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 believed DeLay was innocent right up to the point he failed to jump back into the race after the court ruled against the party naming a replacement. I seem to remember he explaining on Edd Hendey's show how he was withdrawing to improve the odds of holding the seat. After he failed to junp back in the race I couldn't help but think someone (Ronnie Earle?) had made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
I would never argue that there's a level playing field quite the contrary it is precisely because of the bias that places an unfair burden on Conservatives. The strategic imperative is to understand the rules of the game well enough to use it against THEM, not visa versa!
I'm quite sure all Congressional members that leave office ged rid of their files. Gee.....the information belongs to Delay and he or his staff have every right to do what they want with their own property. Who is this woman and what staff left her? Staff she hired or brought with her?
She has to ruin these people ala Hitlery and the travel office. After all, they didn't keep her screaming, kicking, toddler temper tantrum a secret.
lol
Earle goes after conservative Democrats.
Because as mentioned above, they were going to hound him into bankruptcy and smear him beyond all hope (it was daily attacks in the Houston paper).
"especially for an aggie"
LOL, nice of you not to hold that against her. ;)
Yes. How dare he allow people to lie about him and a corrupt prosecutor to indict him on bogus charges. Clearly it's all his fault.
Ah, guilty until proven innocent. Nice, especially given Earle's record.
My guess is that most of the deleted files contain the phrase "that Gibbs b!tch".
That is one thing about Earle: it's not always about politics. Sometimes it's personal.
B-I-N-G-O
No, it wasn't all his fault. He knew the prosecutor, he knew Earl's M.O.
He knew how politics is played
he was a master player, and he knew he was a RICH TARGET, yet?
Yes. How dare he run for office and take a leadership position? How dare he attempt to win majorities for his party. He should know that Democrats don't have to adhere to the law.
I hear you I didn't write the rules but you know rules is rules. Politics isn't beanbag. Tom gave as good as he got. Had he been a little more cautious who knows I didn't throw him out. Hell I admired him and still do. You either play the rules or they play you.
Am I the only one here who reads this as the infantile chatter of someone who has absolutely no idea of her position in life - and who is just a tad miffed that seven staffers would want to depart rather than to work for her??
(Sorry lady, you don't need or warrant access to my address book)
The burden of proof is on Ronnie Earle and so far he hasn't proved a thing.
Tom DeLay has always played by the rules and the charges will be dropped but the damage has been done.
The only think he did wrong he was effective and the Dems were out to get rid of him, no matter what.
He resigned because his legal bills were eating him alive and he wasn't willing to put his family through anymore of the BS Earle was dishing out. The Democrats hated DeLay because he was effective.
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