Hilly Boy's Deception (as in the Lovely Tennessee Rep. Matthew Hill)

Tim was put on leave and is no longer in the DC office pending the ethics committee investigation. My understanding is this is an unpaid leave.
 

Hmmmm. I can only hope he does not end up back on the radio.
 

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I recall radio talk show host Mark Bernier as stating that Timothy Hill was on a paid leave...Rep. Davis' office has not posted anything about the matter at his congresional web site:

daviddavis.house.gov/newsroom.shtml

Hill clearly broke two major rules (with the force of federal law) of the U.S. House Ethics Commission by his Wikipedia vandalism that is de fact political campaign activity for Rep. David Davis :

Highlights of theHouse Ethics Rules
www.house.gov/ethics/HighlightsMay2007.htm#_Toc169946664
Campaign Activities

[...]

* No campaign activities allowed in any congressional office or room (including district offices)

* No use of congressional office resources (including equipment, supplies, or files) for any campaign purpose

These two violations of the U.S. House Ethics Committee perhaps have more serious consequences for Davis' press secretary than do Hill being caught in a lie and thenlater confessing to a Knoxville News-Sentinal reporter that he was responsible for vandalizing both the separate Wikipedia articles about Matthew Hill and David Davis.

There are some other issues as play here as well (e.g. conduct unbecoming of a U.S. House of Representatives employee that places the U.S. House of Representatives in a bad light).

CODE OF ETHICS FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE Any person in Government service should:

1. Put loyalty to the highest moral principals and to country above loyalty to Government persons, party, or department.

3. Give a full day's labor for a full day's pay; giving to the performance of his duties his earnest effort and best thought.

If the U.S. House Ethics Committee does rule against Hill on utilizing the House congressional office s and computers in this Wikipedia matter, it has the potential of creating creating legal problems for Davis himself:

"In addition to congressional ethical standards and rulings, legal implications arise if salaries are claimed from public appropriations for individuals performing nonofficial, campaign services on behalf of a Member. As noted above, a Member may be held criminally liable for fraud against the Government for compensating individuals from public moneys for campaign services. (FOOTNOTE 76) In this connection, in 1979, a
former Member of the House of Representatives pleaded guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion for having placed on his congressional payroll 11 persons who were operating and staffing various reelection campaign headquarters. (FOOTNOTE 77)"

I do not think the U.S. House of Representatives should allow Rep. David Davis to be paying his press secretary to conduct political campaign for Davis within congressional offices and using federal computers and bandwidth --- this is a gross misuse and waste of U.S. taxpayers dollars!
 

I think it's also a civil rights violation. A federal employee censured accurate, protected, political speech. If Tim is too dumb to know what the First Amendment is then he surely should not be a Press Secretary. Did ya'll catch how Matthew didn't see the "big deal" was. Really he should think before he opens his big mouth.