CREW files ethics complaint charges against Rep. Eric Cantor for taxpayer funded political org.

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23 Jul 2009 // Washington, D.C. - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has filed a complaint with the House Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) requesting an investigation into Rep. Eric Cantor’s recently created organization, the National Council for a New America (NCNA).

NCNA includes an informal member caucus made up of Republican members of Congress, and an associated advisory group consisting of current and former Republican governors and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). The group is operated by Rep. Cantor’s office, his staff organized the group and its initial town hall event and created its website, and his spokesman is listed as the group’s contact.

Rep. Cantor has asserted that NCNA’s purpose is to build and improve the Republican Party. Rep. David Dreier (R-CA) said the organization “will help those of us in Republican leadership positions build a Republican Party . . .” Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) described NCNA as “a caucus of Congressional leaders gathering the expertise of national leaders and doers in an effort to rebuild and rebrand the Republican Party.”

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