We noticed a Speaker election was coming up on Jan 7. We noticed a large disparity between the spinning and the truth in order to protect the Speaker. We noticed a few errant Republicans bravely breaking ranks, primarily because they had read all the evidence carefully. We noticed the need to provide quality information to citizens so that, before Jan 21, they could write to their Reps. about the Gingrich ethics matter in an informed and persuasive way. T o be persuasive, folks need information.
Persuasion is like an ongoing active form of voting.
It's not passive. Mr. Gingrich and the GOP leadership have hoped to minimize public exposure of the facts contained in both major ethics reports. They've had a great deal to gain by the media missing this story. Don't dismiss it as a conspiracy. The House parliamentarian said Ms. Johnson didn't have the authority.