Papers Link GOP Lawmaker, Abramoff Clients

[G_j]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5579321,00.html

Papers Link GOP Lawmaker, Abramoff Clients

Sunday January 29, 2006 5:31 PM


By ERICA WERNER

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - A California congressman who accepted campaign cash from disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and used his sports box for a fundraiser interceded on behalf of two American Indian tribes that were represented by Abramoff's firm, documents show.

GOP Rep. John Doolittle wrote Interior Secretary Gale Norton in June 2003 criticizing the Bush administration's response to a tribal government dispute involving the Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa. In October 2003, Doolittle appealed in a letter to the secretary for quicker action for a Massachusetts tribe, the Mashpee Wampanoag, that was seeking federal recognition.

Both tribes signed on with Abramoff's lobbying firm, Greenberg Traurig, that year. Sac & Fox hired the firm in May, the Wampanoags in November. Neither tribe appears tied to Doolittle's rural Northern California district, and Doolittle is not on the House committee that handles Indian issues.

The letters were obtained by The Associated Press under a Freedom of Information Act request.

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[KingFlorez]

1. Sounds suspicious to me

Doolittle had no real reason to write the letters, so it's obvious he had some motive to do so

[roseBudd]

2. Clicked through to register a page view, we must reward the media

that actually reports even if it is UK.

[lovuian]

3. Oh What a tangled web Jack wove

Everything is connected
There are no coincidences...

[RSchewe]

4. You just gotta love the relentlessness of the spin and denial...

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall January 29, 2006 01:47 PM

According to his hometown paper, the Auburn Journal, Rep. Doolittle (R-CA) is reaching out to his inner circle of funders to raise $100,000 in January to fend off what he's describing as a concerted attack by Democrats -- presumably run through the Bush Justice Department -- to drive him from office.

Says Doolittle in his money appeal: "Make no mistake about it. The liberal media wants the Democrats back in control of Congress. They don't like conservatives. They don't like President Bush, and they don't like what we stand for. They will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal."

Doolittle's plea comes amidst new disclosures tying him to the Duke Cunningham influence-peddling and bribery scandal.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007559.php

[G_j]

6. attack by Democrats -- presumably run through the Bush Justice Department

uh huh...

[AlCzervik]

5. Doolittle was on a local wingnuts talk show proclaiming his

innocence, the local news was good enough to highlight the fact that Doolittle and the talkshow host are "Good friends"

[PhilipShore]

7. FOX News/AP: Rep. Doolittle Aided Abramoff Clients, Received Campaign Cash

FOX News
AP
January 29, 2006

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183123,00.html

WASHINGTON — A California congressman who accepted campaign cash from disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and used his sports box for a fundraiser interceded on behalf of two American Indian tribes that were represented by Abramoff's firm, documents show.

[President Jesus]

8. complete list of contributors to Doolittle's campaigns

http://www.newsmeat.com/campaign_contributions_to_politicians/donor_list.php?candidate_id=H0CA14042

gotta love that name...Doolittle

[sabra]

9. kick

:kick:

[yellowcanine]

10. "But of course it is a bipartisan scandal, yes it is, yes it is. Of

course it is.":sarcasm: