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To: jlallen who wrote (557597)	3/30/2010 12:16:37 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575502

When you all are not screwing up the country, re electing a president who shouldn't even have been governor, starting wars you don't know how to fight, obstructing progress, acting like pervs in a West Hollywood club, you've got your hands into the till, stealing everything including the kitchen sink. You all are an abomination! Ethics Report Faults Ex-Congressman By KATE PHILLIPS Remember the Georgia Congressman who announced his resignation from Congress, but then postponed it until he could vote against the health care bill in the House last week? Well, the Republican Congressman, Nathan Deal, did in fact call it quits in the hours after the final vote last weekend. But that move, done so that he could run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Georgia, didn’t silence an ethics inquiry that had been swirling around him. Colleague Eric Lipton reports that “on Monday, the Office of Congressional Ethics released its report anyway, concluding that the Georgia Republican appeared to have improperly used his office staff to pressure Georgia state officials to continue a state vehicle inspection program that generated hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for his family’s auto salvage business.” Read the full article. Also posted is the 138-page ethics report. thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com