Abramoff, Delay & Blunt: "Why, it's just a coincidence, your honor!"

[MrBenchley]

Can't wait until we hear Faux Noise trying to peddle this to their viewers.

"WASHINGTON - Tom DeLay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to longtime ally Roy Blunt through a series of donations that benefited both men's causes.
When the financial carousel stopped, DeLay's private charity, the consulting firm that employed DeLay's wife and the Missouri campaign of Blunt's son all ended up with money, according to campaign documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
Jack Abramoff, a Washington lobbyist recently charged in an ongoing federal corruption and fraud investigation, and Jim Ellis, the DeLay fundraiser indicted with his boss last week in Texas, also came into the picture.
Hartley said he saw no similarity to the Texas case. The fact that DeLay's charity, Christine DeLay's consulting firm and Blunt's son were beneficiaries was a coincidence, Hartley said.
Much of the money — including one donation to Blunt from an Abramoff client accused of running a "sweatshop" garment factory in the Northern Mariana Islands — changed hands in the spring of 2000, a period of keen interest to federal prosecutors."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051006/ap_on_go_co/delay_money_carousel

Some how I don't think the "coincidence" defense is going to fly....

[texpatriot2004]

1. You know, some people don't believe in coincidence. n/t

[lateo]

2. The culture of corruption.

I think the repubs are about to implode.

[MrBenchley]

3. Sure seems like it....

Hahahahahahaha....

[mzteris]

4. Blunt going down, too?

:rofl:

What does that say about their choices for "leaders"?

The Pubs are tanking!

[MrBenchley]

6. And remember, they gave Dreier the shaft because he's gay....

This is getting to be very entertaining...

[mzteris]

8. I almost wrote

that the Pubs are now thinking, "maybe we'd've been better off with that gay guy after all."

and another :rofl: for letting their homophobia get in the way of using any form of good judgement.

Not that drier is much of an improvement - gay or not. Being gay is probably his ONLY redeeming quality!

[MrBenchley]

9. Barney Frank was asked if Dreier was rejected because

he was a moderate, or because he was gay. Barney replied, "Moderate, of course. And later I'll be going to a moderate bar."

[nickinSTL]

5. ooh...could this take down Blunt's son in Missouri?

I don't think many Missourians would miss him :evilgrin:

[MrBenchley]

7. I hope so...

You know, Abramoff ties into the Ohio Coingate mess, too....as well as a mob hit in Florida.