{"id":1573,"date":"2005-04-16T18:06:21","date_gmt":"2005-04-17T01:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/continuing-ethics-controversy-is-harming-the-gop\/"},"modified":"2005-04-16T18:06:21","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T01:06:21","slug":"continuing-ethics-controversy-is-harming-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/continuing-ethics-controversy-is-harming-the-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"continuing ethics controversy is harming the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABC News: Conservative Lawmaker: DeLay Should Quit<\/a><\/p>\n

One of Congress’ most conservative members on Friday became the second House Republican to urge Majority Leader Tom DeLay to step aside because of the ethics scrutiny he’s facing. …<\/p>\n

[Rep. Tom Tancredo’s, R-Colo.,] comments come after Connecticut Rep. Chris Shays, a moderate Republican, urged DeLay to resign from his leadership position at the beginning of the week. Also, Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, said DeLay needs to answer questions about his ethics. …<\/p>\n

Tancredo is known in the House for his tough stand on immigration and has 100 percent rating from the American Conservative Union for votes and his position on issues.
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\nSee the interactive exposé at Tom Delay’s House of Scandal<\/a><\/p>\n

Heather Wilson<\/b>
\n1\tContributions from ARMPAC: $36,959
\n2\tVoting percentage with DeLay: 87%
\n3\tVote to weaken ethics rules:
\nH Res. 5, Roll Call #6, 1\/4\/05 –\tYES
\n4\tVote to table Democratic solution:
\nH. Res. 153, Roll Call #70, 3\/15\/05 – \tYES<\/p>\n

Steve Pearce<\/b>
\n1\tContributions from ARMPAC: $20,000
\n2\tVoting percentage with DeLay: 95%
\n3\tVote to weaken ethics rules:
\nH Res. 5, Roll Call #6, 1\/4\/05\t– YES
\n4\tVote to table Democratic solution:
\nH. Res. 153, Roll Call #70, 3\/15\/05 – \tYES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABC News: Conservative Lawmaker: DeLay Should Quit One of Congress’ most conservative members on Friday became the second House Republican to urge Majority Leader Tom DeLay to step aside because of the ethics scrutiny he’s facing. … [Rep. Tom Tancredo’s, R-Colo.,] comments come after Connecticut Rep. Chris Shays, a moderate Republican, urged DeLay to resign … Continue reading continuing ethics controversy is harming the GOP<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}