The Annotated Weldon
Editor’s Note: As a courtesy to our readers, and because frankly, there’s no columnist at the Delaware County Times (or, in fairness, The Inquirer since Steve Lopez left town) with the cojones to do it, I’ve decided to translate from pol-spin to English the statement of U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon about the FBI’s investigation into his activities, focusing on influence peddling on behalf of his daughter and Delaware County, Pa., GOP power broker Charlie Sexton. It is, of course, just my opinion, but one would hope you’d find it both entertaining and enlightening. The text of the original statement is in black, my translation is in blue.
SPRINGFIELD, PA — Congressman Curt Weldon issued the following statement in response to media inquiries regarding a preliminary inquiry by the Justice Department:
"I have received confirmation that the Justice Department has opened apreliminary inquiry into items previously reported on by the LA Times in 2004.”
Obviously, I knew about the investigation because word had been filtering out for weeks about it looming — I was praying that it wouldn’t become public before Election Day.
“I look forward to providing law enforcement personnel with any and all documents and information that they may seek to review. I will cooperate 100 percent with the inquiry. I am confident that investigators will reach the same conclusions as the House Ethics Committee, which looked into these allegations in 2004 at my request, and found that I had engaged in no wrongdoing.”