Thursday, March 06, 2008

The latest on the National Republican Congressional Committee scandal

In addition to the vaporous audits since 2003, the NY Times is reporting that"Hundreds of thousands of dollars are missing". At this stage the presumption is that they were stolen, but given the Republican penchant for creative accounting and financing, it may not be long before we can put quotation marks around the word stolen. Fot the time being we can enjoy the mealy mouthed excuse from Tom Reynolds, R-UBlievingthis, attempting to explain why his appointee behaved so much like a Republican.
Mr. Reynolds said in a statement that he and the national Republican committee were possible victims of “an elaborate scheme resulting in financial irregularities” by a “long-serving professional staff member,” a reference to Mr. Ward. “At no time were there any red flags raised,” the lawmaker said.
And the reply from John Gerken, campaign manager for Jon Powers, a Democrat who is challenging Mr. Reynolds.
“Does Tom Reynolds ever accept responsibility for his poor leadership or does he just pass the buck?”


EXTRA GOODNESS: The NYT takes a moment to highlight the troubles of the NRCC.
The F.B.I. investigation comes at an especially awkward time for House Republicans, who are struggling to raise money for Congressional races in November.

Their job has been made even more difficult by the large number of Republican lawmakers — more than two dozen from the House — who have announced their retirements, and by a series of unrelated criminal and ethics investigations of other Congressional Republicans.

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