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.
I tried to get somebody in my golf group to bet me that the case wouldn't be thrown out ala Hutchinson and couldn't get a taken.
Earle is know here in Austin as a complete idiot, even with liberals (well, heck, he's their idiot) who wears loafers 'cause he can't tie shoelaces. He's a total hand puppet for his masters and coupled with his lack of any smarts whatsoever is ends up in a crack more often than not.
corruption WAS all over the place??? It STILL IS! Nothing has changed inside the beltway its just a different band of crooks.
That is total fodder. How utterly inept and asinine as well as childish.
Because..sometimes subordinates are
overzealous, and do stupid things.
Maybe you don't know how Washington works. It is not legal to use family and every politician does it. The want to make sure that at least some of their election staff they can safely confide it.
Sorry. It is not illegal to use family and every politician does it. There, thats better.
Did they steal the hyphen keys from her keyboards?
LOL bump
One way to help slow the crookery down would be to insist on TERM LIMITS, NOW!
Democrats who have tried to remove his powers to prosecute state officials.
Did they wipe the drives the files were stored on?
Did they follow procedures that would entirely remove any trace of the files?
If they didn't, the files can possibly be recovered.
Tom's problems were a result of his arrogance and political effectiveness. The mere appearance of impropriety must always be factored into every step taken, or you leave too much to be politicized against you.
"Now how much was it he paid to his wife and daughter to work in his election?? But then maybe that was just questionable ethics. Either way it was just wrong."
BULL. If he paid them $5.25/hour you would yell that he was cheap. If he paid them $50/hr you would yell corruption. Did they provide a benefit for a reasonable wage? That is the ONLY question.
shut up liberal....
joke ;)
Delay quit because even if he had been found innocent of all charges, the damage had been done to his reputation and he was certain to lose his Majority Leader post and maybe even re-election. His relatively weak showing in the primary proved it. Once you are Majority Leader, it's hard to go back to being a regular congressman.
So he quit so he could start the 1 year wait before he can legally become a lobbyist.
Her chief of staff and former council aide, Lisa Dimond, who has worked with the interim congresswoman for more than two years, said her boss is wonderful to work for. "She is a doctor and she has wonderful people skills," Dimond said of the dermatologist.
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