{"id":188761,"date":"2010-08-02T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/02\/another-ethics-investigation\/"},"modified":"2010-08-02T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T00:25:00","slug":"another-ethics-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/02\/another-ethics-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Ethics Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

This time, it’s Maxine Waters, who is alleged to have intervened on behalf of a bank that her husband had a significant interest in<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, in the past 4 weeks, the Ethics Committee has made a substantive move against 2 Dems, though Rengel’s ethics problems have been ongoing for months.<\/p>\n

I’m curious as to why this is all cropping up now, and I expect a 3rd<\/sup> shoe to drop.<\/p>\n

I would note that in comparison to what the Republicans did, Rengel is alleged to have done favors to people who contributed to a building named after him, evaded taxes, and misused rent controlled apartments, while Waters is alleged to have intervened on behalf of a bank where her husband served as a board member (though it was also the only minority owned bank in Massachusetts) is pretty mild.<\/p>\n

By comparison, with the Republicans, (rolling the Abramoff*<\/sup> Wiki<\/a>) you had people paid to lobby for slave labor in the Marianas, cheating Indian tribes, taking money from the gambling business while also taking money from anti-gambling activists, and lobbying for the genocidal monsters in Sudan.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, Democratic corruption appears to be rather quite lame in comparison.<\/p>\n

It is still reprehensible, but rather a lot like comparing a small snatch and grab with the Great Train Robbery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both crooks, but one of them has a bit of audacity.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Full disclosure: I went to school with, and served in the student senate with, one of his associates who has faced legal repercussions<\/a>, and my babysitter went to school with his daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This time, it’s Maxine Waters, who is alleged to have intervened on behalf of a bank that her husband had a significant interest in. So, in the past 4 weeks, the Ethics Committee has made a substantive move against 2 Dems, though Rengel’s ethics problems have been ongoing for months. I’m curious as to why …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}