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Democrats File Ethics Charge Against Sen. David Vitter
Talking Points Memo ^ | August 21, 2009 | Brian Beutler

Posted on 08/22/2009 7:48:29 AM PDT by smith5460

We've now obtained the complaint Louisiana State Democratic Party chairman Christopher Whittington has filed with the Senate Ethics Committee, charging that Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) used "appropriated funds to pay for town halls at which he engaged in campaign activity.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: 111th; democrats; ethics; townhalls; vitter
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1 posted on 08/22/2009 7:48:29 AM PDT by smith5460
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http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20090822/NEWS01/908220340


2 posted on 08/22/2009 7:48:51 AM PDT by smith5460
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Surprise, surprise! The Dems trying to taint another R before the 2010 elections. I expect lots more of this before next summer.
3 posted on 08/22/2009 7:50:21 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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Per Animal House, the DemonRats can EAT ME!


4 posted on 08/22/2009 7:52:34 AM PDT by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)
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Yeah, give Dodd and Conrad slaps on the wrist for their Countrywide sweetheart mortgages, but bust on Vitter for holding townhalls. Oh, and while they're at it, keep busting on Coburn for deliverying babies free of charge for poor women.

That is what passes for ethics in the Senate.

5 posted on 08/22/2009 7:53:26 AM PDT by dirtboy
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Vitter needs to do the same against the dems. Come on Republicans FIGHT back for a change. Go around the LIBERAL MEDIA.


6 posted on 08/22/2009 7:55:23 AM PDT by BlueAngel
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Politically motivated.

Can we bring charges against Polosi for lying to congress or the CIA?


7 posted on 08/22/2009 7:56:53 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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Looks like Chris Whittington has been drinking AGAIN - hope he only had to walk to file the complaint.


8 posted on 08/22/2009 7:56:58 AM PDT by MarkT
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[Surprise, surprise! The Dems trying to taint another R before the 2010 elections.]

A tried and true method they use. But the pubs are guilty also as they allow it to continue and will always be weak for not defending those who are innocent. After the dems lied about Delay and helped the left destroy one more good man, the democrats have run amok and will destroy any and all that do good and resist their evil.
They are the children of Satan, the prince of the power of the air, and their master. He was a liar and a murderer from the beginning.
Come Lord Jesus, rule and reign over all thine enemies!


9 posted on 08/22/2009 7:57:04 AM PDT by kindred (Facts are a stubborn thing, but people are even more stubborn and will deny facts.)
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“Potential” re-election challenger. Sorry dude, not a violation. These clowns would have objected to any Dem being mentioned. This is just like the Palin complaints.


10 posted on 08/22/2009 7:59:06 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Barak Obama: Proud Graduate of the Robert Mugabe School of Government and Economics)
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To: Doc Savage

Their are other things they “coughed” at the kangaroo court, but this is a family program :-)...


11 posted on 08/22/2009 7:59:41 AM PDT by taildragger (Palin / Mulally 2012)
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Melancon was the local Congresscritter, right? He's fair game for any Senator, anywhere, any time.

And vice versa. Still, if the Democrats now think it's OK for a local or state party chairman to file ethics complaints against folks holding Townhalls, it's time to get going and file complaints against all the Democrats who did so, and Fur Shur Barney Frank can't win on this one.

What America needs to spend its tax dollars on is tieing up the House and Senate for its members speaking of public affairs in public.(Hunh?) ~ It's the water down there in Lawziann ain't it.

12 posted on 08/22/2009 8:01:22 AM PDT by muawiyah
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...another "BORKING", is underway.

13 posted on 08/22/2009 8:07:49 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Zer0 to the voter: "Welcome to 'MY' DeathCARE ® Plan"...Sucker! ...now just die. :^)
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At least republicans are HOLDING town meetings.

Pure political games. The dums are desparate to change the emphasis away from them. Me thinks it aint gonna work this time.


14 posted on 08/22/2009 8:08:56 AM PDT by TMA62 (TMA62)
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“appropriated funds to pay for town halls at which he engaged in campaign activity.”
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Apparently disaggreeing with the dums on Hussien’s Deathcare is “campaign activity”. Also, it’s not “campaign activity” for dums to recite Pelosi’s and Hussien’s talking points about healthcare at their teleconference “town meetings”

Ya can’t have it both ways DUMS!!


15 posted on 08/22/2009 8:13:54 AM PDT by TMA62 (TMA62)
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Didn’t Obama just take 400 people to Montana for a town hall to politically advance his health care plan?


16 posted on 08/22/2009 8:14:36 AM PDT by Ben Hecks
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Hussein never stops campaigning, but that’s OK with the rats. Two black panthers get away with intimidating voters, that’s fine with the rats (the same rats who pretend they’re against voter ID because it would “intimidate” minority voters). A tax cheat over Treasury. WHY do the Republicans let them get away with this? They seem to think if they sacrifice the latest victim, at least the cannibal rats will leave them alone. But you’d think they’d learn that it never works that way.


17 posted on 08/22/2009 8:16:47 AM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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Laughable.


18 posted on 08/22/2009 8:22:22 AM PDT by dr_who
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Did they ever charge Jefferson, D,LA with an ethics complaint?


19 posted on 08/22/2009 8:32:09 AM PDT by Mouton
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Sheesh. These people have a lot of nerve. I'm posting the following in several locations as I see it as an example of the complete hypocrisy of the present admin.:

One of the last things Obama did before he left for vacation was to have a private meeting with Tom Daschle regarding health care.

Tom and Linda Daschle - the quintessential double dipper DC power couple. Tom Daschle’s wife, Linda, was recently hired by GE as a lobbyist. GE increased their lobbying budget by millions in the last quarter - an historic increase for the company. One of GE’s “specialties” is “health care”. LOL.

http://www.ge.com/products_services/healthcare.html

20 posted on 08/22/2009 8:37:56 AM PDT by khnyny (Barack Obama and Chauncey Gardiner: separated at birth)
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