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High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/polit..._offer_to_get_out_of_Senate_race.html?showall
From Politico article:
Rep. Joe Sestak, winner of the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, is refusing to provide more information on what job he was offered by a White House official to drop of that race, although he confirmed again that the incident occurred.
The White House was backing incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) in the primary. Sestak acknowledged in an interview in February that he was offered a position by an unnamed White House official - a potential violation of federal law - but has not offered any specifics on conversation. Republicans are trying to use the issue against Sestak in the November Senate race.
"It's interesting. I was asked a question about something that happened months earlier, and I felt that I should answer it honestly, and that's all I had to say about it." Sestak said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Anybody else has to decide on what they will say upon their role. That's their responsibility."
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index...man-joe-sestak-accuses-white-house-of-bribery
From New American article:
Allegations that President Barack Obama offered Congressman Joe Sestak a “high-ranking” cabinet position in order for Sestak to drop out of the Senate race against Democratic incumbent Arlen Specter may prove to be detrimental to the Obama administration.
In February 2010, Congressman Joe Sestak admitted to local talk show host Larry Kane that the Obama administration “dangled a high-ranking job in front of him” as a means of convincing Sestak to reconsider running against Specter.
http://www.redstate.com/jrichardson...uly-4-ethics-probe-over-sestak-bribery-claim/
From RedState article:
In the wake of Tuesday’s Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, a top House GOP legislator is renewing his call for an ethics probe into allegations the White House offered Rep. Joe Sestak an administration post in exchange for foregoing his primary bid against Beltway-endorsed Sen. Arlen Specter.
California Rep. Darrell Issa, the ranking Republican member of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, said Sestak, who on Tuesday bested Specter by nearly 8 points, must identify the job he was allegedly offered and who in the administration proposed it. Issa has been a one-man firing squad on the point since February, when then-dark horse Sestak claimed in a radio interview an Obama aide had offered him a “high-ranking” federal gig at the onset of his Senate bid.
“Was Joe Sestak embellishing what really happened, or does he have first-hand knowledge of the White House breaking the law,” asked a statement from Issa’s office. “If what he said is the truth, Joe Sestak has a moral imperative to come forward and expose who within the Obama administration tried to bribe him.”
If Sestak and the White House remain mum–and all markers indicate they will–or If the matter is not brought before the Office of Congressional Ethics, the clearinghouse for Capitol Hill ethics probes, Issa warned that he or a fellow member would file an official complaint on July 4.
“I’ve reviewed the capability and appropriateness” of lodging a complaint with the committee, Issa said. “I’m one of many members of Congress considering that it has to be done if he doesn’t come clean.”
If the bribery claim bears any semblance to reality, Issa warned that the White House official who contacted the Sestak may have violated federal law barring election interference and promising employment for political activity.
What do you think?
As for me, I never knew offering an alternative job not to run for office was illegal. I thought that's what those guys did all the time, as I said here before. But it now appears that there is a federal law that forbid that type of thing, and if done by an elected official or on behalf of an elected official, it constitutes conduct constituting high crimes and misdemeanors, as that term is used in the Constitution of the United States:
Article I, Sections 2 and 3:
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/polit..._offer_to_get_out_of_Senate_race.html?showall
From Politico article:
Rep. Joe Sestak, winner of the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, is refusing to provide more information on what job he was offered by a White House official to drop of that race, although he confirmed again that the incident occurred.
The White House was backing incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) in the primary. Sestak acknowledged in an interview in February that he was offered a position by an unnamed White House official - a potential violation of federal law - but has not offered any specifics on conversation. Republicans are trying to use the issue against Sestak in the November Senate race.
"It's interesting. I was asked a question about something that happened months earlier, and I felt that I should answer it honestly, and that's all I had to say about it." Sestak said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Anybody else has to decide on what they will say upon their role. That's their responsibility."
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index...man-joe-sestak-accuses-white-house-of-bribery
From New American article:
Allegations that President Barack Obama offered Congressman Joe Sestak a “high-ranking” cabinet position in order for Sestak to drop out of the Senate race against Democratic incumbent Arlen Specter may prove to be detrimental to the Obama administration.
In February 2010, Congressman Joe Sestak admitted to local talk show host Larry Kane that the Obama administration “dangled a high-ranking job in front of him” as a means of convincing Sestak to reconsider running against Specter.
http://www.redstate.com/jrichardson...uly-4-ethics-probe-over-sestak-bribery-claim/
From RedState article:
In the wake of Tuesday’s Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, a top House GOP legislator is renewing his call for an ethics probe into allegations the White House offered Rep. Joe Sestak an administration post in exchange for foregoing his primary bid against Beltway-endorsed Sen. Arlen Specter.
California Rep. Darrell Issa, the ranking Republican member of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, said Sestak, who on Tuesday bested Specter by nearly 8 points, must identify the job he was allegedly offered and who in the administration proposed it. Issa has been a one-man firing squad on the point since February, when then-dark horse Sestak claimed in a radio interview an Obama aide had offered him a “high-ranking” federal gig at the onset of his Senate bid.
“Was Joe Sestak embellishing what really happened, or does he have first-hand knowledge of the White House breaking the law,” asked a statement from Issa’s office. “If what he said is the truth, Joe Sestak has a moral imperative to come forward and expose who within the Obama administration tried to bribe him.”
If Sestak and the White House remain mum–and all markers indicate they will–or If the matter is not brought before the Office of Congressional Ethics, the clearinghouse for Capitol Hill ethics probes, Issa warned that he or a fellow member would file an official complaint on July 4.
“I’ve reviewed the capability and appropriateness” of lodging a complaint with the committee, Issa said. “I’m one of many members of Congress considering that it has to be done if he doesn’t come clean.”
If the bribery claim bears any semblance to reality, Issa warned that the White House official who contacted the Sestak may have violated federal law barring election interference and promising employment for political activity.
What do you think?
As for me, I never knew offering an alternative job not to run for office was illegal. I thought that's what those guys did all the time, as I said here before. But it now appears that there is a federal law that forbid that type of thing, and if done by an elected official or on behalf of an elected official, it constitutes conduct constituting high crimes and misdemeanors, as that term is used in the Constitution of the United States:
Article I, Sections 2 and 3:
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
