Sunday, January 22, 2006
Bloomberg does their homework
Bloomberg has a story up detailing the money given by Jack Abramoff and his tribal clients (victims). What makes this article unusual for the MSM is that they did the research of publicly available records, crunched the numbers and put paid to the lie that Casino Jack was, as Our Dear Embattled Leader said, "an equal money dispenser".
Between 2001 and 2004, Abramoff gave more than $127,000 to Republican candidates and committees and nothing to Democrats, federal records show. At the same time, his Indian clients were the only ones among the top 10 tribal donors in the U.S. to donate more money to Republicans than Democrats.It is good to see the truth exposed to the light of day. Still, what is often missed in all the noise about contributions is the bribery and money laundering that enabled it. That story will come out someday. Until then read the whole story.
Bush's comment about Abramoff in a Dec. 14 Fox News interview was aimed at countering Democratic accusations that Republicans have brought a ``culture of corruption'' to Washington. Even so, the numbers show that ``Abramoff's big connections were with the Republicans,'' said Larry Noble, the former top lawyer for the Federal Election Commission, who directs the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics.
``It is somewhat unusual in that most lobbyists try to work with both Republicans and Democrats, but we're already seeing that Jack Abramoff doesn't seem to be a usual lobbyist,'' Noble said.
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