Painter is Richard Painter, the Bush administration’s chief White House ethics officer. Yes, that’s right. The chief White House ethics officer under George W. Bush says it’s “time to move on.”
Earlier this week, Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics officer under George W. Bush, argued that it didn’t look like there all that was much to the Joe Sestak story. Even if there had been some kind of “job” offer, Painter said, this constituted “nothing new.”
Now that the White House has released its version of events, Painter is even more adamant. He just told me in an interview that it’s time for Republicans to “move on.”
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