House Ethics Committee investigating Buchanan

Seems like a illegitimate story to me “EA”. Would the public not want to know this was going on? For you to suggest this is a witch hunt is laughable. You must be one of the people on the take for sure.

LOL – if you really believe there is a witch hunt shouldn’t you go all Glen Beck on the House Ethics committee and not the the Herald-Tribune??

And for goodness sake wouldn’t you want to know if your congressman is a crook regardless of party?? Especially one with such a sordid history as Buchanan?

You people are too much….

Oh my goodness I hope Vern doesn’t suffer the horrendous fate of the Democrat superstars Charlie Rangel and Maxime Waters….How pathetic Jerm Wallace is with his” swan song”. story..Don’t forget folks…Halifax Media Hioldings LLC…Little Rock Ark…

maybe we need to check to see if citizens are using this board,or just some more illegals!!!C

Politicians = thieves
Partisan comments = brainwashed citizens

American Speedy Printing story in Michigan has always followed Vern around. He needs to be looked at.

It is he said she said. But look at the facts. The employees admit they were given the money to contribute to Vern’s campaign. Now who has the incentive to give them the money? Is it Vern or his auto dealer partner? Since you cannot believe either one I wold say it was Vern who had the most to gain from giving them the money.

If we demand accountability in government,then this is part of the process. Before “public” judgement is passed…let the U.S.House Ethics Committee do their job without bias or prejudice. There will be plenty of time for the know-it-alls when the report comes out.

You got him, Jeremy! Oh, wait. You didn’t.

BUCHANAN’S SO-CALLED “JOB CREATION ACT OF 2011″

The Federal Election Commission, the House Ethics Committee and the Department of Justice are all investigating ethical complaints against Representative Vern Buchanan from our Florida 13th congressional district. The allegations are extremely disturbing and must be resolved. But in a nation of laws, we must all await the outcomes of legitimate investigative and legal processes.

Meanwhile, such distractions may be diverting our attention from matters of great immediacy to our country and our district. Preoccupation with his alleged 2006-08 campaign finance violations may be keeping us from focusing on the policies Representative Buchanan is currently promoting. A case in point is H.R. 3487, euphemistically labeled the “Job Creation Act of 2011,” which our Congressman introduced on November 18, 2011.

Buchanan’s bill, H.R 3487, has nine titles, some with tenuous or no perceivable relation to its purported subject-matter:

Title I on “Trade” would express the “sense of the Congress” in favor of entry into force of Free Trade Agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. Whether one agrees or disagrees with these problematical FTAs, at least this provision raises legitimate issues reasonably related to jobs and the economy. Title I also states concerns over violations of intellectual property rights, particularly by Chinese piracy, which pose grave international trade problems for the United States.

Title II on “Tax Reform” opines that comprehensive tax reform and reductions, coupled with reduced Federal spending, could lead to significant job creation. Its provisions are hortatory in nature and appear simplistic, but again the tax debate may be legitimately related to the supposed subject of the bill, “job creation.”

Title III on “Balanced Budget Amendment” is more tenuous. Many of us disagree with the proposed Amendment (although advocating balanced budgets); but for or against, our views have little to do with the issue of its job creation potential.

H.R. 3487 goes downhill from there. Title IV on “Energy” deals with oil and gas leasing with the coastal plain. While paying verbal homage to environmental protection, the provisions of this title could have just the opposite effect.

One must credit Title V on “Reduction in Federal Workforce” with dealing with “jobs.” It is difficult, however, to comprehend how blanketly mandating cutting the number of federal employees by 10% over the next four years is supposed to lead to significant job “creation.”

Title VI on “Repeal of Employer Health Insurance Mandate” shows considerable solicitude for employers, with little concern for possible adverse effects on working families. Of course, the health care debate is in-and-of-itself important, even crucial, but not as presented in this bill.

Title VII sounds innocuous as the “Secret Ballot Protection Act.” What it would actually do, however, is seriously to undermine employee free choice and collective bargaining rights.

Title VIII on “Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Improvements” descends into the ludicrous. This title would amend Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 to impose additional sanctions on attorneys for filing “frivolous lawsuits,” extend the federal rule to “state cases affecting interstate commerce” and impose far-reaching additional sanctions on attorneys. Such self-indulgent airing of Buchanan’s personal disenchantment with judicial proceedings in a bill supposedly dealing with “job creation” demeans that vital subject.

Finally, Title IX is entitled “Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2011.” The Regulatory Flexibility Act has the commendable purpose of establishing the principle that federal agencies shall endeavor “to fit regulatory and informational requirements to the scale of businesses.” The proposed amendments in H.R. 3487 could, however, seriously affect careful balances between social and business goals of federal regulations.

The objective here is not detailed legislative analysis of H.R. 3487. Buchanan’s bill has no cosponsors and is not going anywhere fast. Rather, the point is to caution against falling prey to what we condemn in our elected representatives. Certainly, many of us have strong feelings abut Buchanan’s seemingly endless ethical challenges and about partisan politics generally. Meanwhile, however, our country is still in a highly precarious economic state, and vital matters are being determined either affirmatively or by default. We as citizens owe it to ourselves and to our electoral system to examine the issues of our times and to act upon them.

Thank you Vern for doing so much for Sarasota and the communities…We are so lucky to have you..Just think if we had the likes of a Jan Schneider we would be in really deep doo ddo..She is not only obnoxious she is dumb….Thank you Vern for getting things done for this community not like the Democrat Senator Nelson,talk about dumbells…Neson has done nothing not only for Sarasota but not even for Florida….He did get together with the FRAUD OBAMA and shut down NASA….Once again thanks Vern and did you see where moveon.org is going bankrupt just like the New York Times…Yipeeeeee !!!

Ho hum.

No smoking gun has been/was found by the FEC. No e-mails, no phone messages, as alluded to by the accusers.

Wake me when there is actually evidence against Vern. It appears by the 5-0 FEC that evidence was not found by the FEC. Now Justice and HEC are at bat. Let real facts prevail not opinions.