Bush to donate $6,000 he recieved from Abramoff to American Heart Assoc.

[dajoki]

NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/05/politics/05abramoff.html?ex=1294117200&en=a0659cf8af33ee4d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Bush and Others Shed Donations Tied to Lobbyist

By ANNE E. KORNBLUT and ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: January 5, 2006

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 - President Bush and senior Republican lawmakers moved on Wednesday to dump thousands of dollars in campaign donations from Jack Abramoff, the former lobbyist, hastily distancing themselves as he pleaded guilty to two more criminal counts under his agreement with prosecutors.

The United States attorney in Miami, R. Alexander Acosta, refused to discuss links to the big Washington bribery case after the pleading.
Mr. Bush will donate $6,000, the amount he received from Mr. Abramoff, Mr. Abramoff's wife and a lobbying client in his re-election campaign in 2004, to the American Heart Association, a spokesman said.

The former House majority leader Tom DeLay, Republican of Texas, and his successor, Representative Roy Blunt of Missouri, also announced plans to give away campaign cash related to Mr. Abramoff.

<<snip>>

After months of insisting that there was nothing wrong with his alliance with Mr. Abramoff, with whom he traveled repeatedly overseas, Mr. DeLay decided to return $15,000 in donations that flowed from Mr. Abramoff. Mr. Abramoff's "admission of guilt and improper actions warranted our action to make something positive come of all this by donating the money to local charities rather than retaining it," Ms. Flaherty said.

[LynneSin]

1. Great, what about the other $94,000k+

:shrug:

[Deep13]

4. That doesn't count, ....

...because it is in the form of cute kitten checks.

[dajoki]

6. he spent it n/t

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

12. $99,000K if you include the $5K donated to the Florida 2000 recount...

[Deep13]

2. but he'll keep the $100K Abramoff arranged for him.

Apparently, it doesn't count because someone else's signature is on the check.

If someone gives me known stolen property and I give it back when he gets caught, does that make me innocent of Receiving Stolen Property? Here the property in question is the public trust.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

3. I'm surprised that he didn't give it one of the miner's funds

and then have his lackeys beat their chest about what a compassionate conservative George is.

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[dajoki]

8. welcome to DU Balance

:hi:

[Dr.Phool]

7. Maybe he can get a deal on a heart for Cheney.

[dajoki]

9. Does that mean it's ok...

to rob a bank, and when you get caught you return the money and they send you on your merry way?

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[Botany]

11. Dems did it too = RNC talking point.

http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Jack_Abramoff.php

not one penny ever went directly from Abramoff to any dem ever. Fact.

2nd & 3rd parties did some contributions to dems but even then it was @ 3 to 1 and 4 to 1 rates.

BTW do you like Pizza?



because i bet ya that you might get some very soon ..... @ DU sometimes it is so Free we call
it Freeper Pie.

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[Botany]

16. Sorry

but my hackles go up to both dems and repugs did it. That is just not true.

That is a "talking point" it comes from Creative Response Concepts
http://www.crc4pr.com/ of Arlington, VA. bush and company have been
putting this point forward for 2 months now. bush said that Abramoff gave money
evenly to both repugs & dems on his "interview" on Fox w/ Britt Hume.

Fact Abramoff was a republican ...... he never gave one cent to a dem.
Fact Senators have to raise incredible sums of money to run for and
stay in congress ..... if dems got money from Abramoff's clients but did
not know that Abramoff was behind it .... so what. They did nothing wrong.
So why should they give the money back?

Reid's relationship to 3rd parties who connected w/ Abramoff is far different then
republicans.

and if you are not a Freeper :beer:

[dajoki]

19. the facts...

WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2005/12/12/GR2005121200286.html

How Abramoff Spread the Wealth...
republicans-$3.41 million(63.7%)
democrats-$1.88 million(35.1%)


WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/28/AR2005122801588.html?referrer=email

The Fast Rise and Steep Fall of Jack Abramoff
How a Well-Connected Lobbyist Became the Center of a Far-Reaching Corruption Scandal

By Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, December 29, 2005

<<snip>>

Hints of Trouble

A quarter of a century ago, Abramoff and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist were fellow Young Turks of the Reagan revolution. They organized Massachusetts college campuses in the 1980 election -- Abramoff while he was an undergraduate at Brandeis and Norquist at Harvard Business School -- to help Ronald Reagan pull an upset in the state.

They moved to Washington, maneuvered to take over the College Republicans -- at the time a sleepy establishment organization -- and transformed it into a right-wing activist group. They were joined by Ralph Reed, an ambitious Georgian whose later Christian conversion would fuel his rise to national political prominence.

Soon they made headlines with such tactics as demolishing a mock Berlin Wall in Lafayette Park, where they also burned a Soviet leader in effigy. "We want to shock them," Abramoff told The Post at the time.

They forged lifelong ties. At Reagan's 72nd-birthday party at the White House, Reed introduced Abramoff to his future wife, Pam Alexander, who was working with Reed. She eventually converted to Judaism and embraced the Orthodox beliefs Abramoff had adopted as a teenager.

[KansDem]

13. Hey, George! What happened to "faith-based" charities?

Doesn't the AHA rely on "scientific research?"

[dajoki]

20. i don't think...

dumbya knows the difference,

[BR_Parkway]

14. I'm sure the folks on the Gulf Coast were happy that Shrub thought

of them once again. Compassionate Conservatism my ass.

{note - not meant to be a put down of American Heart Assoc by any means, simply that there are too many American's right now who have much more immeadiate needs}

[ddeclue]

17. To find a cure for all the heartless Republicans?

Doug D.

[robbedvoter]

18. Maybe he should sell this pic for the difference $94,000