But... How will he pay for his kids' college??

Boehner tells Ney to resign or face poor K Street prospects

Embattled Rep. Ney Won't Seek Reelection
Abramoff Ties Led GOP To Urge His Withdrawal

By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 8, 2006; A01

Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio), the subject of a federal corruption investigation involving convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, yielded to pressure from Republican leaders and announced yesterday that he will not seek election to a seventh House term this November.

House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) met with Ney last week to urge him to step aside, reminding him that with a son in college and a daughter nearing college age, he will need money, according to several congressional Republican aides. If he lost his House seat for the party, Boehner is said to have cautioned, Ney could not expect a lucrative career on K Street to pay those tuition bills, along with the hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees piling up.

"Ultimately this decision came down to my family. I must think of them first, and I can no longer put them through this ordeal," Ney said in a one-paragraph statement.

Ney, 52, became the third House Republican to fall before the wide-ranging federal investigations into influence-peddling and bribery in Congress.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080700078_pf.html

Suggestion From Poster:

Now that Dad might not be able (yeah... right!) to pay for you to attend those Ivy League schools, kids, WHY NOT CONSIDER A CAREER IN THE MILITARY?? Fight for our Freedom in Iraq! Then the G.I. Bill is supposed to pay for your college... if you survive.

I can't type any more... my tears for the Ney Children are flowing into my keyboard and I feel myself crumpling into a heap of misery, as I meditate the hard fate of Congressman Ney...

What a country.

they find the courage and will to go on. :eyes: Yes, we wouldn't want to jeopardize our lucrative K Street career, would we? Fucking thieves! :mad:

to pay for her college son's fraternity fees...