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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (720588)1/4/2006 1:36:15 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Notice how they waited until after Abramoff pleaded guilty just in case they could keep the money! What an honest president we have!

Bush Campaign to Give Away Abramoff Donations

By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON Jan 4, 2006 — President Bush's re-election campaign will give the American Heart Association thousands of dollars in campaign contributions connected to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the White House said Wednesday, as the government pressed forward with a broad-ranging corruption investigation.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Wednesday that Abramoff, his wife and the tribal associates that he helped win influence on Capitol Hill donated thousands to the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. Donations to charities has been the policy in similar situations in the past, McClellan said.

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abcnews.go.com