Hey, tonto--let's call a spade a spade, OK?
>>>Abramoff's `Equal Money' Went Mostly to Republicans (Update1)
Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President George W. Bush calls indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff ``an equal money dispenser'' who helped politicians of both parties. Campaign donation records show Republicans were a lot more equal than Democrats.
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.<<<
bloomberg.com
The clear fact of reality is that Democrats traditionally embraced Native American causes and traditionally thus led Republications in donations from tribal groups.
That is until the Abramoff rip-off club--replete with the Bush's White House chief procurement officer, David Safavian; former House Majority Leader Tom Delay' communications spokesman, Michael Scanlon; and others--began using powerhouse inside connections to extort Indian tribes into becoming Abramoff clients.
Read more from the above-referenced Bloomberg reporting:
>>> Of the top 10 political donors among Indian tribes in that period, three are former clients of Abramoff and Scanlon: the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of California. All three gave most of their donations to Republicans -- by margins of 30 percentage points or more -- while the rest favored Democrats.<<<
>>> Abramoff's tribal clients continued to give money to Democrats even after he began representing them, although in smaller percentages than in the past.<<<
And here's exactly what you're doing, tonto--exactly what is reported by Bloomberg:
>>>``Republicans are bending over backwards to exaggerate the links'' between Democrats and Abramoff, said Phil Singer, a spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. ``This is a Republican scandal that involves Republican lawmakers doing favors for a Republican lobbyist.''<<<
So instead of chomping your bit while attempting to twist the truth, why not just accept the truth as it is. Good idea? You bet! |
