Raw Story: Former Abramoff client hosts DeLay fundraiser tonight

[lala_rawraw]

I did not see this posted, but good lord is this the height of hubris or what?


http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/delay_fundraiser_abramoff_fluor_420.htm
Former Abramoff client hosts DeLay fundraiser tonight

By John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor

A former client of fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff will host a fundraiser for the political action committee of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) tonight at 7 p.m., RAW STORY has learned.

The client, an energy company named Fluor, employed Abramoff as their corporate lobbyist in 1998.

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Melanie Sloan, director of the political watchdog group, Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington, said she believes the fundraiser is probably linked to the industry's push to stop legislation banning MTBE, a gasoline additive which has polluted drinking water in the United States.

She added, however, that the fundraiser suggests more serious ties between Abramoff and DeLay than the congressman says.

[Lord_StarFyre]

1. I hope there was a *few* Protesters

out in force to disrupt Bugman's little party!

At least enough to make the media notice what a bought and paid for whore Bugman, and anyone who supports him, really are.

Repuks make me puke

[CornField]

2. There's only one degree of separation between Abramoff and Delay...

Scanlon.

[OWR51]

3. Flour is an Engineering Company not Energy

Flour is not an Energy Company, they are an Engineering Company that does a lot of work for Energy Companies.

[tkmorris]

4. Fluor has fingers in a lot of pies

including energy, but the distinction is pointless in any case. MTBE is a poisonous toxin which should not be allowed to contaminate the water supply. If in fact Fluor is raising funds for Delay in exchange for help keeping it on the market, well, that's exactly what's wrong with politics today isn't it?

[nodehopper]

5. dupe, locking