Complaint: Representative Hank Johnson Violated Rules Assisting Former Aide Jon Ossoff

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 4-24-2017 | Brent Scher

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An ethics watchdog will notify congressional investigators on Monday of its finding that Rep. Hank Johnson (D., Ga.) used his office's taxpayer-funded resources to assist the campaign of Jon Ossoff, a former Johnson aide, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) says Johnson violated congressional ethics rules that ban members from using their office for partisan campaign activities, and will submit its complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics.

FACT says links to positive stories about Ossoff were posted on Johnson's official congressional website. Ossoff has worked both for Johnson's office and as Johnson's campaign manager in the past.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the links were removed from Johnson's website after it reached out to the office for comment over the weekend.

Specifically, FACT alleges that Johnson was using his official website to campaign for Ossoff, his former aide who is now facing off against Republican Karen Handel in the runoff to replace health Secretary Tom Price in the House of Representatives.

The group points to links to recent Atlanta Journal-Constitution stories about Ossoff and 6th District voting that were recently featured on Johnson’s official website. The links were removed over the weekend, shortly after the AJC requested comment for this story.

The House Ethics Manual states a lawmaker’s official website "may not include personal, political or campaign information."

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[LouAvul]

True. And equal responsibility demands equal capability. Just because some morbidly obese, functionally illiterate candidate for a position in law enforcement happens to be black should not entitle them to special consideration or preference over a better equipped white man.

And just because such a candidate, all other things being equal, happens to be female, but who is not capable of performing feats of strength necessary to the job, similarly should not entitle her to preferential treatment.

It seems like the only demographic content to be spit on and **** on in this country is the white male.

[DPMD]

Chaka Fattah, Jesse Jackson jr., three california dems in the last two years, including one running guns for dough, dianne feinstein’s billionaire hubby scoring billion dollar contracts... We could do this forever.

[Fireone]

You are correct, sad isn’t it?