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...little difference when he left thirteen months ahead of schedule, leaving America’s embassy to its closest ally leaderless for a year. He was succeeded in 2004 by Robert Holmes Tuttle, owner of the Beverly Hills based Tuttle-Click Automotive Group, and contributor of $198,725 to GOP causes over the last presidential term. Like Oberwetter, neither Farish nor Tuttle had previous diplomatic experience...
...GOP has reason to be happy. Through April, Mollohan faced mounting allegations in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times that he had routed as much as $250 million of federal money to nonprofits he set up, employees and contractors of which in turn funneled money to his campaigns. He had also been accused of underreporting real estate holdings on his personal financial disclosure forms. Mollohan has denied wrongdoing...
...Democrats insist that Mollohan's fall does not neutralize their corruption attacks against the GOP. ?That?s wishful thinking on their part,? says Brendan Daly, the spokesman for House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi. Counterattacking, Pelosi has criticized a watered-down lobbying reform bill House Republicans introduced this week that only temporarily bans private funding of House member travel and allows private interest groups to pay for meals and flights on corporate jets. She's also linking two hot-button issues to corruption: gas prices and prescription drugs. ?People know that Republicans are in charge in Washington and the culture...
...that happens, the GOP has a ready-made answer, and his name is Alan Mollohan. ?Everytime they bring [ethics] up they're going to face it,? says Winston. So even if you didn't catch his name the first time around, you're likely to hear the story of Alan Mollohan's dismal exit from the House ethics committee many more times in the coming months...
...middle of an election year, it's also not altogether surprising that Georgia's GOP governor signed the Security and Immigration Compliance Act. Even though the state continues to trend more Republican, Perdue faces a very real challenge this fall from Democratic Secretary of State Cathy Cox, and the law commanded broad public support in a state with an estimated 500,000 to 800,000 undocumented immigrants...