Ney takes responsibility for his mistakes and criminal behavior. “I’m not bitter,” he told us Tuesday. “I’ve picked up the pieces. I have been treated better by members than I should have — I would have crossed the street to avoid me.”
He said he decided to write the book not to settle scores, but to help people understand what really goes on in Washington. There’s no love lost for former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: “I can’t stand him. How he looks in the mirror every day is beyond me.”
Ney’s still a Republican, not that fond of the “
Bushies,” saying his biggest regret is not the Abramoff scandal but voting for the Iraq war. Mostly, he wants to do something about Congress’s “drug of choice” — campaign funds.
Now sober and doing weekly radio commentaries, Ney said he’s finished with politics: “I think about it now and then — but I’m done. That’s an addiction in itself.”
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