Wednesday, July 06, 2005
It's A New York Thing...
From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution via Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington:0 comments
Dean slam at GOP puts Democrats in tricky spot
By SCOTT SHEPARD, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is trying to get voters to hold the Republican Party responsible for the "culture of corruption" he sees in Washington, but Dean is getting virtually no help from fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives.
In the year since then-Rep. Chris Bell (D-Texas) filed a complaint that triggered the current ethics investigation of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), not one Democrat has initiated another complaint despite the pleas of outside watchdog groups.
House Democrats are victims of "a kind of mindset that too often creeps in in Washington —to get along, go along," Bell said in a telephone interview from his law office in Houston. "There's not a more adversarial act you can take in the House than an ethics complaint, and some people just don't have the stomach for it."
Here's something we NYers can actually do to help. We've sat for too long, crying the there's nothing for us to do, sitting in the bluest of the blue states. We've got the most liberal, progressive House and Senate representation in the country. So, picketing our Congressman is useless - he already agrees with us, and is in the leadership of fighting whatever it is that the right is cramming down our throats on any given day.
So, again, here's something we can actually do. Call your NY Representative and send a strongly worded request to have them file an ethics complaint against Reps. Bob Ney of Ohio and Duke Cunningham of California, for all the crap they've put this country through and all the money they've stolen.
posted by Gotham 3:02 AM
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