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20070306
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Hastings
- Ed
Cassidy
- Boehner
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-  California
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- 2004
Election - US
Attorneys -  Law
- "Hearing
on U.S. attorney's ouster reveals Hastings' office contacted McKay."
... "During the recount of the hotly contested 2004 governor's race in
Washington state, the chief of staff to [Washington state Republican Representative]
Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., called former U.S. Attorney John McKay to inquire
about the status of any federal investigations into voter fraud, McKay
told a Senate committee today." ... "McKay told the Senate Judiciary Committee
that Ed Cassidy, who now works for [Ohio Republican Representative] Republican
Minority Leader John Boehner, called him "some weeks" following the 2004
election, and after a third re-count had determined that Democrat Christine
Gregoire had narrowly defeated Republican Dino Rossi." ... ""I was told
the purpose of the call was to inquire on behalf of congressman Hastings"
about the status of ongoing investigations of voter fraud, McKay said in
response to a question from [California Democratic Senator] Sen. Dianne
Feinstein." ... "McKay said that he informed Cassidy that the office of
the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington had already asked
the public to contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation with any evidence
of voter fraud, so it could be investigated." ... "Cassidy then began to
ask McKay whether any future action would be taken by the U.S. Attorney's
office with regard to the governor's race." ... ""When Mr. Cassidy called
me on future action I stopped him and I told him I was sure that he wasn't
asking me on behalf" of Congressman Hastings, McKay told the committee,
"because we both knew that would be improper. [Cassidy] agreed it would
be improper and he ended the conversation in a most expeditious manner.""
-By David Bowermaster, Mike Carter and Alicia Mundy
-SeattleTimes.NWsource
20050625
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- "Ethics
claims target Doc Hastings." ... "[Washington state
Republican Representative] Rep. Doc Hastings, already under fire as chairman
of the stalled House ethics committee, accepted a $7,800 trip to England
[UK] in 2000 from a company he championed for a multibillion-dollar contract
at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, records released by an advocacy group
yesterday show." ... "In addition, other records released yesterday by
a political Web site show that Hastings, a Republican from Pasco, did not
file a required travel report for a 2004 trip to a resort on Stuart Island,
B.C. [British Columbia, Canada] That was paid for by another company also
working at Hanford." ... "Hastings has been under fire for not scheduling
hearings on ethics allegations against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
DeLay is accused of accepting a trip paid for by lobbyist Jack Abramoff,
who is under investigation over allegations that he defrauded clients of
millions of dollars." ... "The ethics committee has been stalled for six
weeks. Democrats, led by ranking member Alan Mollohan [Representative]
of West Virginia, declined to meet after Hastings proposed making his longtime
chief of staff, Ed Cassidy, staff director for the committee." ... "Mollohan
said that violates rules that say professional staffers who take part in
investigations of House members must be nonpartisan and elected by committee
members."I don't think it's possible to make the rule clearer," he said.
"It is very simple."" -By Alicia Mundy
-SeattleTimes
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