David Rivera, who has been dogged by questions on ethics issues in his first month in as a member of Congress, doesn’t think House Republican leaders are distancing themselves from him. In fact, he claims in an interview which aired on “Naples Daily NewsMakers with Jeff Lytle” on Sunday that he’s “probably the most transparent member of Congress as of right now.”Lytle kept trying to nail Rivera down on the specific allegations against him. But pretty much through the entirety of the interview, Rivera avoided getting into details and instead told Lytle he intended to focus on cutting down on the national debt and creating jobs. Usually, it went something like this exchange:
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