December 23, 2005

Scandals Beget Scrutiny

A Hotline writer vacationing in beautiful San Diego passes along a package of articles from the Union Tribune.

GOP Rep. Jerry Lewis's ties to a former staffer-cum-lobbyist are probed. Nothing especially hinky... but close sifting of a cozy, quite common relationship. And a weird picture of Lewis and his dog.

The writer, Copley's Jerry Krammer, makes the point that coverage of one scandal often pushes the press take a closer look at everything in their orbit. Lewis's perch on the approps committee makes him an easy target for scrutiny.

BTW: Regional AP political writers used to scrub the financial disclosure forms of all 535 members of Congress at least once every two years -- their assets, liaibilities, loans, equity holdings, properties, charities, chief contributors, campaign accounts, etc.
Do they still do this? Let us know.

Posted at 12:29 PM

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