Ethics investigation is tough assignment for party loyalist

[RT_Fanatic]

Ethics investigation is tough assignment for party loyalist
Thursday, April 28, 2005

By Lillian Thomas and Tom Barnes, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


Being tapped to lead the ethics investigation of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay would present Rep. Melissa Hart with the toughest political challenge of her career.

If she pushes too hard, she could earn the enmity of many in her party. If she pushes too little, she could be seen as buckling under party pressure.

But even though Hart's been known as a reliable Republican loyalist since being elected to Congress in 2000, the hard-charging, conservative lawyer from Bradford Woods has taken on powerful gray-hairs in her own party before.

After she beat an incumbent in 1990 to become the first Republican woman to win a full term to the state Senate, she surprised colleagues by immediately challenging the reconfirmation of tate Secretary of Education Donald Carroll, whom she criticized for representing the "status quo." Carroll's reconfirmation was a done deal, but Hart's refusal to go along and her ability to get 18 votes against him unnerved the Republican leadership.
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more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05118/495622.stm

[wallwriter]

1. Aside from the fact that

She looks like Bill Cowher in drag, she is a knucklehead apparatchik with nothing to offer anyone except shallow party loyalty. She should resign this assignment immediately because of conflicts of interest. She got money from DeLay!

[RT_Fanatic]

2. She got money from DeLay?

are there any links to material on that?

[wallwriter]

3. It was in USA Today. I saw it quoted in Salon

Here's the original link.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/
2005-04-26-delay-donations-ethics_x.htm

It would be hilarious if it weren't so scary.