New Ethics Complaint Shows Schiff's Problems Don't End With TikTok Video, Committee Assignments Rebecca Downs

Rebecca Downs   January 30, 2023

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) just can't stop putting himself out there in the news. As Julio highlighted last week, the embattled congressman took to TikTok to vent about how Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) kept his promise when it came to keeping Schiff from serving on the House Intel Committee. During the video he called on viewers for support. That Schiff would post a video over what could very well be a Chinese spyware app proves why he doesn't belong on the committee, as Julio argued. Evidently not power hungry enough, Schiff not long after announced he was running for U.S. Senate. Just a day after he announced he was running, though, Schiff was hit with an ethics complaint........To Read More....

 

Biden Administration Requests Ethics Rules Be Ignored for Union Bosses Appointed to Top Administration Positions

Jacob Bliss 7 May 2021

The Biden administration has been requesting that union bosses, after being appointed to top administration positions, be excluded from ethics rules that bar them from being lobbied by their former union.

Biden has relied heavily on labor union personnel to fill vacancies within his administration, which in turn helps drive policy in their favor, according to the report. Biden gave the unions a huge voice within the federal bureaucracy “at the cost of strictly adhering to his own stringent ethics standards,” the report showed................More ethics rules were waived in March in the Office of Personnel Management for Alethea Predeoux, the director of intergovernmental affairs. Predeoux reportedly was the top lobbyist for the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). This is the union that represents hundreds-of-thousands of federal government workers. The report said, “absent a waiver, Biden’s ethics pledge would bar her from working on issues on which she lobbied.”...........To Read More....

Indiana Senate Race Tied as Bayh Slips Even Further

New revelations about Bayh’s time in office cast more doubt on a Democratic campaign dogged by scandal

 

by Alexandra DeSanctis 

 

When Democrat Evan Bayh jumped into the Indiana Senate race last July, it was widely believed that the race would be a slam-dunk for his party. Bayh had served three terms as a U.S. senator in Indiana before stepping down in 2011, and, prior to that, was the state’s governor for eight years. He had a cash advantage of $9 million dollars over his Republican opponent, Todd Young, and a last name that made him Indiana political royalty. Internal Democratic polls had him up by over 20 points.........

That’s no accident: Bayh has been damaged by a slew of revelations about his post-Senate career in Washington, which have allowed the Young campaign to paint him as a political insider in this year of outsider candidates. Just last night, the Huffington Post reported that Bayh’s private schedules from his time in office indicate possible congressional-ethics violations related to his hunting for a Wall Street job while still serving in the Senate.........Bayh’s potential misuse of his office isn’t the only scandal to have dogged his campaign.......Read more