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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Fake Websites Draw Ethics Complaint For House Republican Campaign Head Greg Walden"
Fake Websites Draw Ethics Complaint For House Republican Campaign Head Greg WaldenThe Huffington Post | by Michael McAuliff
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/12/ethics-complaint-nrcc_n_4950173.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
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WASHINGTON -- An ethics watchdog filed a formal request Wednesday for an investigation of National Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden (Ore.), citing his team's use of phony websites.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington -- citing numerous reports of 18 GOP webpages that masqueraded as sites belonging to Democrats -- is asking the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate whether or not Walden broke federal law or House rules by tricking Democratic supporters into donating to the GOP.
CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan thinks he did.
"Rep. Walden and the NRCC have become online scam artists, tricking people out of their campaign donations," Sloan said in a statement. "Rep. Walden's support for such activity violates House ethics rules, and OCE needs to act quickly to protect the House's credibility.
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"Fake Websites Draw Ethics Complaint For House Republican Campaign Head Greg Walden" (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2014
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I'm glad this is coming from CREW because they are one of the few true non-partisan orgs out
okaawhatever
Mar 2014
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Gothmog
(145,487 posts)1. This is great news
These fake websites are very deceptive and unethical
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)2. I'm glad this is coming from CREW because they are one of the few true non-partisan orgs out
there. The repubs won't be able to cry conservative persecution on this one.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)3. They'll cry conservative persecution anyway. It's what they do.
Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)4. good- this news needs to be spread far and wide
classof56
(5,376 posts)5. I'm in Greg's district, sad to say.
Man, I hope this goes somewhere and he's history. Would make my day!