This Week in Democratic Party Ethical Challenges

Ethics -- as in lack thereof.

NY Gov. David Patterson ... being pressured to resign due to various troubles ...
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/paterson_ChtWm5k3KQUwUXN6EwdK6N


NY Congressman Charles Rangel ..... steps down from Ways & Means chairmanship "temporarily" due to numerous bad acts ...
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/just_don_o4LUuhrmDip5pcpADAecPK


and now, Congressman Eric Massa (sexual harrassment of staffer)
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/dem_rep_quits_amid_sex_claim_SXSdel6W398BUB1GOTVCII

Massa-gate? [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
This could be very bad news for the Dems — Hoyer knew and it seems made some unleader-like presumptions:

First-term Rep. Eric Massa announced Wednesday that he will not seek reelection, saying his doctors have told him that he can’t continue to “run at 100 miles an hour.” But several House aides told POLITICO that the House ethics committee has been informed of allegations that the New York Democrat, who is married with two children, made unwanted advances toward a junior male staffer. A more senior staffer — Ronald Hikel, Massa’s former deputy chief of staff and legislative director — took the complaints to the ethics committee and was interviewed about them twice. Hikel declined to comment about the situation, but House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) confirmed that the Democratic leadership had been informed of the allegations before the news broke. “I’ve heard of that allegation before,” he said. “I had some indication, yes, but I don’t want to go beyond that. And my presumption [is] it’s being pursued in the course of business.”


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