[Tinian]

However this gets spun, it STILL was a bad move to have federal $$ buy a truck from his dealership.. in this day and age one needs to be above reproach.

Are you painfully dim or just obtuse?

1) I, Don Congressman, get $1.5 million for my local Conservation District.

2) The Conservation District puts out bids for a truck.

3) The Company I own submits LOWEST BID for truck.

4) I, Don Congressman, who actually works in the House (and not at my car dealership) does nothing because, well, I was working in in the House (and not at my car dealership).

5) I, Don Congressman, get pilloried because I choose not to track every car sale made by my dealership because it's not possible (unless I illegally had my staffers do it).

You've set an impossibly high ethical bar. I'd like to see how you, in the same situation, would be able to meet it.

[NEPA]

Tinian, you're making too much logical sense for DC politics.

Unfortunately as the old saying goes "in politics perception is reality."

I think Sherwood is safe but he can sure be a dunderhead.