{"id":582645,"date":"2010-05-27T23:01:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/sestak-reiterates-white-house-job-offer-claim-issa-to-file-ethics-complaint\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T23:01:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T03:01:22","slug":"sestak-reiterates-white-house-job-offer-claim-issa-to-file-ethics%c2%a0complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582645","title":{"rendered":"Sestak Reiterates White House Job Offer Claim, Issa To File Ethics\u00a0Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/White+House_1961_19799979_0_0_7058629_300.jpg\" alt=\"Sestak reiterates White House job offer claim, Issa to file ethics complaint\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the top ranking Republican on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, says he will file an ethics complaint against Representative Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) if he doesn&#8217;t provide details about an alleged illegal job offer from the White House. <\/p>\n<p>Sestak, who recently defeated Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) in the Democratic primary, said in February that the Obama administration offered him a high-ranking cabinet position if he dropped out of the race. <\/p>\n<p>During an interview May 23 on <i>NBC&#8217;s Meet the Press<\/i>, Sestak reiterated his claim, but refused to provide specifics regarding the allegation. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I was offered the job,&quot; he said. &quot;Anything that goes beyond that is for others to talk about.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said during a separate interview on <i>Meet the Press<\/i> that the administration&#8217;s lawyers had looked into the claim, and found that &quot;nothing inappropriate&quot; happened. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is unacceptable for an administration that touts itself as the &#8216;most transparent&#8217; in history to continue to stonewall a significant and potentially devastating accusation of political corruption,&quot; responded Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.<\/p>\n<p>Issa said that he will file a formal complaint with the House Ethics Committee if an investigation into Sestak&#8217;s allegation is not launched, <i>Politico.com<\/i> reports. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Either he&#8217;s lying, or covering up felonies for political purposes,&quot; said Issa. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19799979-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19799979\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the top ranking Republican on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, says he will file an ethics complaint against Representative Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) if he doesn&#8217;t provide details about an alleged illegal job offer from the White House. Sestak, who recently defeated Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) in the Democratic primary, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}