For a quirky reason, Fullerton Congressman Ed Royce has a chance to leapfrog over more senior Republicans to become chairman of the powerful House financial services committee, according to a new article in Mother Jones magazine.
Royce and Spencer Bachus, an Alabama Republican with more seniority, are both vying for the top spot, but the magazine's Andy Kroll reports that Royce has won favor in conservative circles because of his feisty, confrontational demeanor with Rep. Barney Frank, the leading House Democrat on financial matters.
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“While Bachus struggled as ranking member to match Barney Frank's blistering rhetoric, Royce showed no hesitation to lock horns with the Massachusetts Democrat,” Kroll wrote. “Royce's willingness to trade barbs is likely one of the main reasons his challenge to Bachus' seat has made headway at all.”
Both Bachus and Royce–who is physically petite with a surprisingly booming voice–not only oppose new financial reform laws enacted after the Wall Street meltdown, but are openly advocating that the Republican-controlled House should withhold funds from agencies required to enforce them.
The last Orange County Republican with power over the nation's markets was Christopher Cox, who
we first observed would be a disaster as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He was. You should know that Royce comes from the Cox School of Economic Disasters.
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–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.