Posted on 01/30/2017 10:35:18 AM PST by ColdOne
A watchdog group is asking congressional ethics officials to investigate Rep. John Lewis (D., Ga.) and his chief of staff over apparent violations of House ethics rules, according to a letter released on Monday.
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust's letter is asking the Office of Congressional Ethics to probe Lewis chief of staff Michael Collins' dual roles in the congressman's Washington office and as the treasurer for his 2016 reelection campaign.
Ethics rules bar senior House staff from serving in any fiduciary role for a political organization, and specifically mentioned campaign treasurers as a prohibited position for such staffers.
FACT's complaint doesn't just target Collins; it claims that Lewis himself is culpable for ethics violations by his top staffer.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
John Lewis IS an Ethics failure.
They must be new in town. Everybody in DC knows that ethics rules only apply to Republicans.
Lewis is incapable of obeying the rules and everyone knows it.
So it must be.......Racism
While an agitator and liberal the man has apparently kept his nose pretty clean all these years. Don’t bring up crap that won’t hold when there’s bigger fish out there. I want to see the Marlin Soros brought in.
But, I thought he was an icon, and thus above mere mortal men!
Heh, heh.....Karma’s a beotch, huh, Lewis?
People living in glass houses ought not to throw rocks.
Maybe next time, you’ll keep your butt ugly racist pie-hole shut.
[John Lewis IS an Ethics failure.]
B-b-but... he’s a civil rights hero! /sarc
[John Lewis IS an Ethics failure.]
“B-b-but... he’s a civil rights hero! /sarc”
I bet that he though because he was a civil right hero he was above the law.
Sarcasm for those in Rio Linda.
Sorry, even those squeaky clean can be violators. The longer they serve, the more power they gain, and they believe themselves to be untouchable. If he's dirty...burn him.
he's a shifty one, that's for sure
John Lewis is bought and paid for....as dirty as they come. Because he marched no one dares touch him
DOn’t kid yourself
He's one plane above Hank Johnson....
And two planes under Maxine Waters..............................................
Dump him off the Pettus bridge./sarc
Haven’t they heard? The ethics rules do not apply to a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. There will never be racial harmony in this nation as long as segregation is practiced in the hallowed halls of Congress. Only blacks can belong to the CBC. When a Vietnamese was elected to a predominately black district in New Orleans, he was prohibited from joining the CBC even though his district was black.
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