Multimillion dollar Abramoff client gave $50,000 to GOP after meeting with

[RamboLiberal]

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Multimillion_dollar_Abramoff_client_who_gave_0201.html

Abramoff firm gave $50,000 more to GOP congressional campaigns seven months after visits

Eleven million dollars can buy a lot of access in Washington. Especially if your lobbyist is Jack Abramoff.

Take Beningo Fitial, the current governor of the Northern Marianas Islands, a U.S. territory in the Pacific. He and his company, along with their trade lobby and funds doled out by the islands at his prodding, spent $11.5 million dollars lobbying Washington between 1995 and 2002. Now he says he wants his money back -- but he continues to maintain that Abramoff protected his island's interests.

Fitial—who became Speaker of the Marianas House after a coup organized by Abramoff’s associates and former aides of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay—was treated like a king.

In January 2001, Fitial enjoyed the inauguration of President George W. Bush.

[Reader Rabbit]

1. But...but...but...it's the Democrats' problem, too!

Can't wait to see the MSM try to spin this as a bipartisan scandal!

[alfredo]

4. you actually think the MSM would even report on it?

[Catrina]

2. Better save that picture before they find it!

What a bunch of corrupt crooks ~ and how many pictures can they scrub? All of Bush's supporters are suspect, outright corrupt or from families that have done business with the 'enemy', including his own.

So if he got his money's worth, why would he be asking for it back?

Each day there's more evidence that the so-called 'Republican majority' was bought with dirty money, or with fixed elections. It's looking more and more like a myth, that the country 'swung to the right'.

[Straight Shooter]

3. Reminds me of that photo of bush shaking hands with the Uzbekistan guy.

Vultures of a feather and all that.

[wordpix2]

5. note: Lott, Hasturd, Delay, Burns, Bush all mentioned in same breath

snip:
In January 2001, Fitial enjoyed the inauguration of President George W. Bush.

Three months later, in April, Fitial met Bush a second time. He also met Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS). Then he stopped in for visit with Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL).

In other words—Abramoff seems to have arranged for a non-head of state for a tiny island in the Pacific to meet with the three most powerful men in the United States of America. But that’s not all: Fitial also met with then-Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX) and Senate Interior Department Appropriations Chairman Conrad Burns (R-MT). Fitial appears in photographs with Burns and Delay -- enlarged from tiny thumbnails in his hometown paper -- at left.

[seemslikeadream]

6. maybe that's why Bonnie was served with a CRIMINAL subpoena

5:19 P.M. -
The House received a communication from Bonnie Walsh, Office of the Honorable J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House. Pursuant to Rule VIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, Ms. Walsh notified the House that she had been served with a criminal subpoena for testimony issued by the Circuit Court for the 16th Judicial Circuit, DeKalb County, Illinois and that after consultation with the Office of General Counsel, she had determined that compliance with the subpoena was consistent with the precedents and privileges of the House.

http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.html

she works in the Ottawa office
100 W. LaFayette
Ottawa 61350
[phone]
Staff: Bonnie Walsh

[maxrandb]

7. Well, I shake ,er..lots of hands

I'm a hugger, that's what I am. I'm a hugger, and sometimes...I just hug. I er, ummm, I don't really know this guy, he's just, er, umm, some guy that I hugged, er,,,uh...'cause I'm a hugger, see? Uh, not a hugger in a Brokeback Mountain kind of way, or anything, but ...that's what I do, I hug.

[Tight_rope]

9. ROTFLMBAO....I love your true interpretation of what Bush would say!

[KansDem]

11. If Fitial were bald, Bush would be rubbing his head! (eom)

[lovuian]

8. Pay the Boss Man his due this is sickening!!!

:argh:

[stop the bleeding]

10. I guess my cooties are contagious - cause I started this here about

1:50pm EST and it got locked and moved to GD and then fell into never never land

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2079252

Oh well here is to kicking this thread - see if it last a little longer here.