Weldon quickly chops up his campaign website to cover ethics violation.
After reading the July 19, 2006 article in The Hill, a little investigation on the Wayback Machine at www.archive.org (a pretty cool site that archives old versions of websites) shows that Weldon's web developers had to scramble to hastilty get rid of the photos and bio info taken from his Congressional website, in violation House ethics committee rules. Check out these before and after screen shots from Weldon's congressional site, his old website, and his new chopped up site. You can click each photo to go that web page.
And the bio pages:
So in the grand scheme of things, this is a relatively minor ethics violation from Weldon. It really just shows his contempt for the rules in general. We'll get to the bigger ethics violations soon enough!
And the bio pages:
So in the grand scheme of things, this is a relatively minor ethics violation from Weldon. It really just shows his contempt for the rules in general. We'll get to the bigger ethics violations soon enough!
posted by Seventh Watch at 10:42 PM
3 Comments:
Can you please talk about things here of substance that actually have to do with the issues at hand in our district? You should be detailing reasons why Sestak believes the Seventh should dump their high-ranking senior Rep. for him, who would be a minority party back-bencher. Who has the better website or who's banner came from where is frankly beyond trivial when it comes to something as serious as deciding if a change is needed in our representation and whether or not such a change would be a blow to the desprately needed funding we have been getting here in the Seventh. The fact that this blog, which is unabashedly pro-Sestak (calling Weldon's people monkeys? Let's act a little more professional..) even admits that this is a "relatively minor ethics violation" is a sign that you should really be concerned more with the big picture and serious issues. This kind of nit-picking isn't going to get us anywhere when faced with such an important decision.
who has the best website IS trivial. Using taxpayer dollars for a political campaign IS NOT trivial, and that's exactly what Weldon is doing.
This "minor ethics violation" is a big issue - it goes straight to the heart of what kind of Congressman one is. I'll take a backbencher with a strong sense of purpose and dedication to public, not personal, service over this out-of-touch, flip-flopping, taxpayer-dollars-wasting incumbent any day.
Weldon Campaign Worker (aka Anonymous #1)-
The choice was between "monkeys" accidentally typing the same content as House site onto political campaign or human beings willfully violating campaign finance and ethics rules.
So, are you saying that it wasn't monkeys?
Lighten up. You've got weak candidate that has coasted along for years due to the Delco Republican political machine. He backed Bush all these years and now that the American people has realized how bad the policies have been, they are sweeping out people like Weldon that have worked for the interests of Big Oil, Haliburton, Tom Delay, tax-cuts for the rich, poor fiscal policy, sweetheart deals for pharmaceuticals, etc. instead of the voters.
There are serious problems in this country and the voters want serious representatives to solve them. Weldon does not qualify on that score and when placed next to a serious candidate, his short-comings become even more pronounced.
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