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President for sale

Disagreeable

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Link below; my emphasis.

"Wanted: Face time with President Bush or top adviser Karl Rove. Suggested donation: $100,000. The middleman: lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Blunt e-mails that connect money and access in Washington show that prominent Republican activist Grover Norquist facilitated some administration contacts for Abramoff's clients while the lobbyist simultaneously solicited those clients for large donations to Norquist's tax-exempt group.
Those who were solicited or landed administration introductions included foreign figures and American Indian tribes, according to e-mails gathered by Senate investigators and federal prosecutors or obtained independently by The Associated Press.
"Can the tribes contribute $100,000 for the effort to bring state legislatures and those tribal leaders who have passed Bush resolutions to Washington?" Norquist wrote Abramoff in one such e-mail in July 2002.
"When I have funding, I will ask Karl Rove for a date with the president. Karl has already said 'yes' in principle and knows you organized this last time and hope to this year," Norquist wrote in the e-mail.”


Much, much more at the link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060625/ap_on_go_pr_wh/abramoff_white_house;_ylt=AsrjfATane9q2W4l3RHs9oas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
 

Econ101

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They have sure sold their responsibilities of running their regulatory agencies out. Congress has refused to do its job on oversight in many of the industries it oversees. GIPSA is but one example.
 

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