CREW Files Ethics Complaint Against Senator Landrieu

by Matt Margolis :: January 9, 2008 7:24 PM

It's very rare for liberals to recognize or even admit the existence of corruption in their own party.. So, when a liberal watchdog group decides to go after you, it is safe to say they're doing so only because the evidence is so ironclad that to ignore it would severely damage their claim of being non-partisan.

So, when a liberal ethics watchdog group files an ethics complaint against a Democrat, the evidence obviously speaks for itself:

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today sent a complaint to the Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District for Louisiana and the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, asking for an investigation into whether Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) violated federal bribery law by including a $2 million earmark for Voyager Expanded Learning in a bill a mere four days after receiving $30,000 in campaign contributions from company executives and their relatives. CREW also asked the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate the matter.

Landrieu, unable to ignore the complaint, issued a response, even providing documents (available on her website in PDF form.) Yet, even CREW saw that the documents only support their claim.

“Sen. Landrieu’s response to CREW’s Department of Justice and Ethics Committee complaints fails to address the key allegation: that she inserted an earmark in return for campaign contributions. According to a document just provided by Sen. Landrieu, the District of Columbia apparently asked the senator on April 25, 2001 to include an earmark for Voyager in the D.C. appropriations bill. Nevertheless, by September 24, 2001, when a House committee included a $1 million earmark for Voyager, the company still had not attracted a Senate sponsor. Sen. Landrieu has not explained why she didn’t follow through on the District’s request until November 6, 2001, four days after Mr. Best and his associates contributed $30,000 to the senator’s campaign.”

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