GOP Silence is Deafening
2012-06-05 - by
Suddenly the Republican chorus howling for justice has gone silent.
The chorus was in full cry for John Edwards, Mike Easley and Bev Perdue.
Now comes Charles Thomas. Like Edwards, Thomas held a position of public trust and power. Like Edwards, Thomas cheated on his wife. Like Edwards, Thomas’s wife had cancer.
Edwards was investigated and indicted for allegedly breaking campaign-finance laws to hide his affair.
Thomas resigned because he had an affair with a lobbyist. Did he do anything improper to help her in the legislature?
The House Ethics Committee, interestingly, decided not to investigate.
One delegate at the state Republican convention Saturday denounced Thomas, before being abruptly cut off by the chair.
Edwards wasn’t convicted, but he was shamed. Everybody agrees he should disappear. Thomas, on the other hand, became a lobbyist.
Democrats wonder: Will there be an investigation?
And will the media push as hard now as it did then?
GOP Silence is Deafening
2012-06-05/
Suddenly the Republican chorus howling for justice has gone silent.
The chorus was in full cry for John Edwards, Mike Easley and Bev Perdue.
Now comes Charles Thomas. Like Edwards, Thomas held a position of public trust and power. Like Edwards, Thomas cheated on his wife. Like Edwards, Thomas’s wife had cancer.
Edwards was investigated and indicted for allegedly breaking campaign-finance laws to hide his affair.
Thomas resigned because he had an affair with a lobbyist. Did he do anything improper to help her in the legislature?
The House Ethics Committee, interestingly, decided not to investigate.
One delegate at the state Republican convention Saturday denounced Thomas, before being abruptly cut off by the chair.
Edwards wasn’t convicted, but he was shamed. Everybody agrees he should disappear. Thomas, on the other hand, became a lobbyist.
Democrats wonder: Will there be an investigation?
And will the media push as hard now as it did then?