Does this matter. Does ethics really matter. Frist's 2008 campaign may be dead in the water, especially if a dem AG is on his heels, if not for anything-else but to keep the pressure on him. Not to mention Traitorgate (what ever happened to that), and Delay gate. All this scandal, and the best I can see is that Dems pick up a handful of seats in 2006. I don't really think ethics in this age matters much.
Frist Issue Adds to GOP's Ethics Troubles
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/24/AR2005092401379.html?sub=new
Sale of Stock Before Its Price Fell Gives Critics Opening to Target Senate Leadership
By Charles Babington and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 25, 2005; Page A06
Two federal inquiries into Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's stock sales have handed Democrats a chance to broaden their long-stated claim that Republicans push ethical boundaries and focus on laws that help the rich, political analysts said yesterday.
Until now, such accusations have centered on the House and White House. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (Tex.) has been chastised three times by the chamber's ethics committee, and a Texas grand jury recently indicted a political action committee he had organized. The Bush administration's top federal procurement official, David H. Safavian, was arrested last week on charges of obstructing a criminal investigation into lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has close ties to DeLay and other prominent GOP lawmakers.
Now, with the revelation that federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission are looking into Frist's sale of hospital stock shortly before its value fell, Democrats are expanding their ethics accusations into the Senate's GOP leadership ranks.
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