The motion passed 6-1, with just the chairman, Rep. Tom Loertscher, voting against it. "You know, as legislators we all have something in our past," said Loertscher, R-Iona. He said he doesn't feel that the "constitutional rights to exhaust our remedies ends the day we take office, or the day we run for office." He added, "As it pertains to the timber sales, this certainly happened before his involvement in the Legislature, and I would hate to have an ethics investigation into my own personal background prior to my being a legislator. I'm not here to tell you that there's anything you would find, but there might be something that someone would have a perception about." With the motion approved, the Ethics Committee will convene again once the legislative session begins, at the call of the chair.