man a chance and he may turn out to have a backbone after all.