Bush LIED about NOT meeting Abramoff- and here's proof:

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Fri Jan-06-06 03:55 PM
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Bush LIED about NOT meeting Abramoff- and here's proof:

Edited on Fri Jan-06-06 03:56 PM by npincus

http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle_new.asp?ArticleID=13

Bush is on record denying that he has met with Abramoff, or has ever had any personal relationship. Well, well. On May 9, 2001, Abramoff escorted Chief Poncho of the Coushetta Indian Tribe to the White House for a meeting with President Bush, for which he charged the Coushetta $25,000. Abramoff attended the maeeting, which lasted 15 minutes. How's that for a nexus of dirty money, Bush and Abramoff?

As if we didn't know, B*sh is a LIAR and someone in the MSM had better get on this one.

Chairman Poncho's $25,000 Ticket to Personal Meeting with Bush and escort, Abramoff

Abramoff brought the Coushatta and Choctaw chiefs to Washington at the request of Grover Norquist. Norquist is founder and director of Americans for Tax Reform, the advocacy group committed to slashing taxes until the federal government is so small you “can drown it in the bathtub.” Norquist started ATR in 1985. His power increased exponentially in 1994, when Republicans took control of the House of Representatives and he collaborated with then-Majority Whip Tom DeLay to launch the “K Street Project”—a coordinated campaign to compel lobbyists to contribute only to Republican candidates and ultimately to hire only Republicans. Like Abramoff and Rove, Norquist considered George Bush’s victory over Al Gore the culmination of a project the three Washington insiders started 30 years ago as national leaders of the College Republicans.

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The Coushattas, a southwest Louisiana tribe of 837 members, operate a casino that does an estimated $300 million in annual business. The $32 million they paid Abramoff and Scanlon makes the tribe the largest victim of the fraud their lawyers now allege in a lawsuit filed by Texas plaintiff’s firm Provost Umphrey. The tribe also contributed what tribal council member David Sickey said was probably “many millions” of dollars to political causes and charities designated by Abramoff.

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According to a source close to the tribal majority, Chairman Poncho recently “revisited that issue” of his visit to the White House. He had previously denied it because he thought he was responding to press inquiries that implied he had a one-on-one meeting with Bush. He now recalls that he in fact did go to the White House on May 9, 2001. Tribal attorney Kathryn Fowler Van Hoof went with him, although she did not get into the meeting with the President. That meeting lasted for about 15 minutes and was not a one-on-one meeting. At the meeting, Bush made some general comments about Indian policy but did not discuss Indian gaming. Abramoff was at the meeting—for which he charged the Coushatta Tribe $25,000. The change in Poncho’s position is odd in light of the fact that he and his spokespersons have maintained for more than a year that he did not meet with President Bush in May 2001.