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Friday, May 06, 2005

What does Jack Abramoff know about Recount 2000?
Posted by Jill | 2:35 PM

Someday it's all going to come out. Someday, long after we're all dead, someone will unearth all the smoking guns, and it will be shown that the Bushistas stole election 2000, that they allowed the 9/11 attacks to play out so that they could go to war with Iraq, that said war was based on lies, and that the Bush Administration -- and most of their henchmen -- were the most corrupt group of political officials ever to besmirch this country.

I intend to be a pampered house cat by then, so I suspect it won't matter to me.

But even in today's "hear-no-evil" media environment, some maggots are already crawling out from under the decaying, stinking mess that is the Bush Administration:

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

If so, the photograph taken of President George W. Bush and embattled House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was priceless—the windswept DeLay strutting down the tarmac beside the president, two Republican leaders rankled by political setbacks joined at the hip.

There’s a backstory that lurks behind Bush’s decision to stand by DeLay. It involves Greenberg Traurig, the firm that employed the powerful lobbyist who paid for palatial DeLay junkets, and Abramoff staffers, who were footsoldiers in the Florida recount. Greenberg Traurig has yet to receive more than $314,000 in legal fees charged to a Bush committee during the 2000 Florida recount, RAW STORY can confirm.

As a corporation, Greenberg’s unpaid tab represents a massive in-kind campaign contribution, far larger than anything that went unreported by DeLay. But it appears to be legal: corporations are allowed to donate any amount to the nebulous type of committee employed during the recount. It would, however, violate the committee's self-imposed $5,000 contribution limit from individual donors.

Bush’s recount committee doled out some $8 million, much of it to Hill staffers who made the jaunt to the Florida battlefield. But they couldn’t find the money for their telegenic counsel.

Greenberg’s leadership has apparently declined to press the issue. Jill Perry, Greenberg’s director of marketing and public affairs, declined to comment.

A White House official, who declined to be named, referred questions to the Republican National Committee.

“These are campaign issues,” the official said. “We work on doing the people’s business. The RNC handles all campaign-related [expenses].”

“We are funded through taxpayer funds, so we don’t deal with any campaign related issues,” the official added.

The RNC did not immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday.


Abramoff....DeLay....Bush....Perfect Together.
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