And The Republicans Are Supposed To Rebuild NOLA
Via TPMMuckraker:
According to The New York Times this morning, it all began to unravel when Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX), a CPA, asked to meet with the audit firm that was supposedly checking the NRCC’s books, an idea that apparently no one had had for several years. Christopher Ward, then the NRCC’s treasurer, finally relented, but then chickened out 30 minutes before and fessed up that there actually hadn’t been any audits.
It was ultimately discovered that Ward had been faking the audits since 2003. The Politico, which laid out this general outline of events early last month, reported that Ward had forged everything, including the letterhead. So when it came time to actually talk to the people who’d supposedly written those fake reports, it all unraveled.
See, the NRCC is the National Republican Congressional Committee, one of the most powerful arms of the Republican party. If they can’t even balance their own books how the hell do we think they can even begin to allocate and manage the billions to rebuild the Gulf coast. Oh wait that is right, we already know they can’t.
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