Report Details 485 Contacts between Abramoff Team and White House Officials

Drudge ^ | 09/28/06 | Matt Drudge

[Recovering_Democrat]

SMEAR CAMPAIGN!

Here comes the smear campaign: 40 something days before the 'rats get their reward.

They make me sick.

[Recovering_Democrat]

"Contacts" could mean: emails not answered, phone messages left, letters sent, telegrams, a passing nod in a hallway, whatever.

This is absolute crap. A hit job on Rove and Mehlman and Bush and Cheney.

I really really hope our President and his team weather this storm. Prayers going up for them!!

[excludethis]

THE REPUBS IN CHARGE AND THE House Government Reform Committee IS ALLOWING SUCH A REPORT TO COME OUT RIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION, OUR REPUB CONGRESSMEN MUST BE A BUNCH OF MORONS!

[The Great RJ]

Given his long career as a lobbyist, who in Washington, Democrat or Republican didn't have contact with Abramoff? To borrow from Clinton it all depends on what the meaning of "contact" is. Would being at a cocktail party with Abramoff count as a contact? Certainly he would have been invited to White House parties etc. but hell who in Washington's elite hasn't been.

[dead]

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.

Offered? So what?

Did they accept? And if they did, was it illegal?

All the rest is worthless chatter.

[Chode]

ohhh nooooooooo... now the President will NEVER get reelected!!!

[ICE-FLYER]

OF COURSE THE REPORT DOES...its only a month before a mid-term election that the Democrats will not win sufficient numbers to take house or senate...THATS WHY!

[Jewels1091]

great, just great

[kristinn]

George Steponallofus talked about this on World News Tonight with Charles Gibson. The report also says Abramoff asked the White House to hire 20 people, but they only hired one of the twenty.

The irony of having a Clintonista who witnessed Bill and Hillary turn the White House into a campaign cash bordello for ChiCom agents and Columbian drug dealers report this story tonight was not lost on me.

[bkepley]

It's sleazy..but that's what lobbyists do.

[Zeroisanumber]

SMEAR CAMPAIGN!

"...according to a draft bipartisan report prepared by the House Government Reform Committee."

A bipartisan smear campaign?

[Dog Gone]

THE REPUBS IN CHARGE AND THE House Government Reform Committee IS ALLOWING SUCH A REPORT TO COME OUT RIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION, OUR REPUB CONGRESSMEN MUST BE A BUNCH OF MORONS!

You're under the false impression that they had the power to stop it.

[socal_parrot]

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[sgtyork]

 

Mennnnennnnnddezzzzz!!!!!

 

The tale of the tape, spells even more trouble for New Jersey political appointee Bob Menendez. This is a race to watch as Tom Kean Jr. continues to lead Menedez by 3-4 percentage points.

“For nearly two years, Oscar Sandoval worked as an FBI informant in a criminal probe resulting in convictions of a half-dozen North Jersey politicians and government vendors, shaking the state’s political establishment.

But fallout from his role in Hudson County government may not be over, as new ethical questions are raised in a highly charged U.S. Senate race in which Sen. Robert Menendez’s activities in county politics and patronage have come under scrutiny.

In court papers filed in March, the North Jersey psychiatrist says he was pressured in 1999 to hire a doctor favored by Menendez or risk losing $1 million in government contracts.

Sandoval surreptitiously tape-recorded what he took as the threatening conversation, and provided a copy of the previously unreleased recording to The Inquirer.

In the 20-minute taped telephone call, Donald Scarinci - a powerful North Jersey lawyer, political fund-raiser, and confidant of Menendez’s - tells Sandoval that Menendez would consider it “a favor” if Sandoval hired the doctor. He also said hiring Vicente Ruiz would afford him “protection.”

Sandoval said the implication was clear: Either he hire Ruiz or risk losing psychiatric-services contracts at the Hudson County Jail, a county psychiatric hospital, and a youth detention center.

Failing to hire the doctor could result in “the law of the jungle,” Scarinci says on the tape.”

Sounds like a Sopranos episode….

 

[demsux]

Abramoff was an equal opportunity shyster.

Both parties should get equal time on this.

[ladyinred]

And Foreign fund raisers were invited to coffee and who knows what else in the Lincoln bedroom for a price when Clinton was President, but that is okay right media? Chinese Communist money was flowing, along with our secrets!!! No problem!

[wagglebee]

OUR REPUB CONGRESSMEN MUST BE A BUNCH OF MORONS!

You're just now figuring this out?

[plangent]

The White House kept sayin "NO"!

[Raycpa]

Offered? So what? Did they accept?

If they accepted they would have been dismissed when the WH reviewed the report.

[AmeriBrit]

Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman, as having been offered expensive meals and exclusive tickets to premier sporting events ========================================================

HARRY REID WASN'T ONLY OFFERED, HE EXCEPTED!