Wally wrote:

NAACP lobbyist slammed for Kennedy judge memo


By Charles Hurt
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


Several conservative activists charge that an NAACP attorney

acted
unethically and should be disbarred for asking Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to
stall the confirmation of a judicial nominee who the lawyer feared would

rule unfavorably on a case involving the group.

Elaine Jones, president of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund, asked Mr. Kennedy,
Massachusetts Democrat, to block the nomination of Tennessee Judge Julia
S. Gibbons to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals until after that
panel had ruled on last year's landmark affirmative action case, an
internal Democratic memo showed.

http://washingtontimes.com/national/...0142-7947r.htm


Other than trying to shift the spotlight to the Dems, why would you bring this
up?

If Kennedy is acting unethically, does that grant a license to everybody else
to do the same?

Is it OK to screw around with the public trust as long as somebody else is
doing the same or worse?

Nah. I don't think so.

Besides, there's a difference between lobbying and bribery. Not much,
sometimes, but a difference nonetheless.