Not a single Dem took Abramoff money

[Boult]

NO DEMS FRAKKING TOOK A DIME FROM JACK ABRAMOFF AT ALL!

Howard Dean has to straighten Wolf Blitzer out that he was misinformed by NRSC and RNC.

DEAN: There are no Democrats who took money from Jack Abramoff, not one, not one single Democrat. Every person named in this scandal is a Republican. Every person under investigation is a Republican. Every person indicted is a Republican. This is a Republican finance scandal. There is no evidence that Jack Abramoff ever gave any Democrat any money. And we've looked through all of those FEC reports to make sure that's true.

This was on CNN Late Edition this morning; here's transcript;
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/08/le.01.html

Crooks and Liar has the video at;
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/01/08.html#a6627
Note that Wolf had a big sigh in video before finishing the talk with Dean.

I agree with what Dean said. It's true that NO Dems took a frakking dime from Jack! I know Koko would say they did but not directly from Jack or his agents. Those Indian tribes are NOT Abramoff's agents! get it!

Some one has done the research on FEC on Abramoff and Dems. It turns out NONE of those Dems that which Kokonut (AKA qwerty from DOL which he no longer post but probably lurks and he has a blog with a entry on accusing Dems of taking $$ from Jack at: http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2006/01...nking-boat.html ) believes that those Dems he listed did actually took money from Jack Abramoff directly or indirectly while it is not true. This link; http://www.democrats.com/node/7324 will tell you that NONE of those Dems took any. and that link has links (Political Money Line and Newsmeat) where you can see for yourself.
In Kokonut's blog entry, two of those links goes to NRSC which is a republican website! And those two NRSC links that details out those but he didn't use outside links like democrats.com did list two outside that track $$ of all parties. which one do you believe?

There's more that Abramoff didn't give any to Dems:...
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/200...moff/index.html
http://users.bestweb.net/%7Ebgeiger/abramoff.htm
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jack_Abramoff

Now tell me why would Abramoff or Repbublicans wants to give $$ to Democrats since Jack Abramoff is himself a republican which is a staunch supporter of Republicans and Republican party big time. This has made K-Street Lobbyists bigger since 1995 that's why Culture of Corruption has gotten bigger now! (so Nancy Pelosi is right!)


Thanks to Daily Kos; http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/8/215630/2516 for inspiring me to make this topic.


(Of course I do watch Battlestar Galatica on Sci-Fi Channel which the word "frak" came from )

 

[Dennis S.]

I dunno. From the reports that I saw, Abramoff gave money on both sides of the fence. While he may have been a staunch Republican supporter, I can see him giving money to Democrats to get them to agree to certain Republican agenda items, like abortion control.

Democrats are not pure "Left Wingers." There are actually several conservative Democrats (that senator from Connecticut being one, Republican all but in name) and they could agree to the Republican agenda as long as they don't have to toe the party line. Giving them money in exchange for their votes is a way to get them to step off their line.

So, I'm waiting for evidence that NO Democrats were involved. I hightly doubt it's true, and it'd be nice if it was true, but come on, politicians accept money from just about ANYONE.