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The strange world of Curt Weldon
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| Contributor | karin1492 |
| Last Edited | karin1492 Oct 23, 2006 12:55pm |
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| Category | Perspective |
| Media | Newspaper - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| News Date | Monday, October 23, 2006 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Precisely what is going on inside Mr. Weldon's noggin is anyone's guess.
Curt Weldon's problems would be manageable if they were solely legal. Lots of congressmen are accused of trading on power to help their children, and in Washington, ethics is largely defined by whatever doesn't embarrass your colleagues into apology.
So when Mr. Weldon, a 10-term Republican from the Philadelphia suburbs who has made his reputation as a defense policy savant and well-wired player inside the party caucus, found himself publicly identified as the target of an FBI investigation last week, he did the usual: He called the timing suspicious, complained it was a political vendetta by the left and noted that he'd already been cleared by the inerrant House Ethics Committee.
But, in an interview with student reporters at the University of Pennsylvania, he also suggested that the goods against him were somehow tied to documents that former presidential adviser Sandy Berger smuggled out of the National Archives. It was a glimpse into what should have made voters in his district nervous some years ago: The Hon. Curtis Weldon, R-Pa., displays a worldview that just gets loopier and loopier.
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