Abramoff got GOV Bush to write a letter re school choice in 1997

[SoCalDem]

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

snip

The records from Abramoff's firm, obtained by The Associated Press from the Marianas under an open records request, chronicle Abramoff's careful cultivation of relations with Bush's political team as far back as 1997.

In that year, Abramoff charged the Marianas for getting then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush to write a letter expressing support for the Pacific territory's school choice proposal, his billing records show.

"I hope you will keep my office informed on the progress of this initiative," Bush wrote in a July 18, 1997, letter praising the islands' school plan and copying in an Abramoff deputy.]

White House spokeswoman Erin Healy said Thursday that Bush didn't consider Abramoff a friend. "They may have met on occasion, but the president does not know him," she said.

As for the number of Abramoff lobbying team contacts with Bush officials documented in the billing records, Healy said: "We do not know how he defines 'contacts.

snip

[elehhhhna]

1. Weird. Bush doesn't know Ken Lay either.

[SoCalDem]

4. Wouldn't it be fabulous if people you didn't know started sending you $$?

I would love it, :)

[PurpleChez]

21. You know, that kind of shit happens to me every day.

Looking good, Louis.

Feeling good, Billy Ray.

[SoCalDem]

22. Louis? Billy Ray??

:shrug:

[PurpleChez]

23. Sorry...it's an entirely gratuitous reference to the film "Trading Places"

which is the source of the "this kind of shit..." quote. At least it wasn't a Monty Python quote. Ni! Ni!

[Auntie Bush]

2. He also said Kenny Boy wasn't a friend. If those two are his friends

then the poor guy :cry: ain't got no friends.

[SoCalDem]

7. It would not surprise me if KennyBoy & Jack did some deals too

This is a very incestuous group.Enron was very "into" water, and the lobbying group with Abramoff had some water clients..


Hah!!! Just googled and lookee what came up

Center for Corporate Policy
The deputy AG is responsible for coordinating the corporate fraud task force
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Mr. Abramoff and his team have racked up win after win for these islands. (Saipan
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[mom cat]

10. This deserves a separate post!...Wow.

[mom cat]

11. This one is great. Deputy AG nominee had hired Abramoff!

Another corporate crony bites the dust. Former Tyco attorney Timothy Flanigan, nominated to replace Larry Thompson as deputy attorney general, withdrew himself from consideration after questions concerning his association with indicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff were raised. The deputy AG is responsible for coordinating the corporate fraud task force established after Enron. While Flanigan was at Tyco, he hired Abramoff to keep open a Bermuda tax haven loophole that saved Tyco millions of dollars a year in taxes. (Tyco reincorporated to Bermuda in 1997.) Tyco's lawyers told Newsweek that it has turned evidence over to the feds indicating that Abramoff defrauded the company when lobbying against legislation to bar federal contracts for corporate tax dodgers. Abramoff also helped a Bermuda-based Russian company organize a lobbying trip for Tom DeLay to London and Scotland. A recent Center for Corporate Policy investigation of "Benedict Arnold Corporations" reveals that Abramoff was just one of dozens of high-powered tax-traitor lobbyists who succeeded in blocking at least 44 bills that would have barred the corporate tax dodgers from federal contracts or closed the offshore tax haven loophole. To learn more about corporate tax traitors go HERE and HERE. http://www.corporatepolicy.org/

[SoCalDem]

12. Just more proof that if you make the stench HUGE, people have

a hard time knowing exactly where the smell is coming from. These guys are ALL hooked together like velcro.. Poppy Bush was a very busy little troll for the 8 years they hounded Clinton ..This stuff doesn't just "happen"

[mom cat]

13. Please work on a separate post. This stuff is gold!

[SoCalDem]

14. done

:)

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Maybe he means in the biblical sense?

Like he 'knows' Victor Ashe. I guess it all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is.

[SoCalDem]

8. or the meaning of the word "contract"?

They are all lying sacks of shit:(

[Sydnie]

5. and Cheney said he had never meet Edwards before the debate

either. Don't believe that they didn't know each other. That much power finds those that have equal power. Abramoff was part of his "base" for sure!

[SoCalDem]

6. Is it even safe to have people in power with such poor memories?

:evilgrin:

[eridani]

9. "We don't know how he defines 'contacts'"

I guess it just depends on what "is" is, doesn't it?

[SoCalDem]

15. He had his fingers crossed while he signed the "contract"

:)

[PurpleChez]

16. The heading of this thread -- with "GOV" in all caps, reminded me

of Mel Brooks as Gov. LaPetomaine in Blazing Saddles. I'd say both governers are at about the same intellectual level. But remember, Affairs of state must take precedence over affairs of state.

[SoCalDem]

18. PRES bush's people are saying he never met Abramoff..but GOV bush sure did

and if WE can google up this stuff, jus HOW lazy are the media..? They just accept it and ask a different question :grr:

[donkeyotay]

17. Hah hah! Respectable media scooped by the internets again

I think that spokeswoman misspoke. She meant to say, "They may have met BRIEFLY, but Bush cannot recall."

Great find. Getting to the bottom of the Republican Crime Tsunami is going to be an undertaking akin to mapping the human genome.

Thanks, SoCalDem!
:hi:

[annabanana]

19. kicked in light of today's scottie roast...n/t

[SoCalDem]

20. Menem, Bush (2 of em) & Abramoff have connections too

and when Poppy was pres he sent George W to meet with Menem in SA for water projects.. guess who dealt with Menem too??

ABRAMOFF ..tHIS IS pre GOVERNOR DAYS IN tEXAS.. AND gw SAYS HE DOESN;T "KNOW" aBRAMAOFF??

SURE...

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