Abramoff friend describes Burns staff's ties to lobbyist

[Rose Siding]

HELENA - A Republican media consultant and friend of indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff recently wrote a letter to a Montana newspaper saying Burns' staff ate so many free meals at Abramoff's restaurant, people joked they would have "starved to death" without the lobbyist.

"Frankly, it was widely viewed in D.C. that Mr. Abramoff effectively exerted implicit control over Mr. Burns whenever he and his team needed to get something accomplished," reads the letter, which was sent to the Whitefish Pilot last week.

The letter is expected to run in the Pilot's Thursday edition.
The author, Monty Warner, a GOP media consultant, told the Gazette State Bureau last week that he came across an article in the Pilot recently in which Burns is quoted as saying he only got $5,000 from Abramoff. That, combined with Burns' other statements in which he says he hardly knew Abramoff and, at one point, he wished Abramoff had never been born, compelled him to write the letter, Warner said.
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"The Abramoff staff had certain targets and certain people that they worked with and Burns' staff was one that was readily available," Warner said. "I understand (Burns) is in a campaign and I am a Republican, but the nastiness and the manner in which he's gone about trashing my friend is repugnant. I could care less if (Burns) gets elected or not."

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/31/news/state/50-abramoff.txt

[tanyev]

1. No! Burns didn't lie, did he???

*gasp*

[BootinUp]

2. word of the day: schadenfreude

schadenfreude \SHOD-n-froy-duh\, noun:
A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.



:rofl: