Pennsylvania Dem Refuses to Relinquish Dirty Cash As House Ethics Battle Pervades Congress

Washington- With two senior Democrats facing serious charges from a House Ethics panel, it’s apparent that the out-of-touch majority is mired in the swamp they once promised to drain. As Maxine Waters and Charlie Rangel’s wrongdoings are exposed, Kathy Dahlkemper will voluntarily go down with them if she hangs on to Waters’ campaign cash. Despite Waters’ ethical baggage, Dahlkemper’s campaign coffers are still dirty with $2,000 from the troubled Democrat. 
 
“By refusing to return the dirty campaign dollars she has taken, Kathy Dahlkemper has voluntarily become part of the out-of-touch majority’s swamp of corruption,” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain. “In an already turbulent political environment for House Democrats, these new charges threaten to derail their majority. And as the pressure to return the tainted cash continues to mount while a possible trial is looming, will Dahlkemper choose to abandon the sinking ship or will she continue to hang on to the tainted cash?”
 
“Two possible ethics trials of senior Democratic members of Congress are compounding the governing party’s political woes and raising hopes among Republican leaders that they can make  large gains in November’s mid-term elections…The comments came after Ms. Waters failed Friday to reach a plea agreement with ethics investigators and will face a public trial for allegedly using her influence to steer federal bailouts funds to a Boston-based bank in which her husband owned stock.
 
“Her predicament came a day after Mr. Rangel was formally charged Thursday with 13 counts of violating House ethics rules, mostly related to his attempts to raise money from companies for an educational institution that bears his name.” (Neftali Bendavid and Brody Mullins, “Ethical Woes Fog Democrat Hopes for November,” Wall Street Journal, 8/02/2010)
 
With November’s midterm election just three months away, will Dahlkemper be a casualty of the Democrats’ growing corruption problem?

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