... in todays Columbus Dispatch for those of you following the Abamoff/Delay/Ney scandal:
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2005/12/04/20051204-A1-02.html&chck=tWASHINGTON — The bill represented the two sides of Rep. Bob Ney: It was a tribute to his legislative acumen and it illustrated the ethical episodes that have made him a key player in a federal investigation.
In the Old Executive Office Building on that day in 2002, President Bush hailed Ney for skillfully guiding to his desk legislation to overhaul the nation’s election laws.
What Bush didn’t know is that Ney surreptitiously had tried to use the bill to advance the casino interests of Jack Abramoff, a Washington lobbyist who gave Ney-doesn’t-pay orders to employees at his Capitol Hill restaurant.
If allegations of ethical misconduct are true, Ney is Washington’s version of Jekyll and Hyde: an affable and pragmatic lawmaker who gets things done by working both sides of the congressional aisle and a denizen of the D.C. subculture that revolves around money and favors and, ultimately, trouble.
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