Congressional and DOJ double standard

Dear editor,

What is the Congressional Accountability Act? It was intended to make Congress subject to the same workplace laws against sexual harassment and gender discrimination as the rest of American employers.

The provisions of the law mandated that settlements from the Congressional-sexual-harassment-taxpayer-paid-for slush fund was to secretly pick up the tab for lawmakers violating the law being the exact opposite of Congressional accountability.

When was this law passed? In 1995. What President signed it into law? Bill Clinton did so in his third year of his first term.

Before and during Bill's presidency, he had a number of sexual harassment accusers and one non-accusing, more than willing presidential supporter and White House intern who saved her dress as evidence.

Who are the only two congressional members known to the public to have accessed this secret slush fund? Past Democrat Senator Al Franken and past democrat Representative John Conyers who acknowledged his $27,000 dollar payment from his office account but disguised it as “severance pay."

Since 1997 there have been 264 settlements and awards totaling more than $17 million, and $9 million of that came between the nine years of 2007 and 2016 being eight years of Obama's presidency according the U.S. Office of Compliance.

Even today, we, the voting public, are still uninformed of all these payouts except for Conyers' $27,000.

Without this information, did it influence any elections for those congressional members with any unknown settlements or awards from this slush fund? According to Bill and Hillary Clinton's White House lawyer and now Michael Cohen's plea deal lawyer being Lanny Davis the answer is "Yes"!

But none of these officials were charged with influencing any elections including Lanny Davis with his time at the Clinton White House. This is a Congressional and DOJ double standard of Democrat supporters' "Swamp Justice!"

Bill was impeached for lying to Congress under oath, not for his accused sexual exploits before and during his presidency that was obviously covered or hushed up by many people to influence maybe more than one presidential election.

These two allegations, if true regarding Trump happened long ago, ten years or more, before his announcement for the presidency and only then did these two women seek "shake down hush money" with perfectly legal non-disclosure agreements and payments.

Otherwise, both would also be co-conspirators in influencing an election. Only after his election win were these women and payments made public, violating their own non-disclosure agreements.

The FBI and DOJ illegal wiretapping of Trump's campaign retrieved this information because of a Hillary and DNC paid-for fake dossier from two foreign spies — one Russian — given to both the FBI and DOJ for four illegal FISA wiretap warrants!

STEVEN KING 

Milton

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This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Congressional and DOJ double standard