Yesterday, DeLay's entire staff walked out on short-term replacement Shelley Sekula-Gibbs because the people who worked for
Tom DeLay thought she was too evil.
She also threw a hissy fit when George Bush didn't stop by to greet her, a 2-month congresswoman who will be replaced by Democrat Nick Lampson in January.
And she has said, with a straight face, that she planned to solve the immigration crisis, win the war in Iraq, and cut taxes during her two-month term.
Today, her efforts to thoroughly discredit herself and destroy any possibility of a future career in politics continued.
The turmoil in newly elected Rep. Shelley Sekula-Gibbs' office deepened Thursday with the Houston Republican demanding a congressional investigation of aides who quit in a mass walkout earlier this week.
Sekula-Gibbs said the staffers, holdovers from her predecessor Tom DeLay, deleted records from the office's computers Monday, the day before seven of them resigned in apparent protest of their treatment.
"As public servants, they have harmed the 22nd Congressional District and they have brought shame to this office," Sekula-Gibbs said in a statement. "I have a duty to investigate." [...]
David James, who was chief of staff under DeLay and ran the office after the Texas Republican resigned in June, flatly denied that he or his colleagues had acted improperly.
House rules demand that computers be scrubbed clean before a new representative takes over, James noted.
January can't come soon enough for the people of the 22nd to have a sane grownup in charge of that office.