My File on Grover Norquist

[ck4829]

This comes straight from my group, Anti-CNP

Connections to a Terrorist - Norquist has served as an economic adviser to Angola UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi and was once registered with the United States Department of Justice as a foreign agent of Angola.
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fara/fara2nd97/COUNTRY/ANGOLA.HTM#5061

Money laundering - Norquist has also been accused of using his various organizations to launder political money for a number of like-minded individuals and groups. See, for example, the scandal involving Oregon's Bill Sizemore, whose political organizations were shut down by a judge after a jury agreed they had engaged in racketeering, in part due to evidence of a money-laundering scheme involving Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Sizemore
http://www.nwlaborpress.org/2002/10-4-02Sizemore.html

Involvement in the Abramoff-Reed Indian Gambling Scandal - Norquist is a central figure in the scandal arising from lobbying work performed by Jack Abramoff and Ralph Reed on behalf of Indian gambling tribes. Emails released by federal investigators in June 2005 suggest that Norquist facilitated a scheme in which Reed secretly accepted payments from Abramoff to lobby against Indian casino gambling while Abramoff was being paid to promote Indian casino gambling.

Does he know something about the corruption of the Ohio GOP? - During the 2004 election, an audiotape was released of Norquist criticizing Ohio governor Bob Taft at a private gathering of Republicans Abroad. He called Taft "an idiot, stupid, corrupt, dumb rotten Republican Governor ... who has been busy looting the state, raising taxes, lying to the gun owners," and considered him to be a serious liability for the Bush campaign as no Republican has ever won a presidential election without carrying Ohio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist

[salin]

1. Don't have the link - but back in 1998 or 1999 Norquist

formed an organization with several conservative Muslim leaders to encourage Islamic voters to vote GOP. One or two of the primary figures in that organization has been linked to funding terrorism. I think the organization they founded was raided and records taken back in the early post 9-11 investigations into the funding of terrorist networks.

[pnorman]

2. Thanks for all that good info.

BTW: I just signed onto your Anti-CNP Group. I haven't looked it over yet, but if the above is a fair sample, I'm IN.

pnorman

[ck4829]

3. You can find all this and more in the Files section.

Thanks for joining BTW.

[JNelson6563]

4. Great stuff!

Bookmarked. Reminds me of the days before GD became a sort of lounge for increasing number of people.

Thanks! :toast:

Julie