Is Aaron Schock ethically challenged? He doesn't know, he's 'not an attorney'

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Is Aaron Schock ethically challenged? He doesn't know, he's 'not an attorney'

It's hard being Rep. Aaron Schock, a one-time rising star now exposed to be just another grifter. A grifter with good taste, but a grifter. Salon catches us up on the deluge of very bad news stories for the young lawmaker. http://www.salon.com/2015/03/10/aaron_schock_may_be_toast_news_keeps_getting_worse_for_embattled_congressman/

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With Schock, it is becoming embarrassingly clear, there's always another shoe to drop. And so one did on Monday evening. The latest revelation concerns Schock's travel to the aforementioned Bears game. Schock had already billed taxpayers $10,000 for his private flight to the November 16 Bears-Viking match, but it turns out that he also used another $3,000 in taxpayer funds to pay for the flight. However, Schock reported that $3,000 as a software purchase on federal campaign finance records. An innocent mix-up? Not quite: Keith Siilats, the chief technology officer of the firm from which Schock claimed to have purchased software, told Politico, "I never sold him software."

So Politico decided to ask him directly if he broke the law, and his answer is priceless: "Well, I certainly hope not. […] I'm not an attorney."

Hey, it works for climate change deniers. "I'm not a scientist, but…." Or anti-choice legislators. "I'm not a doctor, but…." This one, though, this one is a little harder to swallow. Because it's, you know, the ethical guidelines and the federal campaign finance laws that govern his actual job. It's like being pulled over for speeding, and telling the cop "I'm sorry officer, I'm not a professional driver. How would I know how to drive your legal speed limit?"

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