Committee led by Dole to keep Abramoff cash

[Judi Lynn]

Saturday, January 7, 2006
Committee led by Dole to keep Abramoff cash

By Mary M. Shaffrey
JOURNAL WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON

The National Republican Senatorial Committee, headed by Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., said yesterday that it was not planning to return any of the more than $400,000 that it has received from former clients of lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

"Those donations are legal. We feel it wouldn't be appropriate to return them," said spokesman Brian Nick. "We're a political committee. We don't affect legislation."

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan organization that tracks the role of money in politics, Dole's committee has received $436,500 over the last six years, from various Indian tribes that Abramoff once represented.

Included in this figure are $50,000 worth of donations from two separate Indian tribes since Dole took over as chairwoman of the committee early last year.
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[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. "We're a political committee. We don't affect legislation." WTF???

They must be pretty inefficent.

[CRK7376]

2. Geee Thanks Liddy!!!!

My state gets rid of Jesse Helms only to be saddled by the likes of you and your buddy Abramoff's money. Polictical committee without influence my butt......

[Hutchewon]

3. Extremely sad.....

I love the way the Repukes attacked Hillary for moving to NY to run for the Senate, but thought it was ok fine for Dole to pull the same con. I had to sit on the speaker's platform and listen to one of Dole's vapid speeches when she was running. During the speech I kept thinking that it was a shame that the word "carpetbagger" had gone out of fashion in NC.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

4. give back the cash? why? to use fot OTHER bribes? Lobbying=Bribery=corrupt

this is the most corrupt government in the history of our nation--

and just what are we going to do about it ?

[librechik]

5. oh, the Dems claim their contributions were legal? So were ours!

muddying the waters for the Grand Old (Nazi) Party