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- Trading Sen. Gregg Seat would Exceed Gov. Bogojevich Transgression
- Byron A. Ellis - February 03,2009
Apparently, if Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) is to become Secretary of Commerce in the Obama administration a quid pro quo deal must occur; in essence, a Bogojevich. So, a trade of the New Hampshire Senate seat would be no different from what politicians and the media claimed that the former Illinois Governor attempted to do. A trade of the Senate seat personally benefits Sen. Judd and others.
If it was wrong for Governor Bogojevich to contemplate gain from the Illinois vacant Senate seat, then it is equally wrong for Sen. Gregg, Governor Lynch, and the Obama administration to contemplate gain.
According to Kornblut from The Washington Post, Gregg is openly demanding a trade for his seat.
If the Lynch trades the Senate seat for the Democrats, he would have gone further than Bogojevich, since it is alleged that the former Illinois Governor only contemplated benefiting from the trading the seat. An actual, trade was not consummated. Nonetheless, he was impeached by fellow politicians and tossed out of office.
Fairness would require that the public, politicians and the media, scrutinize any quid pro quo on the part of Governor Lynch and if it occurs demand an impeachment process. And, if there is no impeachment from a New Hampshire pay to play politics, then Bogojevich claim that the case against him was personal might be accurate.
The process of allowing Governors to fill vacant Senate seats provides a strong incentive for pay to play appointments, which antidemocratic.
If Sen. Gregg wants to become Secretary of Commerce, he and the Republicans forfeit any claim to that Senate seat. And, if Governor Lynch trades the seat, the process applied to Bogojevich should be applied to him.
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