[Rick Lee]

Melanie Sloan is a die-hard Dem and her outfit goes after Republicans almost exclusively. Anyway, Doolittle's wife didn't "skim" 15% off the top. She was paid that as a commission with no base salary and that's totally in line with what professional fundraisers make around here. She'll probably just move on to doing the same thing for some other Congressman and then all the spouse-fundraisers will just start working for non-spouses' campaigns and there will be no real change. The nepotism is a little hokey and the fact that Doolittle is still holding "debt retirement" fundraisers, all of which go to pay his wife, does not good. But Sloan is "skimming" over Feinstein's transgressions because her outfit doesn't want to ever harm Dems.