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Rep. Mollohan(W.VA) Steps Down From Ethics Committee(600K to 26Mil in 6 yrs?)
The Hill ^ | June 14, 2006 | Josephine Hearn

Posted on 06/14/2006 2:49:51 PM PDT by kellynla

Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) temporarily relinquished his position as the top Democrat on the House ethics committee Friday, two weeks after questions surfaced about his financial dealings.

“I have reluctantly concluded that the interests of both the [ethics] committee and my constituents would best be served by my temporarily stepping aside as ranking member while I deal with this attack,” the West Virginian wrote to House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) Friday.

Pelosi accepted his request in a press release, praising his work and calling the attacks “an attempt to deflect attention from the long list of Republican criminal investigations, indictments, plea agreements, and resignations.”

Still, it was Pelosi who placed a telephone call to Mollohan Friday morning to ask for his temporary resignation, a Democratic source said.

House Democrats have come under increasing pressure to demote Mollohan. The editorial boards of the Washington Post, and the New York Times, as well as the liberal-leaning watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington have all weighed in against him. The National Republican Congressional Committee last week began sponsoring automated calls in four Democratic districts urging constituents to demand that their congressman ask for Mollohan’s resignation.

Mollohan remained defiant in his letter to Pelosi. He called the allegations “meritless,” “frivolous” and “a concerted, politically motivated attack on my ethics.”

The charges stem from a complaint filed with federal authorities by the National Law and Policy Center.

To fill Mollohan’s post, Pelosi passed over the next ranking Democrat on the committee, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (Ohio), opting instead to elevate Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.). Tubbs Jones faced ethics questions over a 2001 trip to Puerto Rico which was initially reported as having been partly paid for by a lobbyist, a violation of House rules. Tubbs Jones has since amended her filings...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: congress; cultureofcorruption; mollohan; wva
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According to Bob Novak, Mollohan's net worth went from 600K to 26 MILLION in six years!
1 posted on 06/14/2006 2:49:56 PM PDT by kellynla
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To: kellynla

Culture of Corruption? Oh, I forgot; he's a (D).


2 posted on 06/14/2006 2:50:51 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: kellynla

It's culture of corruption!


3 posted on 06/14/2006 2:51:20 PM PDT by Dr. Ed Bravo (Contact "StarCMC" to join the Patriot Guard Riders ping list.)
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To: kellynla

Jeez. What'd he do, get Hillary to teach him cattle futures trading?


4 posted on 06/14/2006 2:52:05 PM PDT by Xenalyte (The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.)
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To: kellynla

Be careful what you ask for bump.

ROTFLMAO!


5 posted on 06/14/2006 2:52:21 PM PDT by roaddog727 (eludium PU36 explosive space modulator)
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To: kellynla

The Good Congressman's return on investment is almost as good as was The Former Twelfth Lady's when she was back in Little Rock.


6 posted on 06/14/2006 2:52:21 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: kellynla

He must of had HITLERY'S cattle broker.


7 posted on 06/14/2006 2:53:20 PM PDT by snowman1
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To: kellynla

sounds like a "windfall profit",better get Reid on the case.


9 posted on 06/14/2006 2:55:48 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!)
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To: kellynla
How long before the Black Caucus calls the snubbing of Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones racially motivated?

lolol
10 posted on 06/14/2006 2:56:35 PM PDT by Republican Red (Everyone is super stoked on Gore. Even if they don't know it)
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To: kellynla

Well, the guy's talents are/have been wasted on the Congressional ethics committee. He should be managing an ethical investment portfolio on Wall Street.


11 posted on 06/14/2006 2:58:39 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: kellynla
Oh, oh.......Pelosi bypassed the ranking member, Stephanie Tubb Jones, a black, for Howard Berman, a white. Just another example of the Dems consistently giving the backs of their hands to their loyal plantation peeples. Wait till Rush gets his hands on this, LOL.

Of course, Tubb Jones has ethics problems of her own, so Nancy had to dig into the third string.

I hope Berman is clean, as it looks like the Dem bench is getting thinned out.

Leni

12 posted on 06/14/2006 2:59:00 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Mi casa es su casa. Mi pais es su pais. Mi dinero es su dinero. Mi..............)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

ROFL ! another democratic showing us his corruption! there IS a culture of corruption in DC, and it's the democrats! I say we clean house in November and throw the bums (democrats) out !


13 posted on 06/14/2006 3:00:20 PM PDT by conservative physics
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To: kellynla
DEMOCRAT CULTURE OF CORRUPTION BUMP!
14 posted on 06/14/2006 3:00:50 PM PDT by demkicker (democrats and terrorists are intimate bedfellows)
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To: kellynla

New Democratic Yogurt! Now with more active corruption cultures!!

15 posted on 06/14/2006 3:00:54 PM PDT by edpc
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To: Republican Red

You read my mind.


16 posted on 06/14/2006 3:01:23 PM PDT by Talking_Mouse (Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just... Thomas Jefferson)
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To: kellynla
Pelosi passed over the next ranking Democrat on the committee, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (Ohio), opting instead to elevate Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.). Tubbs Jones faced ethics questions

Pelosi has faced her own, similar ethics questions, but Tubbs Jones is black and Berman is white.

17 posted on 06/14/2006 3:01:54 PM PDT by Bahbah (Democrat Motto: Why not the worst)
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To: kellynla

By the time this is done, the Democrats are going to wish they'd never heard of "The Culture Of Corruption".

Hey, does anyone have a scoreboard? I need to show a lib the truth.


18 posted on 06/14/2006 3:04:36 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: kellynla
If it's a (R) is "Culture of Corruption" if it's a (D) it's "Business as Unusual".

I have said that this tactic will backfire on them and it look like I was right. The RATS behave like there is still only three forms of news, NBC, ABC, and CBS. WRONG!!!!. They hit the Internet without a clue, and Fox news doesn't help them at all. The lies of their unindicted co-conspiritors (MSM) can be tracked by the pajamahadine in a heart beat and the real truth sent around the world as fast as an electron can move.

This simple fact makes me sleep better at night, knowing that the RATS will be exposed to the truth and they can't hide from the light of the truth.

19 posted on 06/14/2006 3:04:47 PM PDT by timydnuc (I'll die on my feet before I'll live on my knees.)
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To: kellynla
So they once again, pass over a black woman and install a white man.

Admittedly, she's a Moonbat Supreme, but they just keep dissin' dem blacks.
20 posted on 06/14/2006 3:07:19 PM PDT by digger48
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