Randi just made a great point ... Repukes giving back Abramoff $$$

[stop the bleeding]

Where is all of this "tainted money" going that the Repukes have receieved from Abramoff, that now they are giving away???

Any answers/takers?

[bryant69]

1. Does donating to Abramoff's defense count as a charitable donation?

Although, in fairness, hard to do that and pretend I don't know the guy at the same time.

Bryant
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[peanutbrittle]

2. I was thinking about this yesterday

when I heard on NPR that Bush was giving his to charity. I'm with Randi that it should be given back to the Indians. Some guy on NPR said it was standard procedure that it be given to charity in circumstances such as this.

[MsUnderstood]

3. I loved a point randy made yesterday

The republicans are more concerned that their party is right than their party is doing the right thing.

[KurtNYC]

4. Guardian Uk has a list

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5525715,00.html

Looks like token amounts being given while the spotlights glare.

[Beaverhausen]

5. there is a little info in this article

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060105/ap_on_go_co/abramoff_recipients_glance;_ylt=AtqRRxqI9XmwEHAJSb_AfAKyFz4D;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--

[screembloodymurder]

6. Attorney fees.

Their own.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

7. I doubt donating the money will help

The gist of bribery is that you are performing public action based on private consideration. Presumably the public action (i.e., votes and convincing other members to vote) occurred a long time ago. It's not like the individual dollar bills received are evil and must be expunged.

[Karmageddon]

8. Regardless of where you spend the bribe money, it's still bribe money.

[BR_Parkway]

9. I'll give you pretty good odds it won't go to Gulf Coast folks who

probably need the most right now. More of it will go into things like each other's PAC's and election campaigns.

[stop the bleeding]

10. People R saying the Charities, Some of A'moff's shady dealings R Charities

This is my point in the original post.

How do we know that the money that these people are giving back to the "Charities" isn't some other Shady deal?