Senate Ethics admonishes Graham for campaign solicitations

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Ethics Committee is admonishing South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham for soliciting campaign contributions inside a federal building after a Nov. 2022 Fox News interview in which he asked viewers to donate to a GOP candidate.

Graham violated Senate rules and standards of conduct because he was in a Senate office building when he did the interview, the leaders of the ethics panel said in a rare public letter released on Thursday.

“The public must feel confident that Members use public resources only for official actions in the best interests of the United States, not for partisan political activity,” wrote Senate Ethics Committee Chairman Chris Coons, D-Del., and Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, the panel's Republican vice chairman. “Your actions failed to uphold that standard, resulting in harm to the public trust and confidence in the United States Senate. You are hereby admonished.”

Coons and Lankford wrote that Graham solicited campaign contributions for Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker's campaign committee “five separate times” during the Nov. 30, 2022 interview on Fox News.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-ethics-admonishes-graham-campaign-231018496.html

[RockRaven]

1. Oh no!!!! Not the dreaded... *whispers* ... Admonishing!

[NullTuples]

2. "You are hereby admonished." "I stand admonished" (then they slap each other with a dead fish)

It's like a bad British comedy skit.

[republianmushroom]

3. don't think "admonishing" Lindsey is going to leave a mark.

another one of those feel good things politicians do for there voters.

[Mz Pip]

4. Big wow.

Hardly consider that to be any kind of deterrent.

[angrychair]

5. Oh noessss

He was "admonished"

[Emile]

6. Verbal warning, big deal.