From CREW: "Members do use their jobs to financially benefit their families."

[bobthedrummer]

Melanie Sloan was talking about Congress, of course. Here's the article from CREW (posted 2-27-2008)
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/31145

Yesterday CREW had posted and commented on a Huffington Post article about what John McCain was doing on a committee a few years ago-I'll repost that--the subjectline speaks for itself.

Huffington Post: McCain and his committee "sat on the controversial portion" of email linking Jack Abramoff to Alabama Governor
(posted 2-26-2008)
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/31136

Thank you CREW!

[EFerrari]

1. Isn't Riley the one on whose behalf Don Siegelman's election was stolen?

Do we now have a McCain connection to the governor's case?

[bobthedrummer]

2. I don't know-but it's worth checking out, thanks Beth.

:hi:

[EFerrari]

3. He was and it is. From Wiki:

He was defeated for reelection in November 2002 by Representative Bob Riley by the narrowest margin in Alabama history: approximately 3,000 votes. The margin was controversial, as a voting machine malfunction in a single county produced the votes needed to give Riley the election. The recount, however, of that county's votes was affirmed by the state's Attorney General.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Siegelman

And what this entry doesn't say is the state AG STOPPED the recount, he didn't just "affirm" it.

[mod mom]

4. UFB!

[EFerrari]

5. Felony has now become incestuous.

Abramoff buys the election fraud for Riley and McCain says, cool.

:wow:

eta:

Someone needs to ask the McCain campaign about Don Siegelman.

[L. Coyote]

6. So many of these corrupt players keep appearing in the "Arkansas Project"

L. Coyote ... Jun-02-07 - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1023111
14. Bush-DeLay-Abramoff Indian Casinos Campaign Money Laundering Operation

The Bush-DeLay-Indian Casinos Campaign Money Laundering Operation
(Wampum ‘til they’re dead)
by Laurence A. Toenjes
http://www.opednews.com/toenjes_101504_Bush_DeLay.htm


The largest single flow of monies into the DeLay nexus is from the set of six Indian tribes who “hired” Jack Abramoff and Mike Scanlon to help promote the tribes’ interests. .... they managed to extract from the tribes is at $66 million and counting. This is the amount estimated by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee to have been paid to Scanlon alone. .....

.... there is enough evidence to draw monetary links among some of these major political players.



Jack Abramoff received at least $21 million in tribal monies during the period April, 2001 to October, 2003, paid to him by Scanlon ....
... Abramoff is a major Bush supporter, listed on the website of Texans for Political Justice (TPJ) as a Bush Pioneer in 2004. The Pioneers are scouts responsible for bringing in at least $100,000 to the Bush war chest.

Reed is listed on the TPJ website as a Bush Ranger, which puts him in the $200,000-plus category. ......

Mike Scanlon at one time was a staff member and spokesperson for Tom DeLay, playing a key role in DeLay’s earlier successful drive to impeach President Bill Clinton. In October, 2002, Scanlon sent $500,000 to then-candidate for Governor of Alabama, Bob Riley. These funds apparently flowed through the Republican Governors Association and the Republican National State Elections Committee, increasing to $600,000 by the time Riley received them. ......

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So many of these corrupt players keep appearing in the "Arkansas Project" effort to impeach Clinton???

[Octafish]

7. KRB

There's a hell of a lot of money in politics.