Congressional Black Caucus Asks Congress to Restrict Power of Ethics Board

National Legal & Policy Center ^ | June 9, 2010 | Alana Goodman

[jazusamo]

Pelosi's new Office of Congressional Ethics panel to enable the "draining of the swamp" (which never took place) is now under fire from the Congressional Black Caucus. The CBC wants it gutted because it's an ethics panel that actually might work.

[Tarpon]

LOL ... what did you expect a bunch of scoundrels to do.

[PGR88]

CBC wants Gov’t run like some 3rd world country

[Danae]

Oh that will just make Charlie Rangle’s day won’t it?

The CBC should be abolished as the RACIST group that it is.

The MEMBERS of the CBC should be ASHAMED, and they should be removed from congress immediately for their racism. We should be calling for the removal of racists from congress, all of em, and that 100% includes every member of the CBC.

[chris_bdba]

That would be a big fat NO to the request if they want any chance of survivng November.

[MozarkDawg]

Last year, the Office of Congressional Ethics found that Fudge's chief of staff, Dawn Kelly Mobley, "improperly influenced" information that a group called Carib News Foundation provided to the House Ethics Committee. The Ethics Committee was trying to decide whether a yearly Caribbean trip the group sponsored for Congressional Black Caucus members violated a newly implemented ban on corporate-funded travel.

Its report found that Mobley gave "internal committee communications" to Carib News Foundation that helped it mislead the committee about the trip's corporate sponsorships. Mobley's actions occurred in 2007, while she was an ethics committee counsel to former U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Cleveland, who then chaired the Ethics Committee and went on the trip. The report indicated Mobley acted at Tubbs Jones' direction. Tubbs Jones died in 2008, before the improprieties came to light.

What's wrong with this picture?

[jazusamo]

Yep, I hope they keep making noise about it, just makes them look the corrupt bums that they are.

[TexasCajun]

Corrupt Black Caucus !

[GeronL]

Ethics are a white male racist construct

[TexasCajun]

Who controls and chairs the House Ethics Committee?

[Tarpon]

what I wonder is why do black Democrats see themselves as beyond the law ... with special privileges and perks.

[jazusamo]

We just can’t make stuff like that up, she and a lot more of them are brainless.

[Myrddin]

"This proposal brings Congress in line with America's judicial system by creating a process truly free of politics, avoiding trials in the court of public opinion, and stopping the premature release of reports," said Fudge in a statement released last week.

The Democrats loved skewering Newt Gingrich and Bob Livingston in the "court of public opinion", but don't want the same scrutiny applied to their misdeeds. Tough. If you do the crime, you do the time. That includes taking the heat of bad press as your misdeeds are revealed.

[jazusamo]

Zoe Lofgren is chair and Jo Bonner is ranking Repub.

[Spok]

“multiple members of the caucus have come under investigation by the board over the past year.”

Clear cut case of racism and profiling. /sarc

[rod1]

Turning our whole country into Detroit, one freezer full of cash at a time.

[Venturer]

Why are they frightened.???????

Because they are GUILTY.

CBC Klan with a tan.

A pack of racist blacks who are using their race to get elected and living like Kings and Queens .

[ClearCase_guy]

what I wonder is why do black Democrats see themselves as beyond the law incapable of ethical behavior

I dunno. I think they suffer from low self esteem.

[Navy Patriot]

Blacks cannot commit ethics violations.

[MEGoody]

Rep. Marcia L. Fudge

Must. . .not. . . .must. . .not. . .say. . .it. . .must. . .not

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