Money Trail: What Hurricane? Lobbyists, GOP Party On

[Divine Discontent]

Source: ABC NEWS

Brian Ross investigative reporting -

Many corporate sponsors and their lobbyists carried through with plans for lavish entertainment of GOP lawmakers and others despite calls from the campaign of Sen. John McCain that Republicans should tone down the convention festivities.

"We will be contacting corporations and others to ask them to be respectful of events in the gulf," McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said Sunday afternoon.

Yet, last night lobbyists for the National Rifle Association, Lockheed Martin and the American Trucking Association put on a raucus six-hour party at a downtown bar featuring music by the band "Hookers and Blow." There was no evidence of any actual prostitutes or cocaine.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Conventions/story?id=5699123&page=1

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See more at link. shocking, really - McCain clearly did this, now as we can argue, just for political theater to act like they were concerned for the people of the LA. area, but Ross' report (that aired on World News) showed them partying it up last night and RNCers arguing at him, denying there was anything wrong with partying hard, and hiding their faces.

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[KoKo]

1. CNN's Anderson Cooper declared Gustav..just a minor thing where Fema and Corps of Engineers

succeeded in their goals. No damages...one death...but he did at least say that we might find it all looks differently tomorrow. I think it will take some days before the Blogs get the TRUTH of it.

We will see....how it all works out. They told us the night after Katrina hit that "all is well" then we saw the aftermath for weeks afterward.

[joanski0]

2. Those Republicans sure love their parties,

especially during hurricanes.