Posted on 10/10/2018 2:13:38 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
FULL TITLE: Nikki Haley was facing a formal complaint over ethics after series of private jet flights funded by businessmen from her native South Carolina.
UN ambassador Nikki Haley, who stunned Washington with her surprise announcement she is resigning her post, was facing an ethics complaint over her acceptance of private travel between South Carolina and Washington, D.C.
Haley had disclosed the flights on her government form for 2017. But the issue of improper private jet uses has dogged multiple administration officials, and led to the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed the complaint against Haley, who has earned high marks for navigating global affairs and the challenges of the Trump administration, on Monday.
The complaint noted she accepted flights from three separate businessmen from her home state of South Carolina on luxury aircraft between the state and Washington, D.C. She was accompanied by her husband on the flights.
Haley claimed exceptions due to personal relationships with the jet owners.
Federal ethics regulations prohibit employees from soliciting or accepting gifts given because of the employees official position. They also direct employees to consider declining otherwise permissible gifts if they believe a reasonable person would question their integrity or impartiality as a result of accepting the gifts,' according to the letter from CREW seeking an Office of Inspector General probe.
'Ambassador Haley asserted that each flight qualified for an exception to the rules for gifts based on personal relationships with the donors,' according to the letter. 'It is not clear, however, that the personal relationship exception applied to these gifts.'
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For a one-hour flight? Ethics violations - really?
And in light of Trump Admin officials and Republican legislators being harassed on planes and in restaurants - they gripe about a short-hop private plane flight?
I would argue it is fake news
I recently submitted a proposal for an international government contract. I was stunned at the economic wastefulness and personal hardship required by US travel laws. Contractors are REQUIRED to use US carriers even if the price is higher, even if there are more stops, and even if the travel time is up to 4 hours longer. In our case there was a non-stop foreign flight from NYC at a better price we couldnt consider.
Wait...what? She didn’t hide anything, reported the flights/methods, and had reason to believe they qualified for an exception because she had a personal relationship with those offering the services....but someone can try to pick it apart and tie her in with those who went the hide and hope nobody sees route ... sounds like a mini Kavanaugh attack...she “might” have bent a rule, at no cost to the government and from a job that’s not conducive to being helpful to many folks as she carries out Trump’s agenda in the UN....
-PJ
Of course, since you are wrong, it doesn’t matter
But the Trump hating Daily Smear will run any Trump attack 24/7.
This is all the resident swamp creatures, the liberal media and numbnuts like Anne Coulter flopping about to find a narrative that serves their interests. She will probably spend a few years in the private sector building a war chest and then run again for national office.
I was very disappointed in her too.
Sorry, fresh outta much "reason" in DC. d;^)
This state also paid a high price during the Revolutionary War hosting Cornwallis and his British army.
There is a lot of history to preserve, thank god they care about it, as they are one of the original thirteen colonies. I have relatives buried there from both wars. I also have relatives who fought for both the North and the South in the Civil war.
There is so much that has been lost. I personally am thankful for those who wish to preserve their heritage in any place. As I discovered in my adult years, your own family history sometimes turns our to be the heritage someone unconnected to you is saving.
Not every conservative has the same attitude toward global meddling. I'm a "USA first" kind of gal, and have the same respect for other sovereign nations. We are, and have been since the wars began, an uninvited invasion force in Syria.
What there are is too many people who want to erase the history and culture of the south and replace it with their globalist nightmare.
My personal experience is, politicians do this all the time.
Why are these people so stupid about these things?
I often wondered the same thing.
The Left thinks she should only fly commercial so she can get harassed and threatened by their brown shirts.
Did Nikki also sell the rights to America’s uranium, as did Hillary Clinton? If not, STFU. Investigate THAT!!!
Maybe you should not jump to conclusions, Good grief.
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