C-Span usually makes good on their attempt to keep the playing field level. But, today, they tilted right. In fact, I think they might have tore up the turf when they spoke with the Chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, Kenneth Boehm.
Chairman Boehm alleges in a complaint filed with the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia that Congressman Alan Mollohan D-WVA-1st hid assets and improperly funded business partners. NLPC Press Release the NLPC has refused to make public the details of the complaint BTW.
The NLPC claims to be 'strictly non partisan' that they have filed complaints against Democrats and Republicans. In my opinion, the only reason they can say that without it being an outright lie is because the NLPC is a conservative organization. If you look at the list of their recent projects you won't find any complaint against Duke Cunningham or Jack Abramoff though. Doesn't say much for their investigative techniques that they missed those two.
C-Span has posted a letter written by Congressman Mollohan to Tom Reynolds, Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. In his letter Congressman Mollohan states:
The reason is, quite clearly, that I strongly opposed efforts by the Republican leadership that would have seriously undermined the ability of the Ethics Committee to perform its basic function of enforcing House rules and standards. What your statement cavalierly refers to as my "stall[ing] for so long in getting the Ethics Committee up and running" was, in fact, my opposition to those efforts to make unilateral, highly destructive changes both in the House rules governing the Committee and in the Committee staff.
You can read the letter at C-Span I copied and saved the letter, if you can't find it at C-Span I'll e mail it to you.
The Intelligencer Wheeling News Register Mollohan Stands Behind His Financial Disclosures
The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza has background WVA: 12 Term Democrat at Center of Ethics Storm
