Sen. Menendez contacted top officials in friend’s Medicare dispute

[karynnj]

15. It is bad

There ARE more Congressmen and Senators that have problems, though this is more blatant than most. I think this is partly caused by the need to raise huge sums of money to run for office. Menendez is not rich nor was he surrounded by rich friends. I would conjecture the favors may have started relatively innocently because he was a friend and donor. However, if this story and others are true, it is a problem.

I agree with you that we should not allow these actions. However, "slightly wrong" if the list is not clear and existing before the action was done, could lead to targeting people for partisan, political reasons.