Donor to DeLay Defense Fund Put on Ethics Panel

[BlueInRed]

that old double standard is alive and well.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&ncid=584&e=5&u=/nm/20050202/pl_nm/congress_delay_dc

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A contributor to U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay's defense fund was named on Wednesday to the House ethics committee, which twice last year admonished the Texas Republican.

In a shake-up of the bipartisan panel that critics called part of a purge and a "shutdown" of ethics enforcement, Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, also replaced the chairman, Joel Hefley, a Colorado Republican, with Washington state Republican Doc Hastings, who was already on the panel.

Hefley's term as chairman was up. Though it could have been extended, Hastert decided to replace him for the 109th Congress, which began last month.

Hastert also named to the panel Rep. Lamar Smith (news, bio, voting record), a Texas Republican who has donated to a defense fund that DeLay established in 2000 after Democrats filed a civil racketeering suit, later settled, over his fund-raising network.
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[zbdent]

1. I'm sure he can be fair and impartial

and not beholden to save friends' asses . . .

:eyes:

[borg5575]

2. So what else is new?