The Forward ties Abramoff to attacks on Kerry

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Holy crap. This guy's like a spider. The poisonous kind.

http://www.forward.com/articles/3070

Lobbyist's Tie to Mahathir Raising Jewish Eyebrows

By E.J. KESSLER
April 22, 2005

Reports of business dealings between embattled Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the government of a Malaysian leader known for antisemitic speeches are drawing flak from Democrats and raising eyebrows among Jewish communal officials.

According to press reports, Abramoff once worked for the government of former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, after the Southeast Asian leader accused "the Jews" in 1997 of conspiring to drive down his country's currency. Abramoff, a longtime conservative activist and Orthodox Jewish philanthropist who supports right-wing Israeli causes, was paid indirectly in 2001 by Mahathir's government, at a time when the premier was seeking to improve Malaysia's image in America, according to reports in The Washington Post and Time magazine.

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The reports that Abramoff had lobbied for the Mahathir regime and that DeLay had dined with Mahathir at a "fancy dinner" in Kuala Lumpur in 2001 provided an opportunity for Democrats to attack them for political hypocrisy. Republicans had used Mahathir in attacks on Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry that were aimed at the Jewish community. Late in the 2004 campaign, the Republican parties of Florida and Ohio mailed Jewish households a flyer with a picture of Kerry positioned between the Malaysian premier and Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader. "Two infamous foreign leaders have stepped forward from the shadows to endorse John Kerry," the flyer read.

"Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff's web of corruption doesn't even seem to know any international boundaries," said David Wade, campaign adviser for Kerry 2004. "It looks like it's less than six degrees of separation from one of the most vicious smears in presidential campaign history."

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1. Share this with GDP.....keep them aware of how the evil side operates.

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2. ok. n/t

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3. Abramoff Corsi

Menopausal hormone emergency.

What the hell did we end up with on the names involved in the Swift Boat stuff? I can't remember what connections we came up with, or what context it was in.

Also, National Center for Public Policy Research, Capital Athletic Fund,

Scanlon's Think Tank, the American International, received money from the Coushatta Tribe and located on property owned by Mr. Scanlon, paid Mr. Abramoff $1.5 million in fees, much of it after it after it closed. Mr. Abramoff's Capitol Athletic Foundation received $1 million each from the Coushatta tribe of Louisiana, and the Choctaw tribe of Mississippi. This foundation then made a $1.8 million donation to an Orthodox Jewish private school founded by Mr. Abramoff. The school closed when Mr. Abramoff was expelled from his law firm.

Looking for more links between people in these groups and attacks or other bizarre activities against Kerry.