Burn K Street to the ground and salt the earth beneath it.

[Fridays Child]

What I've never understood is why the business of lobbying is legal, in the first place. After the first contact with a lobbyist, any benefit derived from him or his client should be illegal, under any circumstance. Don't we pay our Congressmonkeys and their lavish staffs enough to research the issues and listen to constituents, on their own?


Doolittle isn't talking about letters

WASHINGTON - Rep. John Doolittle turned down repeated requests from reporters Monday asking him to explain why he wrote letters in 2003 on behalf of two Indian tribes that had hired Jack Abramoff's lobbying firm, including one letter that appeared to go against his long-standing opposition to gambling.
Doolittle, an eight-term Republican from Rocklin, declined to comment on an Associated Press report that he had objected to the closing of a casino run by one of the tribes in a June 2003 letter to Interior Secretary Gale Norton.

"He doesn't have any comment on the AP story," said Richard Robinson, Doolittle's chief of staff.

Disclosure of Doolittle's efforts to help the Indian tribes is the most recent development tying him to Abramoff, the once-powerful lobbyist who pleaded guilty Jan. 4 to conspiracy and fraud.

Abramoff had funneled campaign money to Doolittle and hired his wife and a former aide.

The AP obtained the two letters in a Freedom of Information Act request.

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