Ethics committee: La. Sen. David Vitter violated public trust in blocking Salazar salary
Source: Associated Press
By Associated Press,
WASHINGTON The Senate ethics committee says Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana undermined public trust last year by blocking a salary increase for the interior secretary.
However, the committee said Vitters unprecedented action raised a new issue, making it impossible to charge the Louisiana Republican with rules violations.
Vitter blocked the increase for Ken Salazar when Salazar failed to issue six permits a month for new deepwater exploratory wells.
The committee, in a letter to Vitter on Friday, said that if Salazar had agreed to the demand, it would have appeared that he was complying in order to obtain a raise.
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Related: After ethics ruling, Vitter vows to keep blocking Salazar's pay raise (Politico)
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)However, the committee said Vitters unprecedented action raised a new issue, making it impossible to charge the Louisiana Republican with rules violations
Are they really saying that or am I misunderstanding their action?
fightthegoodfightnow
(7,042 posts)....between his prostitutes and his blackmailing, he is a mess.
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)jerseyjack
(1,361 posts)fujiyama
(15,185 posts)and the state is a cesspool of corruption. That Vitter is a real class act.
I hope I don't need a sarcasm icon...
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)or rich and greedy enough to elect perverts like this deserve what they get in the end (pun intended), but the rest of us don't, and there's the whole thrust of it (Oops!)
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Person A does something Person B doesn't like, so Person B does something adverse to Person A. Kind of a negative quid pro quo.
If I was Ken Salazar, I'd respond by using eminent domain to take Vitter's house and turn the land over to an oil company. Republicans like eminent domain, right?