VA AG-elect McDonnell tied to Abramoff

[AlecBGreen]

Good Lawd, is there anybody in the Republican party who didnt take money from this asshole?

Consultants for Va. Candidate Linked to Indicted Lobbyist

By James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 3, 2005; Page B04

Two key campaign consultants for Virginia attorney general candidate Robert F. McDonnell established a nonprofit group five years ago that its director now says was used almost exclusively to secretly fund political efforts -- including one organized by indicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

McDonnell, a lawyer and state delegate from Virginia Beach, provided legal advice and his law firm did work for the nonprofit group, according to its former executive director, Robin Vanderwall. Vanderwall said he does not know whether McDonnell knew of the group's activities but said everything he did was at the direction of McDonnell's current political strategists.

Vanderwall also has ties to McDonnell: He ran the Republican's 1999 campaign for the General Assembly. Vanderwall is now serving a seven-year prison term after he was convicted of soliciting sex from a minor on the Internet. In telephone interviews and correspondence from state prison, Vanderwall said the nonprofit group, Faith and Family Alliance, was used as a pass-through to fund Abramoff's campaign against an Internet gambling ban and to attack U.S. House candidate Eric I. Cantor in his 2000 primary race.

[ingac70]

1. I hope he takes down the whole lot of them!

Did you happen to catch how this whole thing started?

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/How_Jack_Abramoff_and_Michael_Scanlon_0103.html

I've been giggling all day! :evilgrin:

[AlecBGreen]

2. haha yeah

what a hoot! "Hell hath no fury..."

[mikeytherat]

9. Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd

Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.

mikey_the_rat

[KC21304]

4. I wonder if she realized she would probably be taking

DeLay down too ? Of course he may already be going down on his own but I think his dealings with Abramoff will guarantee it.

[ingac70]

5. I don't know if she realized the scope of this....

She was apparently a good little NAZI in DeLay's PR dept., and looked like a total bitch when she tried to cut off the MTP Powell interview.

[mom cat]

3. I love it when "family values" and graft come together.

[spooky3]

6. The date on the article is Nov. 5--is there any update?

[NVMojo]

7. damn, there really are no "morals and values" Repukes afterall ...

[No Exit]

8. Wait a minute. He established the group, but it's not certain he "knew

of the group's activities"?
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[OneTwentyoNine]

10. Kansas Senator Sam Brownback,soon to run for President got 42K...

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/nation/13544805.htm

"Last month, Sen. Sam Brownback's office announced that the Kansas Republican is giving away $42,000 in campaign donations connected to Abramoff, a move that several other lawmakers have taken recently to avoid the appearance of undue influence. Brownback's now-defunct Restore America Political Action Committee received the $42,000 in 2002 from four American Indian tribes represented by Abramoff, according to Federal Election Commission records."

Most likely a topic of discussion when Brownback starts his campaign.....