Doolittle Throws His Wife Under The Bus

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/18/doolittle-wife/

Rep. John Doolittle’s (R-CA) statement tonight:

Doolittle Responds to Reports about FBI Search of Wife’s Business

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Roseville) issued a statement to media questions regarding reports of an FBI search of his wife’s business in Virginia.

Doolittle said, “My wife has been cooperating with the FBI and the Justice Department for almost three years and that cooperation is going to continue in the future. I support my wife 100 percent and fully expect that the truth will prevail.”

Doolittle apparently expects people to believe that he has nothing to do with the investigation of his wife’s business. That’s laughable.

(snip)

San Diego attorney Stanley Zubel, who heads Californians for a Cleaner Congress, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said Julie Doolittle’s commissions raise troubling questions about whether the congressman personally benefited from his support of Wilkes’ projects. “For all practical purposes, when someone’s wife earns money, then he earns money, especially in a community-property state like California,” Zubel said. “He can’t separate this out and say, ‘This is my wife’s money.’ If she’s getting a benefit, he’s getting a benefit.”

[habitual]

1. hardly throwing her under the bus, more like taking

shelter behind her... or, using her as a human shield. but, not throwing her under the bus.