Trey Gowdy Just Wants PACs to Stop Raising Money Off His Benghazi Investigation
Representative Trey Gowdy, a Republican from South Carolina, left, objects to Lois Lerner's, the director of the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) exempt organizations office, unseen, refusal to answer questions, during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, May 22, 2013.
Photographer: Pete Marovich/BloombergIf there's any way for Representative Trey Gowdy to stop people from raising money in his name, he has not found it. In 2014, when pressed on a National Republican Congressional Committee blog post asking people (with money, presumably) to support his Select Committee on Benghazi, Gowdy pleaded for good taste.
"I cannot and will not raise money on Benghazi,” Gowdy said. “I also advise my colleagues to follow suit, and I think I did so in a pretty unambiguous way.”