Ethics committee admonishes Lindsey Graham for soliciting contributions for Walker

The Senate Select Committee on Ethics admonished Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Thursday for soliciting campaign contributions for former Georgia GOP Senate hopeful Herschel Walker from a Senate office building last November.

On November 30, Graham spoke with Fox News about the Georgia runoff election and urged viewers to view Walker’s campaign website five times, per the commission. According to the council, Graham committed the same offense twice.

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The panel wrote in a email,” The Committee issues you this Public Letter of Admonition because your behavior violated Senate standards of conduct.”

The public’s trust and confidence in the United States Senate have been damaged as a result of your actions failing to uphold that standards. You are now warned ,” it continued.

The bipartisan screen cited a similar lawsuit made against Graham over an incident that occurred on October 14, 2020, and noted that Graham’s action essentially entailed follow violations. He held an” accidental media interview in the Dirksen Senate Office Building” in 2020 to raise money for his system.

However, the panel determined that the irreverence in that case was” accidental, professional, or sometimes of a de minimis design” and dismissed it on March 8, 2021.

In a recent letter to Graham, the panel stated that” the court must feel satisfied that Members use public resources mainly for legal actions in the best interests of the United States, neither for partisan political exercise.” Graham” did self-report” his behavior to the president and vice president, the committee also acknowledged.

Graham enthusiastically ran for Walker in the 2020 midterm elections in an effort to keep the 50-50 Senate, but Walker lost to Sen. Raphael Warnock( D-GA ), solidifying Democrats’ one-seat pickup. Graham’s Senate opponent in 2020, Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison, criticized Graham after the November exam.

” It is an ethical violation to solicit campaign donations in a public office making!” Harrison tweeted at the time,” I guess he believes morality rules don’t apply to him. He did this when we ran into each other.

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Different scandals had plagued Walker, including claims that he pressured a person to get an abortion while paying her for one. Walker led a fervently anti-abortion system. He officially refuted the charge.

Graham’s director was contacted by The Washington Examiner for comment.