The donations included:
• $19,500 from the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of California.
• $5,000 from the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana.
• $7,000 from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
• $19,000 from the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan.
In fact, Senator Harry Reid received at least $68,941 from Jack Abramoff’s groups. Which places him third behind only John Kerry ($98,550) and Patty Murray ($78,991) for the top score among Democrat Senators.
Meanwhile, Tom "the most corrupt man who ever lived" Delay only received $15,000 from Abramoff.
Furthermore, the moral paragon Reid refuses to give up his ill-gotten gain. Whereas wicked Tom Delay gave the filthy lucre he received to charity.
And yet Senator Reid regularly calls the Republican Congress "the most corrupt in history" and writes about "Republican organized crime."
But one would expect a man who is in the pocket of the mob represents Las Vegas to be an expert on corruption and organized crime.
Sam why would you take anything from the NRSC at face value? As I said in my previous post Reid is on the Indian Affairs Committee. Indians being a minority have always looked to Dems to represent their interests and contributed to the party accordingly. What's odd is that when they got the right to build casinos and Abramoff came to town they started giving to Republicans too. To the tune of $28 million. Repubs have never been known to help Indian tribes. In 2004 Repubs even tried to suppress the Indian vote in South Dakota.
A couple of different studies have shown that Abramoff's Indian clients not only didn't increase their contributions to Democrats they actually decreased them. No wonder as Abramoff was trying to get the Indians to cut Dems off completely.
Reid represents the State of Nevada. Gambling is one of the biggest if not THE biggest business in the state. As a Nevada senator it's in his constituients' interests to oppose competition to Vegas and Reno.
Abramoff worked at one point for the lobbying firm Greenberg Traurig. So did lots of other lobbyists. Reid never met Abramoff. He met with other lobbyists from Greenberg Traurig. He received lobbying money from them and from Indian tribes Abramoff defrauded. But claiming Reid is connected to Abramoff and is therefore dirty is like me calling you a Nazi because you drive a Volkswagon.