September 28, 2006

"485 Contacts between Abramoff Team and White House Officials"

Drudge has a preview of a Roll Call article:

ROLL CALL's John Bresnahann and Paul Kane detail: The 95-page report, which White House officials reviewed Wednesday evening but has yet to be formally approved by the panel, singled out two of President Bush's top lieutenants, Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman, as having been offered expensive meals and exclusive tickets to premier sporting events and concerts by Abramoff and his associates.

In total, the committee was able to document 485 contacts between White House officials and Abramoff and his lobbying team at the firm Greenberg Traurig from January 2001 to March 2004, with 82 of those contacts occuring in Rove's office, including 10 with Rove personally.

Note also that Abramoff has links to Harry Reid, an American Senator who acts more like a Mexican Senator. Via the Marianas, JA has links to a guest worker program. JA may also have links to Sen. John Cornyn and Ralph Reed. And, there's not only a David Safavian, Grover Norquist, Chris Cannon connection, but a Chris Cannon, Grover Norquist, WSJ, and Fox News connection.

You don't need a scorecard because of the numbers of names, just because of all the different combinations they appear in.

Posted to Politics at September 28, 2006 09:32 PM

Comments

Nice blog, Lonewacko!
I see we've arrived at many of the same conclusions.

Thanks for your good efforts!
Regards,
AuntB

Posted by: AuntB at September 28, 2006 10:33 PM

What's the point of being a politician if you can't get in on some graft, make cronyism mean more than playing golf, and set yourself up for a cushy private sector position when the gig is up. After all, the jobs don't pay all that well.

Posted by: eh at September 29, 2006 01:48 AM

Big Money being made, what a non government is! "bush selling us out", I think we all know that, or do we? READ eh.

Posted by: Fred Dawes at September 29, 2006 11:31 AM