Matt Gaetz may be done with the House of Representatives, but his former colleagues aren’t through with him yet.
Lawmakers on Thursday are expected to decide the fate of the long-awaited House ethics report into sexual misconduct allegations against Gaetz, with many pressing for its release even though the Florida Republican has left Congress and withdrawn as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general. Gaetz denies the allegations.
The bipartisan committee planned to vote in the afternoon on whether to make public the findings of their yearslong inquiry. If they decide against that disclosure, Democrats are poised to force votes on the House floor requiring the committee to publish the full report.
It shouldn’t matter it is a scumbag or not. Either the report exonerates him, or he wasn’t acting ethically which we should know about. Either way there should be no discussion whether or should be released or not.
The fact that this is debated, says that there major ethical issues among people deciding about it.
I look at it this way: this was work done by a governing body, who were elected to perform the work. This wasn’t an FBI criminal investigation. It was a legislative ethics investigation on another legislator.
There is no earthly reason this should not be available to the public, no matter how innocent the report is.