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.
and you call me a nimwit? Perhaps you meant nitwit in your incorrect statement about the Majority Leader.
Whatever. He was in the Republican leadership and one of the most high profile Republicans around. That is my point.
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.
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.
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.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1739784/posts
>>>Earle also goes after Democrats.<<<
That is misleading. It should have read, "Earle also goes after CONSERVATIVE Democrats".
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