Joel Hefley: “it is amazing what a little sunshine will do. Political corruption, fraud, criminal activity and wrongdoing cannot…”

“it is amazing what a little sunshine will do. Political corruption, fraud, criminal activity and wrongdoing cannot operate in the light of day. When corrupt practices are opened up to public scrutiny, wrongdoers are held accountable for their actions. The White House Travel Office abuse of power; the 900 FBI files of Republicans that were discovered; the entertaining of drug dealers and arms smugglers in the White House; the use of the Lincoln bedroom for fund-raising; dialing for dollars from the White House; the selling of trade missions to raise money; the laundering of money at a Buddhist temple; putting $25,000 price tags on White House coffees; returning over $2 million in campaign contributions because they came from illegal sources. All these were activities that were not conducted in the light of day and had to be exposed by journalists and congressional investigators. And now we have the IRS. The abusive practices of the IRS, known to millions of individual Americans, began to be open to public scrutiny last year as a result of the Senate hearings. The first rays of sunshine are starting to come through, and the IRS looks even worse than we thought. Free people cannot tolerate any of these abuses, at the White House or at the IRS.”