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Dent cracks an Ethics Committee joke, Callahan pounces
Congressman Charlie Dent (R-15) would rather be on the Appropriations Committee. He’s not alone in coveting an influential spot that probably hundreds of lawmakers want. But when Democratic challenger John Callahan’s campaign got hold of a video in which Dent briefly seems to make light of being on the Ethics Committee instead, it quickly pounced.
Callahan’s campaign released the clip as part of a larger campaign video Wednesday. In it, Dent, joined by House Minority John Boehner at a recent fundraiser, jokes that “I asked [Boehner] for the Appropriations Committee and he put me on the Ethics Committee.
Laughter ensues, and Boehner interjects with a smile: “Oh, it was appropriations you wanted? You know, listen, you can’t have, you can’t have the dessert until you eat your vegetables.”
Dent didn’t deride the committee’s role or work, but Callahan’s campaign called hypocrisy, citing statements Dent made at a recent campaign debate lauding his work on the committee.
“Congressman Dent is part of the problem in Washington DC,” Callahan campaign manager Justin Schall said. “People have lost faith in their elected officials because of hypocrisy like Dent saying one thing to voters, but another when he’s hanging out by the pool with Republican Leader Boehner and his donors. Charlie has forgotten that it is his job to represent voters, not make jokes at their expense.”
Dent’s campaign quickly fired back.
“Representative Dent takes his work on the Ethics Committee very seriously and he puts a lot of time and effort into this Committee,” Dent campaign manager Shawn Millan said. “Apparently, the failing Callahan campaign can’t even grasp at straws correctly.”
See the Callahan campaign’s video below.
September 23, 2010 at 10:05 am
Tags: Charlie Dent, John Callahan, PA-15
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Denthole
Sep 23rd, 2010
woah that’s ugly. not surprised. dent is clearly just another politician and not a real leader.
sick of it all
Sep 23rd, 2010
why are republicans so arrogant? do not know much about dent, but I’ve seen enough of boner to know that if this guy is his buddy there is something wrong with him.
DaveB
Sep 24th, 2010
Liberals once again demonstrating that they have no sense of humor – and are especially petty when they are in big trouble.
Time to get a life.
Intelligent Voter
Sep 24th, 2010
Definitely grasping at straws….
delco mod
Sep 24th, 2010
Wow, that’s embarrassing. If that’s all Callahan’s got, he’s toast.
MarieS
Sep 24th, 2010
Wow, this is a really lame attempt to make some lighthearted banter into something sneaky and evil. But here’s the big question – if the pool party was a “private” event at which Dent said something in private that he wouldn’t say in public, why the heck was there a podium?!?!?! Like I said, really, REALLY lame of the Callahan camapign to think THIS would get him a couple of points in the polls.
Maverick
Sep 25th, 2010
Callahan is really grasping at starws. Hasn’t he read any of the press over the last year that talks about how the ethics committee had done more in the last year than ever before. I guess the jokes Callahan made about wanted to “do” one of his mayoral interns was serious as well.
mzanony
Jun 14th, 2011
What is reprehensible to me about those “in judgment of Weiner” are people like Nancy Pelosi, who, 2 months before she even took her oath of office, was TELLING Americans IMPEACHMENT OF BUSHBABY WAS “OFF THE TABLE?!” yet dares point a finger at ANYONE considering her refusal to demand due recourse for our embroilment in an illegal war while Congress itself committed treason against the United States Constitution with passage of the patriot’s (PATOOHEY!) act?
The other outrageously unqualified accuser is “the moral indignation” of the reichpugnican party. If Weiner had any competent PR staff, they would have scrambled to offer up to the press a “reminder montage” of pics of all the sex scandals of elected reichpugnicans over the past 10 years, including all the married tele-evangelists – so as to place “poor judgment” in a much needed proper context of not only the “so-called morality of Christians” but the reichpugnican party’s own “judgment” to:
destroy Medicare,
destroy health care and all social programs for all Americans,
destroy the rights of women in all aspects of life (both professional and personal),
destroy “pesky parts” of the Constitution,
destroy our nation by continued support of war mongering,
destroy our nation by continued support of the patriot’s (PATOOHEY) act,
destroy our nation’s environment by letting corporations destroy our air, land and water,
destroy our school system for both primary and secondary educational opportunities,
destroy arts funding nationwide (both in schools and our national culture at large),
destroy the poor and lower class American by forcing them to fund tax breaks for the rich,
destroy social security by privatizing it via the bankers (who so deserve our further trust),
(and) Congress’s own failings to rein in abuse of due process by not only allowing federal judges to commit blatantly illegal acts, but the Supreme Court involving itself in the electoral process (OVER WHICH IT HAD NO LEGAL AUTHORITY WHATSOEVER) to ensure bushbaby’s illegal “election.”
Weiner’s wiener should be the least of our worries as a nation – compared to ALL the above ATROCITIES THAT EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN “is exposed to” daily – - thanks to such abysmal behavioral examples exhibited by all these other elected representatives!