The fact that there are people who don't want to release it means it's pretty damning. You don't try to bury reports that imply your party member is innocent.
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Is it irony that they're debating releasing an ethics report about a scumbag?
It shouldn't matter it is a scumbag or not. Either the report exonerates him, or he wasn't acting ethically which we should know about. Either way there should be no discussion whether or should be released or not.
The fact that this is debated, says that there major ethical issues among people deciding about it.
I look at it this way: this was work done by a governing body, who were elected to perform the work. This wasn't an FBI criminal investigation. It was a legislative ethics investigation on another legislator.
There is no earthly reason this should not be available to the public, no matter how innocent the report is.
No. It would be irony for an ethics committee to be the subject of an ethics investigation. For a scumbag, it's just expected.
Just like rain on your wedding day.
Or a free ride when you've already paid
And all of tax funded.
Leak it you cowards.
What's the point of wasting tax payer dollars on an ethics report you're going to bury??
The tax payer dollars spent on compiling the report weren't wasted.
The cost in both salaries and hours of a Congress that's probably about to adjourn for the year debating the release that should have happened the moment it was completed, on the other hand..
I mean they got Gaetz to resign so they weren't wasted.
Didn't he won the re election? He's going to be there again on the next congress. He basically just took a vacation.
Oh. Then you got me there that was a waste of tax money.
You wanna be the party of law and order. Then this is just part of the order. The law part can only come after.
We all better get tax credits when they don’t release it