Your friendly muckraking update on Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA).
We’ve been trying to get the House ethics committee on the phone for a week to ask about Rep. John Doolittle’s (R-CA) fundraising arrangement with his wife, who gets a 15 percent cut of contributions. Doolittle has claimed that the House ethics committee OK’d the arrangement, but inexplicably won’t produce a copy of the opinion.
Well, we finally talked to someone today. They have a policy of not discussing specific cases, but one thing is clear: if Doolittle asked for the committee’s opinion, he would have received it in written form. Unfortunately, the committee keeps such opinions confidential. So it’s not coming out unless Doolittle publishes it.
And for some bizarre reason he’s clinging to that exculpatory piece of evidence. It makes you wonder.
