Bribe-Taking Democrat Gets Elected By Peers To Homeland Security Committee
Wonderful…
WASHINGTON (CNN)—The House Democratic Caucus voted on Tuesday night to give Rep. William Jefferson, D-Louisiana, a seat on the House Homeland Security Committee. This comes after the caucus stripped Jefferson of his seat on the powerful Ways and Means committee last June.
Jefferson is entangled in a federal bribery investigation related to his dealings with a telecommunications company. Federal investigators found $90,000 in cash in his freezer in 2005 after Jefferson allegedly accepted a $100,000 bribe from an FBI informant.
Just to sum up the Democrat thinking on this issue, Jefferson’s legal woes are enough to give him the boot from the Ways and Means committee, but not bad enough from giving him a seat on a committee that overseas Homeland Security?
I guess that tells us just how seriously the Dems take national security in the first place.
Update: According to House Republican Whip Roy Blunt the GOP is going to make a big deal out of this.
As well they should.
