The Washington Post has a good article about the many connections between Ralph Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition, and Jack Abramoff. Reed took millions from gambling interests, funnelled through Abramoff, to mobilize Christian opposition to new casinos, everyone knew that. They've been close friends for 25 years, it turns out. The golden boy of the religious right may be going down in flames.
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Wow, this is an explosive story. GQ has a story on Ralph Reed, former Christian Coalition director now running for Lt. Governor in Georgia, that contains new allegations that will shock even the cynical.
Former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been sentenced to four years in prison for corruption.
A Washington court found Abramoff guilty of trading expensive gifts, meals and sports trips in exchange for political favours.
The AP has an article about emails that have been entered into evidence in the Jack Abramoff proceedings, emails that reveal with enormous clarity
Frederick Clarkson has a post at Talk2Action about a new Senate report that shows all sorts of funny goings on between Jack Abramoff and Toward Tradition, a
I'll believe it when I see it. Just like all of these tainted politicians they seem to have a one word defense strategy:
Deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny...
And when that doesn't work (a la Tom Delay) then:
Deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny...
Interesting indeed. It's quarter past time that some of the old members of the Republican College Committee got their comeuppance. It's always been about the money, after all.
Cheers!
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Ralph Reed is campaiging for Lt. Governor in Georgia right now. His primary opponents are criticizing him for corruption and for being more concerned with Washington than Georgia.