Dems dump Jefferson

NY Times:

House Democrats voted on Thursday night to strip a Louisiana congressman of a key committee position as they tried to avoid any taint of scandal in a year when they want to ride accusations of Republican corruption to election victories.

The congressman, William J. Jefferson, is the subject of a federal bribery investigation and has insisted he has done nothing wrong. He has rebuffed efforts to get him to step aside voluntarily.

After a meeting stretching more than three hours, the Democrats voted to remove him from the House Ways and Means Committee until his case is resolved. The action, on a 99-to-58 vote, is subject to the approval by the full House.

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The vote in the full house should be interesting. Do the Republicans keep him around as an embarrassment to the Democrats while showing blacks that they believe in due process, or do they go along with dumping a guy who has engaged in conduct that looks like a crime for which he has offered no adequate explanation? I think either way the Republicans are the winner in this deal.

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