Is Bob Ney on a House committe involving Casinos?

[Eric J in MN]

I wrote about Bob Ney (R-OH) on my blog today at:
http://www.moveleft.com/moveleft_essay_2005_05_19_greed_gone_wild_bob_ney_accepted_a_bribe.asp

and I was wondering what House committees deal with casinos and is he on one of them?

[pk_du]

1. His committe memberships are listed here

but his position as Tom Delays "whipping boy" (Deputy Whip) is his tie to Abramoff and the Indian gaming scandals.

http://ney.house.gov/Biography.aspx

[johnsauter]

2. Ney is Chair of House Admin.

As Chair of House Administration Committee Ney oversees election and voting issues. Ney's involvement with the Tigua Indian tribe and super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff stems from Abramoff successfully lobbying Ney in 2003 to slip in a casino re-opening provision into a bill on election reform. The re-opening provision was inserted as a benefit to the Tigua Indian tribe, a client of Abramoff's. It should come as no suprise to all of us that the Tigua Indian tribe donated over $30,000 to Ney and Ney's PAC in 2004. It should also be noted that prior to the tribe's donation, Ney did not operate a PAC - he set up his PAC just in time to accept the tribe's large donation.

I'll plug our website since it is relevant in this case: check out www.ohiodems.org for more information on Ney. We're currently working on a letter-writing project to local newspapers with our county parties regarding Ney and his ethical lapses (including accepting two trips to Scotland to play golf on Abramoff's dime and a 2003 trip to London to gamble and meet with a Syrian-born businessman who sought Ney's help in selling aircraft in the Middle East).

[Eric J in MN]

3. Thanks. Is there an article I can link to which says

that the casino legislation was in an election-bill?