Both Repubs on Foley Ethics Panel Have $$$ Ties to Hastert

[WilliamPitt]

Republicans on Panel Have Ties to Hastert
By David Jackson and Matt Kelley
USA Today

Thursday 05 October 2006

Washington - Both Republicans on the House ethics subcommittee investigating the Mark Foley scandal have financial ties to Speaker Dennis Hastert, whose handling of the former congressman's lurid Internet messages to House pages is under scrutiny.

Ethics Chairman Doc Hastings received $2,500 during the 2000 campaign from Hastert's political action committee, Keep Our Majority, according to PoliticalMoneyLine, which tracks money in politics. The six-term Washington Republican, who became ethics chairman last year, will lead the Foley investigation.

Rep. Judy Biggert of Illinois, received $6,000 from Hastert's PAC and $2,000 from Hastert's own re-election fund during the 2002 campaign, according to PoliticalMoneyLine.

Biggert, whose district neighbors Hastert's, said personal relationships and financial ties will not affect the investigation: "I think that all of us on this committee were chosen because we are thought to be fair."

Fred Wertheimer, president of the watchdog group Democracy 21, said the Hastert contributions undermine the subcommittee's credibility. "They should have brought in an outside counsel," he said.

Two Democrats, Howard Berman of California and Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio, round out the Foley investigative panel.

More: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100606A.shtml

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan-tastic. :grr:

[Vincardog]

1. BUT BUT BUT If the only representatives who could investigate

were the ones who did not get his dirty hush money; the DEMOCRATS would be the ones who had to investigate. GOD knows what they would uncover and leak.

[kestrel91316]

2. I think Howard Berman is MY rep..........

[AtomicKitten]

3. But Rep. Hastings says Dennie has done an excellent job.

Sounds ethical to me.