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.
Ends up in a crack? He ought to get together with Marion Barry [rimshot]
or maybe since they weren't her files to begin with, she's got no right to demand them at all.
For a short time, she controls whatever money is left in DeLay's budget. I would think she could pay for a restoration attempt of the files from that money.
Yo Shelley! You are a placeholder for a very short period of time. No more, no less, so sit down and shut up.
You have no damn idea what you are talking about. You can hire anyone you want and his daughter Danni put in 60+ hours a week in the district working for him. She has a good political mind, especially for an aggie. His wife also did lots of work. We would see them at every political function held here.
BTW, the files are in several safe locations, one of which is Funk and Waggonal's front porch in a hermetically sealed mayonnaize jar
Sounds to me like DeLay and his people are lowlifes.
She did comment, however, that all seven employees had no visible skin blemishes.
Isn't it nice that she can use her actual qualifications?
I am a second Republican who won't put her head in the sand about the shenanigans surrounding MY party. You are so correct. How anyone can talk about DeLay being honest after that stunt of running in the primary and then moving so we now lost the seat in the general is beyond me.
Deleting files is suspicious and I would have turned it over as well. These are not DeLay files but files that belong to the Congress.
They could have been personal files like contacts and passwords.
DeLay and similar types of republicans (ie people who are arrogant and morally inept) are one of the main reasons why we are no longer in control of Congress.
I think the law says these files belong to the people who paid for them, delay's people destroyed files belonging to the American tax payer and they all should go to jail if the did that they are no better than the clitoons crowd and what they did to tax payers property.
Who in the world would do that to little lovable ol' you?
What part do you not understand about questionable ethics.
It's people like you who would say it's great to have someone like Foley, he's just sending prank emails.
These are not DeLay files but files that belong to the Congress."
Gee- I thought the items in the White House belonged to the American people, but the Clintoons didn't seem to think so.
With the files missing, or erased, do we know if they were DeLay's property or taxpayer property???
Just like the Dems have to prevent the mere appearance of impropriety, right? LOL
He was not convicted of any crimes, just the victim of Ronnie Earle,
I do hope it was a joke........thanks
Agreed.....just because "they" do it....well, I hold myself to a higher standard as I see you do to.....
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