Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Politicians - Integrity and Ethics?
So, on a scale of 1 to 100, how would you rate the ethics of our politicians?...
FoxNews.com has this story "William Jefferson's Victory May Complicate Things for Nancy Pelosi":
"Jefferson won a runoff election Saturday despite being dogged by a federal corruption investigation and FBI allegations that he had $90,000 in bribe money in his freezer."
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"Sloan said it will be especially difficult to deny Jefferson a committee assignment because another Democrat under FBI investigation, Rep. Alan Mollohan of West Virginia, is in line to become chairman of a subcommittee that oversees the bureau's budget. Mollohan, whose personal finances have come under scrutiny, is now the top Democrat on the appropriations subcommittee that sets the budget for the Justice Department."
"The lingering Jefferson and Mollohan cases may increase pressure for creation of an independent Office of Public Integrity to investigate lawmakers' behavior."
'The concern is whether that culture of corruption was merely a campaign issue,' Sloan said, 'or whether they will follow through.'"
