As the Greensboro News & Record points out, North Carolina U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield of the 1st Congressional District cast the lone dissenting vote in the House Ethics Committee’s decision to censure Charlie Rangel.
Butterfield was criticized for accepting campaign donations from Rangel in 2004 and 2008, and yet declining to recuse himself from the vote on Rangel’s censure.
As Carolina Journal has reported in the past, Butterfield has faced ethics scrutiny of his own for foreign travel on the taxpayers’ dime, some of it in Copenhagen for climate change talks.
