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The House Committee on Ethics is shaking things up by launching an investigative subcommittee probe into Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL). This move comes after the Office of Congressional Ethics said, “Hey, there might be something fishy going on here,” and follows an earlier extension of the inquiry back in November.
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The investigative subcommittee has a very important job – they have to figure out if Cherfilus-McCormick broke any of the rules or laws while doing her representative duties. That means they’re diving into whether she messed up the Code of Official Conduct or any other important standards while on the job.
The accusations on the table are no joke. They include stuff like not playing by the campaign finance rules during her special election and re-election campaigns in 2022, not giving out the right info on the forms she filed with the House, and even maybe getting some free help with her official work from someone who wasn’t even on her payroll.
Now, this investigative subcommittee isn’t just made up of one party – it’s got both Republicans and Democrats on the team.
A spokesperson for Cherfilus-McCormick said, “We take this stuff seriously and we’re going to fix things up,” but the folks over at Inside Elections are raising some eyebrows. They’re pointing to some TV commercials that ended with a sketchy-sounding line about being paid for with “official funds from the office of Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick.” Now, she’s claiming these weren’t campaign ads, but rather they were funded by her taxpayer-supported congressional office.
Turns out, using taxpayer money for campaign stuff is a big no-no. There are all kinds of laws and rules that say members of Congress have to keep their official business and their campaign business totally separate. It’s like Sheldon from “The Big Bang Theory” making his “fun with flags” videos.
