It’s like Christmas every day with Shelley Sekula Gibbs in Congress.
Just three days after being sworn in, U.S. Rep. Shelley Sekula-Gibbs wants Congress to investigate the destruction of files in her office by former staff members of her predecessor, Tom DeLay.
Seven staffers walked out of her office Tuesday, resigning en masse, reportedly because they didn’t like the way she was treating them. They had served Sekula-Gibbs for about 24 hours.
Sekula-Gibbs said in a prepared statement today that seven employees in her Washington office and the district office in Stafford, “deleted records and files without my knowledge or permission” before quitting.
Spokeswoman Lisa Dimond told The Associated Press that the congresswoman had not yet gotten a response to her request for an investigation by the House’s chief administrative officer.
Anybody else think the response will be “Due to a backlog of requests, there is currently a four-week waiting period to file for an investigation”?
Kevin Madden, a former DeLay spokesman who works for outgoing GOP Majority Leader John Boehner and was not among the seven, said the holdover staffers “felt like they were treated terribly.” He would not elaborate.
Sekula-Gibbs, who is serving out the last seven weeks of DeLay’s term, said the walkouts were “suspicious” in that the seven took the time to delete files before leaving without notice.
Dimond said other staffers discovered the work-related files were missing when they tried to access them.
The only way this story could be any funnier would be if there were a complaint that all the hyphen keys had been removed from the computers by the departing staff.
I can’t top any of this, but I can pile on. Here’s Muse, here’s Juanita, here’s Hal and Hal again, here’s Lone Star Times, here’s Elam, and last but not least, here’s the Chron. Enjoy.