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DEL.ICIO.USBlogwatch: ‘An ethics panel can be abused. I know. I’ve done it.’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This is what happens when blogging and politics mix.
Erick Erickson, founder of PeachPundit and a newly elected city councilman, is taking after Mayor Robert Reichert plan to make Macon a “city of ethics.”
Specifically, Erickson, a Republican, doesn’t like the proposal for a panel that would review accusations of impropriety.
Such an ethics board would be abused, Erikson said. He knows, because he’s done it.
Erickson wrote this in his local, lesser-known Blog Macon:
“Look, I’m a political consultant by trade. When I run political campaigns, I routinely encourage, at the mere hint of any impropriety, a third party friendly to my candidate’s campaign to file a complaint with the State Ethics Commission….
“Every campaign would be hurling ethics complaints at every other campaign through surrogates not viewed as connected with any campaign. And the media would sit back and cover every single one of the complaints as if it was genuine and true.”
But if an ethics panel must be formed, Erickson said he’d insist that it be peopled only with “college educated men and women who have full time jobs outside the home.”
“In my experience, politically active housewives and househusbands and blue-haired retirees are the most troublesome, meddlesome politically active people who will view every complaint filed as probable cause for an investigation,” Erickson wrote. “Professionals with full-time jobs don’t have time for that nonsense. They’d be more likely to weed out the frivolous complaints rapidly.”
Comments
By SpaceyG
March 14, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this
Wow! Erick finally said something I agree with.
By GodHatesTrash
March 14, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this
Can you imagine someone paying Erick Erickson cash for his advice? A stupid sucker born every minute, and in Georgia, some of those morons run for office…
I’ll tell you one damn thing - he’s in tune with the moron vote… Silly, stupid sleazebag.
Trash.
By carismar
March 14, 2008 10:54 PM | Link to this
You’re steamed just ‘cause he banned you.
By GodHatesTrash
March 15, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this
I just don’t care for chickenhawk trash.
Sorry.
By Warbler
March 16, 2008 11:13 PM | Link to this
Filing an ethics complaint is racist.