Smoky Mountain News on Shuler’s lack of TVA candor
WAYNESVILLE–The Smoky Mountain News wraps up coverage of 11th district rep. Heath Shuler’s misadventure with the Tennessee Valley Authority with this news story, from reporter Giles Morris and an editorial.
Morris’s lead for the news story:
While Congressman Heath Shuler, D-Waynesville, was cleared two weeks ago by the House Ethics Committee of any wrongdoing related to a Tennessee real estate deal, controversy erupted again a week later when the Tennessee Valley Authority released a report that showed he’d been lying to the media for months.
The lead from today’s editorial:
Now that it’s clear that Rep. Heath Shuler, D-Waynesville, did indeed mislead everyone about his involvement in a land deal that one of his companies negotiated with the Tennessee Valley Authority, constituents will be forced to make a character judgment that could stick for the rest of his political career.
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