Alcee Hastings’ (D, FL-23) sexual harassment investigation.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 22nd at 09:00 AM  | 

This is a preliminary investigation by the Office of Congressional Ethics, and it’s done in the wake of a March lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch on behalf of former U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (also known as the Helsinki Commission) staffer Winsome Packer.  The suit alleges sexual harassment, attempted extortion (for Hastings’ re-election campaign), and acts of retaliation against Ms. Packer’s attempts | Read More »

Elections. Have. Consequences.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 20th at 05:42 PM  | 

Here, meet one. “All this talk about rules. When the deal goes down, we make ‘em up as we go along.” Rep. Alcee Hastings was the sixth federal judge in American history to be impeached from office (bribery and perjury). The voters of FL-23 may have elected him afterward, but it was the Democratic party leadership that let him join the Rules Committee. And it’s | Read More »