Congressman's Staff Uses Public Office to Bolster Campaign of Illinois Dairy Magnate.

COLUMBUS - Congressman Steve Chabot's office was forced to apologize this weekend after The Hill newspaper discovered that they had violated House rules barring the conduct of partisan political activities out of a public office.

Chabot's office circulated an email on Friday from the National Republican Congressional Committee recruiting phone bankers for Illinois congressional candidate and dairy magnate Jim Oberweis in Saturday's special election. "If you have interns sitting around today, please send them over to the RNC...to phone bank for Oberweis," the note read. Read more: