The phone call is coming. The problem with Congress is that when its members have been there too long, they start to think it’s their money. So disbursing scholarships to students who don’t happen to live in one’s district but do happen to be one’s grandchildren begins to seem perfectly normal.
Those Ethics Committee investigators will also find the documentation trail interesting in Eddie Bernice’s minority interest in the Love Field Hudson News concession. It is held by a “blind trust” in her name. These trusts are supposed to be administered by a third party for investments in the public market. The Hudson News concession is a private business. The Congresswoman just happens to sit on the Aviation Subcommittee. The document trail will show us just how blind that “blind trust” is — and how much she’s made off it over the years.Â
With the aid of some artful gerrymandering, Dallas’s Congressional seats have become permanent sinecures. Eddie Bernice has been there 17 years. That makes her a youngster compared to Joe Barton, who was first elected in 1984, when a good part of the electorate wasn’t even born. By comparison, Pete Sessions has only been there 13 years (although I’ll grant that it seems much, much longer). Term limits, anyone?
