Betcha the Coushattas have pictures of themselves with **

[hang a left]

And if we are lucky Jackie boy is in one or two of them. I mean isn't it common when you meet with the POTUS to get in a photo or two?




edit: oopsie P

[Fridays Child]

1. That's what I'm thinking, too.

For pics, maybe the search terms should include "coushatta" or "Lovelin Poncho," the tribe leader who met B*sh.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Seen this?? I'm wondering how accurate this is.....

http://www.opednews.com/toenjes_101504_Bush_DeLay.htm

[ingac70]

3. Have there been any interviews with the ripped off tribes?

I wonder how they felt when the heard about the memos in which they were refered to asm onkeys and troglodytes?

[pitohui]

4. there was a story in the washingon post

the coushattas are not amused and want their money back

they're glad abramoff is going to prison, "veangance" was the word used in the piece, but maybe they figure it's more like justice, he stole more than a year's income for every man, woman, and child in the tribe -- $32 million dollars! -- to get republicans to swing votes their way and instead he just put the money in his pocket

so they think he's an extortionist and a thief as well as just rude

wouldn't you?

maybe someone can link the story, it was online recently

[phoebe]

5. Coushatta tribal members surveilling each other - spending .5 million

had no idea the situation was this ugly - you can BET someone's got pictures.. that's a boatload of money to use on surveillance alone..

http://www.indiancountrynews.com/fullstory.cfm?ID=89.

The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana paid over $525,000 to keep an eye on other tribes, a racetrack owner, and its own members and officials, a newspaper reported Sept. 12.

Records indicate that tribal officials spent $150,000 to monitor other Coushattas, $250,000 to monitor the Jena Band of Choctaw and $100,000 to monitor the Alabama Coushatta Tribe of Texas, the American Press reported. It said another $25,000 went to monitor former Delta Downs Racetrack owner Shawn Scott.

The observation and surveillance payments were part of $18 million to $21 million paid over three years to public relations consultant Michael Scanlons Capitol Campaign Strategies. They included background checks, site visits, physical surveillance from Louisiana to Washington, D.C., picture taking and videotaping.

People he was paid to keep an eye on included Kevin Battise, then chairman of the Alabama Coushattas Tribe of Texas; Bertney Langley, then a Coushatta tribal council member; Kathy VanHoof, when she was attorney for the Coushattas; and Aubrey T. Temple Jr., then chief executive officer of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana and its gaming management company.

[phoebe]

6. off pic. topic slightly.. Kevin Battise was unhappy with Bush in 2003

Indianz.Com. In Print.
URL: http://www.indianz.com/News/archives/002618.asp


NCAI delegates let loose about Bush administration
Wednesday, November 19, 2003

During the first part of the general session of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) on Tuesday, Jennifer Farley, Associate Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for the White House, spoke to the delegates about the White House's commitment to Native Americans.

After her speech, Farley took questions from the delegates. Many of the questions had to do with how the White House had slighted tribal leaders by dismissing numerous requests for meetings.

Farley told the tribal leaders that they were not going through the right channels to reach the president. Rather than going through the main White House contacts, she said tribes should go through her office. (How glaringly obvious could she be - pay to play definitely suggested)

Farley said President Bush was very interested in hearing from the tribes on a governmental basis on appointments to the judiciary and other positions. She gave the crowd her FAX number and email address and said she would be available to meet with anyone attending NCAI.

Kevin Battise, chairman of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe, got up to tell the delegates that President Bush, as Governor of Texas, never visited the reservation despite numerous requests. He detailed his tribe's history of problems with gaming in the state.

[phoebe]

7. Looks like Poppy Bush was the one in the pictures..

http://www.texnews.com/1998/2002/texas/tribe0619.html.

Wednesday, June 19, 2002

snip

Battise and the tribe underscored their testimony with photos of former President George Bush during a tour of the Alabama-Coushatta reservation and another of then-Texas Gov. John Connally on the cover of a Saturday Evening Post. In the photos, Bush and Connally wear bolo ties depicting twin waterfowl, the tribes' symbol.

- didn't Conally die in '92 - confused....