Two House Republicans who lead the National Republican Campaign Committee were pretty short in response to questions about whether they knew of secret twitter accounts being used to pass internal polling information between committees and super PACs. They said they had no idea.
The denials come after CNN’s report on Monday which said that at least two twitter accounts were being used to pass the internal polls. Direct coordination between committees and super PACs is illegal.
There was National Republican Campaign Committee chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) who told CNN on Tuesday “I don’t know anything about it.”
Walden said he would look into the matter but didn’t sound like it was a priority at the top of his list.
And then there was Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), the vice chairman of the NRCC in charge of digital operations.
“I don’t know anything about it,” Chaffetz said.
The Twitter accounts were publicly available for anyone to see
but the information was presented in a way where someone would have to
know what they were looking for and how to interpret the numbers to make
any sense of it.
The Sargent Schultz defense.
This would be an excellent matter for incoming Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep Jason Chaffetz, to take up.
And when FEC or DOJ tries to subpoena anything, they’ll scream bloody murder and Issa will open a counter-investigation into Obama’s abuse of FEC and DOJ powers to “harass political opponents and punish dissenters.” He’ll tack it right on to the IRS investigation and maybe merge the hearings.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…FUNNY YOU SHOULD MENTION THAT!!! GUESS WHAT?
Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz is the NRCC vice-chair in charge of digital operations and is now also on record as saying “It’s the first I’ve ever heard of it.”
He’d be investigating and convicting himself of ethics and rules violations if it came to it. That ain’t happening.
2 + 2 = The fix is in.
EDIT: oh wait…crap…I was jumping to it too fast and confusing it with the Ethics Committee…damn this tinfoil hat…Oversight = oversight of executive branch, Ethics = oversight of House…or meh, am I just making it even more confused?
Walden represents southern Oregon, at least in theory. He is an aggressive liar who has gotten very wealthy working for the republicans. His district is the poorest in Oregon. The guy is a total opportunist.