The newest member of Congress, who is temporarily filling former Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s Texas seat, wants an investigation into the destruction of computer files in her office by staffers she inherited from DeLay.
Rep. Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, R-Texas, said the staffers resigned en masse and walked out Tuesday, a day after she was sworn in to fill DeLay’s seat for the next seven weeks. A Capitol Hill newspaper, Roll Call, reported the staffers did not like the way she was treating them.
Sekula-Gibbs said in a statement Thursday that seven employees in her Washington office and the district office in Stafford, Texas, outside Houston, "deleted records and files without my knowledge or permission" on the same day she was sworn in.
What an odd story.
Why on earth would these staffers wait until the day after the interim representative is sworn in to do some hasty house cleaning? Haven’t they had, like, months to scrub the files already?
Something about this story ain’t right.
House rules. And not unusual. Companies routinely scrub PCs when transferring them from one employee to another.
Now, SOX requires all data to be backed up. I wonder if Congress has to abide by the same rules they foist on us? I’m guessing not.