Interesting you should ask! He has already issued a sort of disclaimer, just in case...
Rep. Sanford Bishop of Georgia has recently been in hot water for awarding Congressional Black Caucus Foundation scholarships to relatives. Reps. Maxine Waters and Charlie Rangel are fighting ethics charges. Have any of these controversies affected voter trust?
I don’t think so. Emily is active with the CBC scholarship fund. I’m not. It’s a spouse’s organization. I’m told that the spouses gave eight or nine scholarship to kids in South Carolina. If my life depended on it, I could not tell you the names of those kids. Sanford did not know. Look, I’ve been investigated, I’ve been sued (as S.C. Human Affairs Commissioner). All of them were lies. To be fair, Charlie Rangel said ‘I will stipulate to this’ and signed the agreement. Under the ethics rules, there are eight people, four Democrats and four Republicans. Everybody must agree to whatever the settlement is. One of the Republicans refused to sign it. That’s why it’s still out there.”
http://www.thegrio.com/politics/rep-james-clyburn-black-voters-dont-think-were-supporting-obama-sufficiently.php
Eddie Bernice Johnson didn’t use the ‘spouse’ dodge when she was caught.
Oops, guess she couldn’t, she’s divorced, so no one else to blame it on.
The ‘spouse’ connection is cute - double the opportunity for self-dealing.