A Date with the President! Only $100,000! ---pix--->>>

[Stephanie]

Chief Maynard Kahgegab Jr., right, and his wife Malissa, left, pose with President Bush and first lady Laura Bush at a 2002 White House Christmas reception in Washington. (AP Photo/Saginaw Chippewa tribe)

E-mails detail Abramoff requests, contacts

WASHINGTON - 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.
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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.

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[Faygo Kid]

1. Aarggh! My state - hope the Chippewas drop Chief Bloatedness

So that's how the millions gained from gambling in Michigan are being spent. Sorry to see $100,000 can be wasted like that, young "Chief". This pisses me off on so many levels that I will just take a deep breath here.

[Stephanie]

2. I'm sure the money wasn't needed for health care or schools

or housing or roads or community centers. I'm sure the tribe could afford to blow the money on a photo. Right?

[Faygo Kid]

4. I, my dear friend, am with you. You think like me.

Can I help you find psychiatric help? Just a joke (geez, you know that! What a maroon I am). Thanks for commenting. As a Michigander, and a human being, I would like to contact the Chippewa tribe and blast this sorry excuse for a chief.

[knitter4democracy]

9. Me too.

It's just sad, frankly. It's not like the tribe doesn't need those funds for other, more important things.

[Brigid]

3. 100 grand for a date with Bush?

They'd have to pay me at least ten times that to date him.

[rainman99]

5. I wouldn't pay $1 for a date with him.

[madokie]

10. I might let him in the house for a photo op for 100 grand

I would be hanging my head in shame though.

[charlie]

6. Norquist, eh?

ATR looks to be losing its tax-exempt status shortly. Chief HuggaDubya will have to return the tax writeoff he took for the 100 grand. Way to doubly screw over your tribe, Chief.

[Bluebear]

7. 'and knows you organized this last time and hope to this year'

But of course Bush denies ever meeting Abramoff.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

8. I have sometimes thought about those athletes that do something

special and are invited to the White House; If it were me, I would definitely have to decline, no matter how great the honor, because I just couldn't shake hands with that monster.