On 09-17-10, ROSS SAUER said to TIM RICHARDSON:
"TIM RICHARDSON -> MODERATOR" <1:123/140> wrote in RS>news:10228$ALL-POLITICS@JamNNTPd:
This is today's GOP.
This is today's democrat party.
Obstruct and delay. For crass political games.
Lie, cheat, steal, blame the republicans. The rule of law isn't
meant TR> for democrats.....only everybody else:
Shock Audio: Facing "Obligations" From Leadership, Democrat
Congresswoman Leaves Voicemail for Lobbyist Cash - Big Government
A couple weeks ago, House Member Eleanor Holmes Norton made a
fundraising call to a lobbyist. The lobbyist wasn't available, so
Holmes Norton left a voicemail.
Once again, not-so-Breitbart lies and distorts.
Big Government takes a big swing and a miss at Norton
September 16, 2010 9:06 pm ET
Andrew Breitbart's Big Government is pushing what it calls "Shock Audio" RS>of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) soliciting a campaign RS>donation from a lobbyist. In fact, there is nothing unusual about RS>soliciting a donation from a lobbyist.
http://tinyurl.com/3249eo6
I notice you deleted the part that talks about much of what she did was in violation of Congress' own rules.
Here are just a `few' concerns:
She tells this lobbyist that she is a senior member of Congress who "...chairs a subcommittee highly relevant to his *sector*".
That is a veiled threat of possible problems with this `subcommittee' action
in his "sector" if donations to her are not forthcoming.
It is a violation to do what she's attempting here; 18 U.S.C. 600.
Further.....threatening to withhold or deny a government payment unless a political contribution is made......is guilty of a violation of 18 U.S.C. 601.
Now....lets go into the violation of Congress' own rules (which you *also* conveniently deleted):
House Ethics Manual 2008 Edition:
p.147 "No solicitation of a campaign or political may be linked to an action taken or to be taken by a member...."
The paragraph is quite lengthy.
Oh and by the way.....there's also the question of `from where' this phone
call was made! It is illegal to solicit campaign funds on federal property.
And it isn't as though this woman doesn't know all this. She has a degree in law from Yale.....clerked for a U.S. District judge, was a law professor at NYU, and is currently a tenured law professor at Georgetown University.
So much for your little `pooh pooh' of the facts.
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