From USA Today last May: "[Abramoff] had close contact with Bush team"

[tuvor]

Found via BuzzFlash:

Controversial lobbyist had close contact with Bush team
WASHINGTON (AP) — In President Bush's first 10 months, GOP fundraiser Jack Abramoff and his lobbying team logged nearly 200 contacts with the new administration as they pressed for friendly hires at federal agencies and sought to keep the Northern Mariana Islands exempt from the minimum wage and other laws, records show.

The meetings between Abramoff's lobbying team and the administration ranged from Attorney General John Ashcroft to policy advisers in Vice President Dick Cheney's office, according to his lobbying firm billing records.

Abramoff, a $100,000-plus fundraiser for Bush, is now under criminal investigation for some of his lobbying work. His firm boasted its lobbying team helped revise a section of the Republican Party's 2000 platform to make it favorable to its island client.

In addition, two of Abramoff's lobbying colleagues on the Marianas won political appointments inside federal agencies.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-06-abramoff-bush_x.htm

[LarryWilson]

1. Like, anyone should be surprised??

Bush is as crooked as they come. A petty, mean-spirited, jaw-tic'd shell of a human. It's like someone gutted a real (ugly) human and put a 'droid inside, but one that was sinister and had very little knowledge of how real humans act. heh-heh. Gad! I HATE it when he does that!

The revolution is not a question of IF.

Want to see what else he (and, unfortunately, Clinton) have been hiding from us?

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/21/17380/5477

It will scare the pants off of you - if you wear pants.

At the bottom is Reagan's legacy of passing requlations that empower the president to suspend the Constitution and imprison Americans.

Also, links to an ACLU paper on how Bush is now classing protesters - just regular ones, not ELF or Earth First! people only - as terrorists, and links to newspaper articles about Rex84, the FEMA internment camps that Bush has set up. These are major news sources, like the AP and Sydney Morning Herald and the Miami Herald.