Associated Press Writer, Pete Yost, apparently doesn’t want to see another Clinton administration:

Whitewater. The word symbolizes years of legal troubles for Hillary Rodham Clinton during her husband’s presidency. The scandal stoked a $52 million criminal investigation and offered moments of extraordinary spectacle, including the unprecedented grand jury appearance by a first lady.
[...]

Starr’s probe left a legacy of anger among congressional Democrats who saw Whitewater as an example of an out-of-control criminal investigation. Republicans, too, had endured a prolonged independent counsel investigation - Lawrence Walsh’s probe into the Iran-Contra scandal. Congress put its foot down, declaring there would be no more independent counsels. So lawmakers allowed the law that authorized court-appointed prosecutors to lapse.

By the end of 2006, their legal bills paid off, the former president and his presidency’seeking wife had assets of at least $10 million and possibly as much as $50 million with no liabilities.

Whitewater is old news, Mr. Yost. But if bringing up questionable conduct of someone’s past is your forte, might I suggest writing about someone from the republican side of the aisle? Here are some ideas for you:

Alabama

Sen. Richard Shelby
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Gov. Robert Riley

Recipient of contributions from Abramoff.
Received contributions from. DeLay’s
ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff

Alaska

Senate President Ben Stevens
(son of US Senate Pro Tem
President Ted Stevens)

Probed for accepting consulting fees from
oil services firm Veco. Subject to a recall petition.

Sen. Ted Stevens
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Arkansas

Arkansas Republican Party
Received contributions from. DeLay’s
ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff

Arizona

Rep. J. D. Hayworth
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Rick Renzi
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

California

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Ethics probe for accepting salary from
two men’s fitness magazines while governor,
possible kickback from American Media
publisher to Schwarzenegger charity and
silence money to a woman who had

an extramarital affair with Schwarzenegger.
This probe may go criminal.

Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham
Probed for bribery regarding financial ties
with and favors for defense firm MZM.
Pleaded guilty to tax evasion, conspiracy,
Nov. 28, 2005.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
Tied to Abramoff scandal on loan papers.
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Richard Pombo
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. John Doolittle
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff,
including Indian casino money

Rep. Ed Royce

Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Colorado

Colorado Republican Party

Received contributions from. DeLay’s
ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff

Connecticut

Gov. John Rowland
Convicted, imprisoned 2004

Rep. Rob Simmons

Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Delaware

Attorney General Jane Brady
Accused of helping MBNA Bank of
Wilmington skirt campaign finance laws.

DC, Wash

Jack Abramoff, GOP lobbyist
Indicted, wire fraud, conspiracy

Adam Kidan,

DC Dial-a-Mattress franchise in DC
and Abramoff associate

Michael Scanlon,
former chief of staff to Tom DeLay
Being probed for involvement in Indian
casino scandal with Abramoff, Kidan,
and DeLay.
Indicted Nov. 18, 2005 for conspiracy
to defraud Indian tribes. Pleaded

guilty Nov. 21

Steve Rosen, American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
Indicted for criminal conspiracy
involving classified national security
information

Keith Weismann, AIPAC
Indicted for criminal conspiracy
involving classified national

security information

Larry Franklin, Colonel, USAF
Reserves, Dept. of Defense
Indicted for criminal conspiracy
involving classified national
security information

Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President’s

Chief of Staff Probed for illegal disclosure
of CIA classified information. Indicted on
5 counts: Obstruction of justice, making
false statements and perjury

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove
Probed for illegal disclosure of CIA classified
information

David H. Safavian, Head of Procurement
Policy, Office of Management and Budget,

former Chief of Staff, General Service
Administration
Arrested by FBI for making false statements
about helping Jack Abramoff acquire two
Federal properties in DC and Maryland.

Kenneth Tomlinson
Ex-Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Chairman and current Broadcasting Board
of Governors member

Under investigation for violating the
Public Broadcasting Act

Patricia Harrison,
President Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Probed for violating Public Broadcasting Act

Vice President Dick Cheney
Investigated for criminal conspiracy
in divulging the identity of covert CIA agent

President George W. Bush

Probed in Abramoff scandal for accepting
bags of illegal campaign cash from Seminole
casino interests in Florida

J. Steven Griles,
former Interior Deputy Secretary
Probed for links to Abramoff

Florida

Rep. Katherine Harris, US Senate candidate
Probed for campaign donations from MZM, Inc.

(related to Duke Cunningham probe)

Rep. Tom Feeney
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff.
Probed for corporate ties to Yang Enterprises,
involved in over billing state of Florida.
Feeney was Jeb Bush’s 1994 running mate
for Lt. Gov.

Rep. Ric Keller
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

and Kidan.

Georgia

Ralph Reed, candidate for Lt. Gov.
Probed for involvement in Abramoff,
Kidan, DeLay Indian casino money
laundering.

Sen. John Isakson
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Sen. Saxby Chambliss

Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Phil Gingrey
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Jack Kingston
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Guam

Gov. Felix Camacho
Probed for ties to Abramoff and demoting
Acting US Attorney for Guam Frederick

Black

Hawaii

New Hawaii PAC and House GOP PAC
Campaign violations filed against a
number of GOP candidates for the state
legislature and US House for skirting
spending limits.

Dalton Tanonaka, former Lt.
gubernatorial and congressional candidate

Under FEC investigation for disguising and
failing to report campaign loans. Also
investigated for possible illegal foreign
funding from Hong Kong and Japan.

State Rep. and House Minority Leader Galen Fox
Convicted on federal charges of fondling a woman
on a Honolulu to Los Angeles commercial flight

Idaho

Rep. Michael Simpson

Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Butch Otter
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Illinois

House Speaker Dennis Hastert
Probed for accepting money from Turkey.

Rep. Jerry Weller
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff
(Weller is married to the daughter of

Guatemalan dictator and mass murderer
[300,0000 Guatemalans] Efrain Rios Montt).

Republican National Treasurer Bob Kjellander
Under Federal probe for steering investment
contracts to Illinois Teachers Retirement Fund.

Former House Leader State Rep. Lee Daniels (Elmhurst)
Under Federal investigation for misuse of state
employees for political activity and state
contract kickbacks

Indiana

Rep. Dan Burton
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Gov. Mitch Daniels
Under investigation for soliciting campaign
donations in return for INDOT (Indiana Dept.
of Transportation contracts)

Thomas Sharp, INDOT Commissioner
Under investigation for soliciting campaign

donations in return for INDOT (Indiana Dept.
of Transportation contracts)

Jim Kittle, GOP state chairman
Under investigation for soliciting campaign
donations in return for INDOT (Indiana Dept.
of Transportation contracts)

Rep. Chris Chocola
Received DeLay ARMPAC money.
FEC investigating

Iowa

Rep. Jim Ryun
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Sen. Sam Brownback
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Adam Taff
2004 congressional candidate (KS-3),
indicted for campaign violations and
wire fraud.

Kentucky

Gov. Ernie Fletcher
Criminal probe in a state employees-
merit system scandal. Received
contributions from. DeLay’s ARMPAC,
linked to Abramoff.

Transportation Commissioner Dan Druen
Merit system scandal, witness tampering.
Indicted.

Deputy Personnel Secretary Bob Wilson
Merit system scandal. Indicted

Darrell Brock, Chairman of Kentucky GOP
Merit system scandal. Indicted.

Gov. Personnel Adviser Basil Turbyfill
Merit system scandal. Indicted.

Transportation Secretary ill Nighbert
Merit system scandal. Indicted.

Dick Murgatroyd, Gov. Deputy Chief of Staff

Merit system scandal. Indicted.

Jim Adams, Deputy Transportation Secretary
Merit system scandal. Indicted.

Cory Meadows, Executive Director,
Transportation Dept.
Merit system scandal. Indicted.

Environmental Protection Commissioner
Lloyd Cress
Probed in merit system scandal

Sen. Jim Bunning
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Lt. Gov. Stephen Pence
Received contributions from. DeLay’s
ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff

Dave Disponett
Indicted for violation of Kentucky
civil service law

Louisiana

Sen. David Vitter
Linked to Abramoff in a case involving
a Louisiana Indian tribe.

Maine

Maine Republican Party
Received contributions from. DeLay’s
ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff

Maryland

Joseph Steffen, aide to Gov. Bob Ehrlich

Resigned for starting a rumor campaign
against Baltimore Mayor Martin O-Malley.

Gov. Bob Ehrlich
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Massachusetts

Gov. Mitt Romney’s Executive Office of
Environmental Affairs
Under ethics cloud for awarding a $10,000
contract to conservative Boston Herald

columnist to write columns supportive of
Romney’s policies.

Lawrence Novak, Vice Chair, state GOP
Arrested by FBI for drug money laundering

Michigan

Rep. Dave Camp
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Attorney General Mike Cox
Failed to pursue felony pollution charges

against Graceland Fruit after a major
Department of Environmental Quality
investigation.

Rep. Candice Miller
Investigated by House Erthics Committee
for accepting campaign contributions in
return for her yes vote on the 2004
Medicare bill.

Minnesota

Rep. Gil Gutknecht
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Missouri

Sen. Christopher Bond
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Sen. Jim Talent
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Gov. Matt Blunt, son of Roy Blunt
Received contributions from. DeLay’s

ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff

Rep. Roy Blunt, House Majority Leader
Investigated for trading illegal PAC money
with DeLay through Blunt’s Rely on Your
Beliefs Fund. Received Indian casino money
from tribes represented by Abramoff.

Mississippi

Rep. Charles Pickering

Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Roger Wicker
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Sen. Thad Cochran
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Sen. Trent Lott
Received funds from casino Indian
tribes represented by Abramoff

Montana

Sen. Conrad Burns
Probed for links to Abramoff

Rep. Dennis Rehberg
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Nebraska

Former Rep. Jon Christensen
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry
Received tainted money from DeLay.

Refused to return it

Nevada

Sen. John Ensign
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Jon Porter
Received $25,000 from DeLay’s ARMPAC

New Hampshire

Sen. John Sununu

Probed for receipt of money from
DeLay tainted PAC

Rep. Jeb Bradley
Probed for receipt of money from
DeLay tainted PAC

House Speaker Gene Chandler
Campaign contributions violations

James Tobin, Northeast political director
National Republican Senatorial Campaign

Committee
Indicted, conspiracy, GOTV phone line
jamming, Sununu 2002 campaign

Chuck McGee, former Exec. Dir. New
Hampshire Republican Party
Pleaded guilty, conspiracy, GOTV phone
line jamming, Sununu 2002 campaign

Allen Raymond, GOP Marketplace President
Pleaded guilty to conspiracy, GOTV phone

line jamming, Sununu 2002 campaign

New Jersey

GOP State Chairman Tom Wilson
Probed for his firm receiving $2.7 million
from the Burlington County Bridge
Commission

Rep. Jim Saxton
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Frank LoBiondo

Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Mike Ferguson
Probed for his firm receiving $2.7 million
from the Burlington County Bridge
Commission
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff,
may have illegally “wheeled” money from

DeLay through his “MIKEPAC” to GOP
candidates in Texas and other states

New Mexico

Rep. Heather Wilson
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

New York

Westchester County District Attorney

Jeanine Pirro and US Senate candidate
Probed for campaign donations from
mobsters. Her husband served a year
in prison for tax evasion.

Northern Marianas

Gov. Froilan Tenorio
Grand Jury probe, ties to Abramoff

North Carolina

Rep. Charles Taylor

Probed for ownership of shady Russian
bank - whose other major investor is a
former KGB general. Recipient of
contributions from Abramoff

Hayes Martin, Taylor Campaign Treasurer
Indicted, fraud and money laundering

Rep. Walter Jones
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

North Dakota

Richard Clayburgh, House candidate
Received contributions from. DeLay’s
ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff

Ohio

Gov. Bob Taft,
Misuse of state funds/ethics violations
Convicted, four first degree misdemeanors,
pleaded no contest (admission of guilt).
$4000 fine and public apology, two Federal

Grand Juries, one state Grand Jury still
investigating Taft.

Thomas Noe, Bush-Cheney 04 campaign
chair, NW Ohio; Turnpike Commissioner;
University Regent
Misuse of state funds for rare coin fund.
Indicted by Federal grand jury, arrested
in Florida.

Bernadette Noe, Thomas Noe’s wife; chair

Lucas County GOP; chair Lucas Co. Board
of Elections
Misuse of state funds

Brian Hicks, Taft chief of staff, member
Ohio University Board of Trustees
Convicted

Cherie Carroll, Taft Chief of Staff
Executive Secretary
Convicted

Rep. Bob Ney
Being probed for involvement with
Abramoff, Kidan, and DeLay, Indian
casino money laundering. Recipient
of contributions from Abramoff and
Kidan. Indictment may be imminent.

Rep. Jean Schmidt
Probe of financial ties to Games, Inc.,
and proposal to put Ohio State Lottery

on the Internet. Received contributions
from. DeLay’s ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff

Rep. Ralph Regula
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Douglas Moormann, Gov. Taft’s Executive
Assistant for Business and Industry
Under criminal investigation for accepting
loan from Noe

Oklahoma

Rep. Ernest Istook
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Sen. James Inhofe
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Sen. Tom Coburn
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Oregon

Sen. Gordon Smith

Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

State Rep. Dan Doyle
Misused campaign funds. Convicted.

Pennsylvania

Rep. Don Sherwood
Investigated by DC police for assaulting
and choking a 29-year old Maryland woman

Rep. Curt Weldon
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Sen. Arlen Specter
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick
Recipient of money from DeLay’s ARMPAC
(subject of Federal indictments), money
laundered from Abramoff sources.

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican New Progressive Party

(GOP affiliate party)
Paid Abramoff $400,000 for lobbying
for 1998 statehood referendum

Rhode Island

Former House candidate (2002) Mike Battles
Firm, Custer Battles, disbarred from Iraq
contracts after allegations of over charging
and money laundering

Providence Mayor Vince Cianci

Imprisoned in 2002 for 5 years.

South Carolina

Rep. Joe Wilson
Received contributions from. DeLay’s
ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff

Rep. Gresham Barrett
Received contributions from. DeLay’s
ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff

Rep. Henry Brown

Received contributions from. DeLay’s
ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff

South Dakota

Sen. John Thune
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Bill Janklow
Guilty, second degree manslaughter,
imprisoned. Recipient of contributions
from Abramoff

Tennessee

Rep. Van Hilleary
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Sen. Bill Frist
Under Securities and Exchange Commission
investigation for insider trading on his
Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)
stock

Texas

Rep. Tom DeLay, House Majority Leader
Probed for campaign finance fraud, ties
to Abramoff/Kidan, Saipan sweat shops.
Grand Jury, Travis County prosecutor,
and House Ethics Committee probing DeLay.
Indicted by Travis County District Attorney
for 1 count of criminal conspiracy and 2
counts of money laundering. Arrested and
booked at Harris County jail October 20,

2005. Recipient of contributions from
Abramoff. Conspiracy to commit money
laundering and money laundering charges
still stand after Texas Judge dropped the
one count of criminal conspiracy on
December 5, 2005.

Jim Ellis, Director Americans for a
Republican Majority (ARMPAC) PAC tied
to DeLay and Abramoff

Indicted

John Colyandro, Texans for a Republican
Majority (TRMPAC), DeLay associate
Indicted

Warren RoBold, Lobbyist and DeLay associate
Indicted

House Speaker Tom Craddick
Probed for campaign violations
involving TRMPAC and DeLay

Sam Walls, candidate for Texas House
Photos of him wearing women’s clothes
surfaced in the 2004 runoff campaign

State Rep. Todd Baxter
Investigated for receiving ARMPAC and
TRMPAC money from Republican National
Committee. To resign from office on
Nov. 1, 2005

Rep. Kevin Brady

Recipient of $10,000 from ARMPAC in
2003. Arrested for DWI in South Dakota

Probed for receiving money from casino
Indian tribes represented by Abramoff

Utah

Rep. Chris Cannon
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Vermont

Gov. Jim Douglas

Opposition to universal health care in
Vermont tied to huge contributions from
insurance industry.

Virginia

Rep. Virgil Goode
Probed for contributions from MZM, Inc.
(related to Duke Cunningham probe)

Jerry Kilgore, gubernatorial candidate
Received $5000 from MZM, Inc.

Rep. Eric Cantor
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Randy Forbes
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Sen. George Allen
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Tom Davis
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff
and Kidan.

Washington

Rep. George Nethercutt
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Doc Hastings
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Spokane Mayor Jim West
Under Federal and state investigation for
abusing his office to obtain sexual favors
and soliciting sex over the Internet from

underage males.

West Virginia

Rep. Shelly Moore Capito
Received contributions from. DeLay’s
ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff

Wisconsin

Rep. Paul Ryan
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Mark Green

Recipient of funds from DeLay’s ARMPAC

Wyoming

Sen. Mike Enzi
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff

Rep. Barbara Cubin
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff