{"id":3022,"date":"2006-07-01T19:38:59","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T02:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2006-07-02T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2006-07-02T19:43:07","slug":"staffers-of-ohios-soon-to-be-indicted-rep-bob-ney-all-quit-on-same-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3022","title":{"rendered":"Staffers of Ohio&#8217;s Soon-to-be-Indicted Rep. Bob Ney All Quit on Same Day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2262\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BobNey_Dejected_med.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Just one of the many recent, yet notable, items I was unable to cover over the past week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, <i>Roll Call<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/1_1\/breakingnews\/14112-1.html\">reported<\/a> that all three of the major staffers for Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH), the lead author\/co-sponsor of the disastrous Help America Vote Act (HAVA), are running for the hills.<\/p>\n<p>The departures are described as &#8220;the latest sign that Ney&#8217;s legal and ethical troubles stemming from the Jack Abramoff scandal are growing worse with each passing day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Josh Marshall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/008884.php\">covered<\/a> the exits of his &#8220;troika&#8221; &#8212; his Chief of Staff, Legislative Director and Communications Director &#8212; all scramming on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>We first referred to Ney as &#8220;the soon-to-be-indicted&#8221; back in January when we published <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2262\">our expos\u00e9<\/a> connecting the dots between Ney, Abramoff, Diebold, HAVA and Ney&#8217;s even-more-former chief of staff, David DiStefano, who became Diebold&#8217;s main congressional lobbyist. That expos\u00e9 has been wholly ignored by the mainstream media ever since. (<i>Except for Matt Taibbi who <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2694\">referenced<\/a> the info, but without attribution, in an April <\/i>Rolling Stone<i> piece on Abramoff.<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one of the many recent, yet notable, items I was unable to cover over the past week&#8230; On Thursday, Roll Call reported that all three of the major staffers for Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH), the lead author\/co-sponsor of the disastrous Help America Vote Act (HAVA), are running for the hills. The departures are described [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3,41,15],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-ney","category-dieboldpremier","category-jack-abramoff","category-ohio","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}