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DeLay's replacement says staff deleted records and files
Associated Press ^ | Nov. 16, 2006 | JOE STINEBAKER

Posted on 11/16/2006 2:50:17 PM PST by Dubya

HOUSTON - Just three days after being sworn in, U.S. Rep. Shelley Sekula-Gibbs wants Congress to investigate the destruction of files in her office by former staff members of her predecessor, Tom DeLay.

Sekula Gibbs said the staffers walked out of her office Tuesday, resigning en masse. A Capitol Hill newspaper, Roll Call, reported the staffers didn't like the way she was treating them.

Sekula-Gibbs said in a statement Thursday that seven employees in her Washington office and the district office in Stafford, Texas, outside Houston, "deleted records and files without my knowledge or permission" before quitting.

Spokeswoman Lisa Dimond told The Associated Press that the congresswoman had not yet gotten a response to her request for an investigation by the House's chief administrative officer.

Sekula-Gibbs, who is serving out the last seven weeks of DeLay's term, said the walkouts were "suspicious" in that the seven took the time to delete files before leaving without notice.

Dimond said other staffers discovered the work-related files were missing when they tried to access them.

Sekula-Gibbs has raised a few eyebrows on Capitol Hill in her first three days in office, largely because of the mass resignation.

She prompted chuckles in The Washington Post and other national publications by telling reporters she planned to resolve such thorny issues as tax cuts, immigration reform and the Iraq war - all in less than two weeks of a lame-duck Congress. And then her staff walked out without warning.

The aides' departure left her with a Washington staff of two former Houston City Council aides, an intern on loan from Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Flower Mound, and a congressional aide.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: delay; sekulagibbs; tx22
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To: maui_hawaii
It was the seat of the SPEAKER of the HOUSE nimwit

and you call me a nimwit? Perhaps you meant nitwit in your incorrect statement about the Majority Leader.

101 posted on 11/20/2006 6:59:05 PM PST by TWfromTEXAS (We are at war - Man up or Shut up.)
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To: TWfromTEXAS

Whatever. He was in the Republican leadership and one of the most high profile Republicans around. That is my point.


102 posted on 11/20/2006 7:01:00 PM PST by maui_hawaii
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To: deport

Oh man, give me a break. Clinton left the computers in what kind of mess--no investigation by Bush or anyone else that I remember.


103 posted on 11/20/2006 7:07:32 PM PST by Snoopers-868th
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To: humblegunner; Dr. Zoo
Who in the world would do that to little lovable ol' you?

You'd be suprized! On second thought, no you wouldn't...heheh

A director of Dr. Zoo's institute of Phenomonology. Wreaked some real havoc this one did. I was NOT a muzed.

104 posted on 12/20/2006 2:41:08 PM PST by Syncro (Goin' over some my old pings n pongs :>)
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To: ilovew
She's only there for a few weeks and she's causing trouble? Sheesh...

Shelley Sekula-Gibbs temporary term in Washington ends

(12/10/06 - KTRK/HOUSTON) - US Representative Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, no more. Her temporary position has ended.

Democrat Nick Lampson will be sworn in in early January to serve the next term of the 22nd district.

105 posted on 12/20/2006 3:07:55 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: sausageseller
DeLay's temporary replacement drives off staff on first day

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1739784/posts

106 posted on 12/20/2006 3:14:08 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: COEXERJ145

>>>Earle also goes after Democrats.<<<

That is misleading. It should have read, "Earle also goes after CONSERVATIVE Democrats".


107 posted on 12/20/2006 3:17:54 PM PST by PhilipFreneau (God deliver our nation from the disease of liberalism!)
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