Republicans on panel have ties to Hastert (money ties)

[donsu]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-10-05-hastert-ties_x.htm

Both Republicans on the House ethics subcommittee investigating the Mark Foley scandal have financial ties to Speaker Dennis Hastert, whose handling of the former congressman's lurid Internet messages to House pages is under scrutiny.

Ethics Chairman Doc Hastings received $2,500 during the 2000 campaign from Hastert's political action committee, Keep Our Majority, according to PoliticalMoneyLine, which tracks money in politics. The six-term Washington Republican, who became ethics chairman last year, will lead the Foley investigation.

Rep. Judy Biggert of Illinois, received $6,000 from Hastert's PAC and $2,000 from Hastert's own re-election fund during the 2002 campaign, according to PoliticalMoneyLine.

Biggert, whose district neighbors Hastert's, said personal relationships and financial ties will not affect the investigation: "I think that all of us on this committee were chosen because we are thought to be fair."

Fred Wertheimer, president of the watchdog group Democracy 21, said the Hastert contributions undermine the subcommittee's credibility. "They should have brought in an outside counsel," he said.
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:)

[tanyev]

1. What Republican in the House wouldn't have ties?

Independent investigator!

[Mist]

3. The Rethugs have set it up as an incestuous clusterf#ck--so everyone

has something on everyone else. Problem for them is, when it goes down, it'll go down big.

[habitual]

2. OK, OK, I'll set an investigation in motion by my

good friends that i have given money to. It will be FAIR!!!

and hey pages, don't contact the media with any new information, call our toll free number that we set up to stop any further information from surfacing to the public while we drag out this 'investigation' til after the election...

is it all making sense yet?