GOP Ethics
2013-05-23 - by
Attention must be paid when the Republican legislator who wants to roll back ethics laws questions Speaker Tillis’ ethics.
It could just be sour grapes. But someone needs to pursue Rep. Robert Brawley’s written statement about Tillis “slamming my office door shut, standing in front of me and stating that you have a business relationship with Time Warner and wanting to know what the bill is about.”
Brawley had filed a bill that Tillis and Time Warner apparently didn’t like. The Charlotte Observer-N&O story noted drily: “It’s unclear what relationship Tillis might have to Time Warner.”
If these two guys were Democrats, Republicans would be demanding an investigation of that “relationship.” Democrats should now.
Republican ethics are coming quickly into focus. Their desire to roll back every Democratic idea of the last 100 years apparently is matched only by their desire to cash in on their new power and access.
Democrats will tell you: Ethics shortcuts are a quick road to ruin.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Republicans
GOP Ethics
2013-05-23/
Attention must be paid when the Republican legislator who wants to roll back ethics laws questions Speaker Tillis’ ethics.
It could just be sour grapes. But someone needs to pursue Rep. Robert Brawley’s written statement about Tillis “slamming my office door shut, standing in front of me and stating that you have a business relationship with Time Warner and wanting to know what the bill is about.”
Brawley had filed a bill that Tillis and Time Warner apparently didn’t like. The Charlotte Observer-N&O story noted drily: “It’s unclear what relationship Tillis might have to Time Warner.”
If these two guys were Democrats, Republicans would be demanding an investigation of that “relationship.” Democrats should now.
Republican ethics are coming quickly into focus. Their desire to roll back every Democratic idea of the last 100 years apparently is matched only by their desire to cash in on their new power and access.
Democrats will tell you: Ethics shortcuts are a quick road to ruin.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Republicans