{"id":5389,"date":"2005-09-29T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2005-09-29T10:22:31","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T14:22:31","slug":"delays-admonishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/delays-admonishments\/","title":{"rendered":"DeLay’s admonishments"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a relatively minor point, but I’ve seen several news reports explain that Tom DeLay has been rebuked by the House Ethics Committee three times. That’s not quite accurate — he was reprimanded three times last year, but there have been five<\/i> admonishments over DeLay’s House career.<\/p>\n

* In 1997, the Ethics Committee rebuked DeLay, warning him that his fundraising pitches created the impression that campaign contributions would bring “official action or access<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

* In 1999, the Ethics Committee chastised DeLay for threatening a Washington trade association<\/a>, the Electronic Industries Alliance, with retaliation last year for hiring a Democrat as its president. The House was poised to consider implementation of an international treaty the trade association had requested, but DeLay used his influence to scuttle the treaty — just to show the EIA who’s boss.<\/p>\n

* In 2004, the Ethics Committee admonished DeLay for offering a political favor to then-Rep. Nick Smith (R-Mich.) in exchange for his vote<\/a> on Bush’s Medicare bill. It’s a violation of House rules for a member to “offer or link support for the personal interests of another member as part of a quid pro quo to achieve a legislative goal.”<\/p>\n

* A week later, the Ethics Committee rebuked DeLay twice in one day<\/i><\/a>, one for his role in misusing the FAA for partisan purposes and another for staging a fundraising event in a way that appeared to link access to him with political donations.<\/p>\n

This, of course, does not include ethical transgressions for which DeLay was investigated but that the committee didn’t pursue due to lack of evidence. It also doesn’t include the ongoing<\/i> investigation into DeLay’s Abramoff-financed golf trip, which will very likely lead to a sixth formal rebuke.<\/p>\n

And these are just the ethics<\/em> violations, unrelated to DeLay’s criminal conspiracy charge brought by a Texas grand jury yesterday.<\/p>\n

Something to keep in mind when considering the judgment of House Republicans who unanimously chose Tom DeLay as their leader. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a relatively minor point, but I’ve seen several news reports explain that Tom DeLay has been rebuked by the House Ethics Committee three times. That’s not quite accurate — he was reprimanded three times last year, but there have been five admonishments over DeLay’s House career. * In 1997, the Ethics Committee rebuked DeLay, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}