Earlier this week news officially broke that Mr. Tiahrt is now under investigation by the House Committee on Standards for his involvement in the widely publicized PMA scandal that has been reported by many news outlets and discussed previously on this blog. Not only is Mr. Tiahrt under further investigation, but he is the only Republican of the PMA Seven to be further investigated by the House Committee on Standards. The basics of the case are that Mr. Tiahrt allegedly put earmarks into bills that gave contracts to clients of now-defunct lobbying firm PMA in exchange for political endorsements.
While Mr. Tiahrt claims that he is happy these investigations are going public, and hopeful that he will be soon exonerated of the charges; I believe that Mr. Tiahrt and his staff are probably shaking in their pants.
Time and again Kansas voters have been told by Mr. Tiahrt that he is the conservative choice for the Senate and that he will fight wasteful spending in Washington, but everybody knows that the most wasteful form of spending in Washington is the earmark process that only help a small group of the elite and powerful. If Mr. Tiahrt has been involved with creating these earmarks—that alone would be cause for Kansans to vote against him in this summer’s election, but if he was helping to write these earmarks in exchange for campaign contributions, I believe that would necessitate his resignation from Congress as well as removing himself from the current Senate campaign.
Luckily, there is now a time frame.
Kansas voters will not be forced to make a decision simply based on the rhetoric that politicians have been throwing around, but they will have definitive knowledge of Mr. Tiahrt’s involvement in the situation when they make their decision this summer. Either Mr. Tiahrt’s claims of innocence will be backed up, or he will be revealed as a lying Washington insider that should have no place representing the people of Kansas.
I can’t wait to see the results.
Patiently yours,
Publius
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So if it is determined that Mr. Tiahrt is in fact innocent of any and all wrongdoing, will you write a nice post about him? I dare ya!
ReplyDeleteWhy is Tiahrt even in this position in the first place? Even if he's cleared - the damage is done to Tiahrt... he's now viewed as a Washington DC scumbag with shady ethical grounding.
ReplyDeleteThanks for writing on this Publius
If you write a nice piece about Tiahrt, I will too.*
ReplyDelete*absolutely not
He has been targeted by Pelosi's pet committee. Why can't conservatives see through this?
ReplyDeleteThe committe is bi-partisian. This is not a pelosi committee. Even John "Airport to Nowhere" Murtha got cleared. Tanker Todd must have really done something bad.
ReplyDeleteEthics panel reviewing him or his staff or both?
ReplyDeleteTodd is 100% innocent! Only CONSERVATIVES are yet to be cleared, It's not fair to your readers to leave out facts. It's annoying that you are obviosly with the Moran Campaign, and you droped to the level that you have.
ReplyDeleteA Democrat hasn't been cleared either...... this is not some rag of a committee
ReplyDeleteHA Todd is 100% innocent? HA HA HA
ReplyDeleteTalk to some former staff and they beg to differ. It will all come out.