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DeLay's replacement says staff deleted records and files
Associated Press ^ | Nov. 16, 2006 | JOE STINEBAKER

Posted on 11/16/2006 2:50:17 PM PST by Dubya

HOUSTON - Just three days after being sworn in, U.S. Rep. Shelley Sekula-Gibbs wants Congress to investigate the destruction of files in her office by former staff members of her predecessor, Tom DeLay.

Sekula Gibbs said the staffers walked out of her office Tuesday, resigning en masse. A Capitol Hill newspaper, Roll Call, reported the staffers didn't like the way she was treating them.

Sekula-Gibbs said in a statement Thursday that seven employees in her Washington office and the district office in Stafford, Texas, outside Houston, "deleted records and files without my knowledge or permission" before quitting.

Spokeswoman Lisa Dimond told The Associated Press that the congresswoman had not yet gotten a response to her request for an investigation by the House's chief administrative officer.

Sekula-Gibbs, who is serving out the last seven weeks of DeLay's term, said the walkouts were "suspicious" in that the seven took the time to delete files before leaving without notice.

Dimond said other staffers discovered the work-related files were missing when they tried to access them.

Sekula-Gibbs has raised a few eyebrows on Capitol Hill in her first three days in office, largely because of the mass resignation.

She prompted chuckles in The Washington Post and other national publications by telling reporters she planned to resolve such thorny issues as tax cuts, immigration reform and the Iraq war - all in less than two weeks of a lame-duck Congress. And then her staff walked out without warning.

The aides' departure left her with a Washington staff of two former Houston City Council aides, an intern on loan from Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Flower Mound, and a congressional aide.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: delay; sekulagibbs; tx22
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To: buffyt
"just the victim of Ronnie Earle, who also went after Kay Bailey Hutchinson"

I tried to get somebody in my golf group to bet me that the case wouldn't be thrown out ala Hutchinson and couldn't get a taken.

Earle is know here in Austin as a complete idiot, even with liberals (well, heck, he's their idiot) who wears loafers 'cause he can't tie shoelaces. He's a total hand puppet for his masters and coupled with his lack of any smarts whatsoever is ends up in a crack more often than not.

21 posted on 11/16/2006 3:08:38 PM PST by Proud_texan
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To: NorCalRepub

corruption WAS all over the place??? It STILL IS! Nothing has changed inside the beltway its just a different band of crooks.


22 posted on 11/16/2006 3:14:10 PM PST by SouthernBoyupNorth ("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
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To: Dubya

That is total fodder. How utterly inept and asinine as well as childish.


23 posted on 11/16/2006 3:14:54 PM PST by Paige ("Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." --George Washington)
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To: NorCalRepub

Because..sometimes subordinates are
overzealous, and do stupid things.


24 posted on 11/16/2006 3:15:33 PM PST by NickatNite2003
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To: org.whodat
Now how much was it he paid to his wife and daughter to work in his election?? But then maybe that was just questionable ethics. Either way it was just wrong

Maybe you don't know how Washington works. It is not legal to use family and every politician does it. The want to make sure that at least some of their election staff they can safely confide it.

25 posted on 11/16/2006 3:18:07 PM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Logical me
It is not legal to use family and every politician does it.

Sorry. It is not illegal to use family and every politician does it. There, thats better.

26 posted on 11/16/2006 3:23:56 PM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Dubya

Did they steal the hyphen keys from her keyboards?


27 posted on 11/16/2006 3:27:16 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)
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To: Fresh Wind
Did they steal the hyphen keys from her keyboards?

LOL bump

28 posted on 11/16/2006 3:28:19 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat (Pence for MinL; Giuliani-Watts, Giuliani-Sanford, Giuliani-Pawlenty, or Giuliani-Perdue in '08)
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To: Dubya
There is much more to this story.

Look for a book soon.
29 posted on 11/16/2006 3:32:27 PM PST by msnimje (You simply cannot be Christian and Pro-Abortion.)
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To: SouthernBoyupNorth
corruption WAS all over the place??? It STILL IS! Nothing has changed inside the beltway its just a different band of crooks.

One way to help slow the crookery down would be to insist on TERM LIMITS, NOW!

30 posted on 11/16/2006 3:42:55 PM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help m)
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To: buffyt
Earle also goes after Democrats.

Democrats who have tried to remove his powers to prosecute state officials.

31 posted on 11/16/2006 3:44:32 PM PST by COEXERJ145 (Just one day without polls would be nice.)
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To: Dubya

Did they wipe the drives the files were stored on?

Did they follow procedures that would entirely remove any trace of the files?

If they didn't, the files can possibly be recovered.


32 posted on 11/16/2006 3:45:01 PM PST by MD_Willington_1976
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To: buffyt

Tom's problems were a result of his arrogance and political effectiveness. The mere appearance of impropriety must always be factored into every step taken, or you leave too much to be politicized against you.


33 posted on 11/16/2006 3:47:26 PM PST by dgallo51 (DEMAND IMMEDIATE, OPEN INVESTIGATIONS OF U.S. COMPLICITY IN RWANDAN GENOCIDE!)
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To: org.whodat

"Now how much was it he paid to his wife and daughter to work in his election?? But then maybe that was just questionable ethics. Either way it was just wrong."

BULL. If he paid them $5.25/hour you would yell that he was cheap. If he paid them $50/hr you would yell corruption. Did they provide a benefit for a reasonable wage? That is the ONLY question.


34 posted on 11/16/2006 3:50:46 PM PST by lawdude (The dems see Wal-Mart as a bigger threat to the US than muslim terrorists)
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To: Dubya

35 posted on 11/16/2006 3:50:58 PM PST by Stallone (Only RINOs Can Squander Political Power & Opportunity)
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To: NorCalRepub

shut up liberal....










joke ;)


36 posted on 11/16/2006 3:53:40 PM PST by chasio649
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To: Dubya
Maybe the staff didn't like working for someone honest.
 
Maybe they didn't want to work for a democRAT.

37 posted on 11/16/2006 3:54:44 PM PST by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: Dubya
She prompted chuckles in The Washington Post and other national
publications by telling reporters she planned to resolve such thorny issues as
tax cuts, immigration reform and the Iraq war - all in less than two
weeks of a lame-duck Congress. And then her staff walked out without warning.


That's beautiful.
As they say in show bidness, "you couldn't write this stuff".
38 posted on 11/16/2006 3:58:49 PM PST by VOA
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To: CenTex

Delay quit because even if he had been found innocent of all charges, the damage had been done to his reputation and he was certain to lose his Majority Leader post and maybe even re-election. His relatively weak showing in the primary proved it. Once you are Majority Leader, it's hard to go back to being a regular congressman.

So he quit so he could start the 1 year wait before he can legally become a lobbyist.


39 posted on 11/16/2006 4:03:55 PM PST by KingKenrod
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To: Wolverine
Sekula-Gibbs wants probe over destroyed files

Her chief of staff and former council aide, Lisa Dimond, who has worked with the interim congresswoman for more than two years, said her boss is wonderful to work for. "She is a doctor and she has wonderful people skills," Dimond said of the dermatologist.

40 posted on 11/16/2006 4:08:21 PM PST by Dubya (Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me)
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