GOP's Nov. campaign gets another challenge
2006-10-17
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
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rss feedThree weeks from an election that will determine whether Republicans stay in power, this is not the montage of TV images party leaders wanted:
Rep. Bob Ney (R., Ohio) walking out of a courthouse after pleading guilty to corruption charges in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
Closed doors, behind which the House ethics committee is grilling witnesses about dirty electronic messages former Rep. Mark Foley (R., Fla.) sent to teenage male pages.
FBI agents hauling away boxes as they investigate allegations that Rep. Curt Weldon (R., Pa.) steered business to his daughter's consulting firm.
Strategists in both parties and independent analysts said the string of scandals had reawakened ethics as an issue in the midterm campaign, stoking an anti-Congress mood. Since most of those in the spotlight are Republicans and the party controls Congress, the GOP stands to be hurt more.
"Every month the job rating of Congress gets worse and worse," said Democratic political consultant Neil Oxman, whose Philadelphia firm is working for AFSCME, the public-employee union, in 15 competitive House races nationally.
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