"A personal vendetta" thwarted

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Mel Watt is the proud owner of an "affirmative action" congressional district, the 12th, which was racially gerrymandered to give Watt a majority-black district in central North Carolina. How has he used his power? Here's one example:

The U.S. House on Friday roundly rejected a move by U.S. Rep. Mel Watt to slice the budget of an independent ethics office, a move several watchdog groups denounced and one called "a personal vendetta."

By a vote of 302-102, the House defeated Watt's amendment that would have cut the budget of the independent Office of Congressional Ethics by 40 percent. Last year Watt was the subject of an OCE investigation, though ultimately cleared.

Those in the know saw what Rep. Mel was up to:

"It seems unlikely to me Mr. Watt would have been engaged in this had he not been investigated by the OCE," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the Washington-based Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics. "The public believes the ethics of Congress are terrible, and amendments like this only play into that."

I'm waiting for some ultra-sensitive soul to denounce ethics standards as "racist."