Another Pot/Kettle Story

[rusty charly]

Republicans on Friday alleged that New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez violated congressional ethics rules by collecting more than $300,000 in rent from a nonprofit agency for which he helped obtain federal funds.

"There should be no place for the unethical pay-to-play politics of Bob Menendez in the United States Senate," said Jill Hazelbaker, spokeswoman for the campaign of GOP Senate candidate Thomas H. Kean Jr.

Menendez no longer owns the three-story house in Union City that he rented to the North Hudson Community Action Corp. beginning in 1994 until he sold it in 2003, said Menendez campaign spokesman Matthew Miller.

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060826/NEWS03/608260347/1024/POLITICS

[Kire]

1. More Straws

Menendez owned the building. He provided a service. They paid him for it. They didn't pay him for the federal funds.

Keep grasping Tom Wilson.