Kenny and the Sex Slaves! LA Times: Melhman fired man over sex slaves?

[havocmom]

Many thanks to Americablog (http://americablog.blogspot.com/) and the LA TIMES

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mehlman15oct15,0,1634103.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Seems Abramoff, in his work for human rights abusers in the American Commonwealth territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, had a State Dept worker fired. The man inside the WH most likely to have assured the firing of Allen Stayman, who negotiated with those Islands which profit from sex slave trade was Ken Mehlman.

Same Ken Mehlman who now heads the GOP.

And same Northern Marianna Islands that Conrad Burns switched a vote on after a contribution. Conrad Burns suddenly decided that this US protectorate territory did NOT have to abide by US labor laws and could continue suckering asian workers with the promise of 'coming to America' only to find the same slave wages they were paying to escape from... or worse.

[blogslut]

1. yep

The close of that article was yummy:

"With only about a year left on my appointment, I didn't think it would trigger any interest from the White House," Stayman said. "I assumed that Abramoff was behind it, but I didn't know the details, who called whom and how much effort it took."

Unbeknownst to Stayman, though, within weeks of Bush taking office, the "Stayman project" was in full swing.

State Department officials resisted the dismissal, and negotiations dragged on for months. In May 2001, one of Mehlman's deputies assured Abramoff's team that, "Obviously, this guy cannot stay."

That July 9, Ralston e-mailed Abramoff with news of a deal on Stayman: "He'll be out in four months."

And he was.

[rsmith6621]

2. Will The Billings Mt Gazzette Pickup This Article

eom

[havocmom]

4. Will havocmom write a LTTE asking them to and pointing out why?

:evilgrin:

[11 Bravo]

16. I'm guessing YES.

Go get 'em, havocmom.

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[babylonsister]

5. Yowza. I hope Tester is aware of this! And of course,

Mehlman's denying any culpability; typical rethug.

GOP Chief Denies Helping Abramoff

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-elect/200...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the Republican Party said Sunday he did not have a former State Department official fired at disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff's request, despite e-mails that reportedly suggest otherwise.

Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, denied playing a role in the firing of Allen Stayman from his job as a special negotiator while Mehlman was the White House political director.

Among Abramoff's clients were the Northern Mariana Islands, which opposed Stayman's labor reforms for the U.S. commonwealth.

Before he joined the State Department, Stayman had headed the Interior Department's Office of Insular Affairs, which helps manage the islands and other U.S. territories.

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[havocmom]

6. sis, I often wonder how much of this shit could be avoided

if some people weren't so starved for acceptance, attention, affection that they are willing to promote any evil if it will just get them some notice from the 'cool guys' like Abramoff liked to promote himself as being.

How many of these GOP hacks have sold their souls just out of hunger for some
'atta boy!' attention from authority figures? How much better off would we be with improved parenting in America?

Makes me really sad.

As to Tester's people noticing this story and how it rings to Burns' support for Abramoff client's wish to avoid US labor laws and protection for workers in Mariana Islands, I would hope they have some DUers in their office ;)

[babylonsister]

7. I think you're right about the parenting, hmom.

While lots of us crave attention or acceptance, the majority of us wouldn't sell our souls to get it. There's also a little thing about valuing your self-worth that people such as Mehlman don't seem to get. Hell, he even disavows his sexuality in the name of politics. They live it and breathe it, to the exclusion of being true to themselves.

[glitch]

13. I think this is the core of what all their corruption is about for them.

If only someone had loved and protected them when they were children.

[hootinholler]

8. Didn't they also fire a DOJ prosecutor? n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

9. this was all in the House report on Abramoff, released about three weeks

ago

http://www.housedemocrats.gov/news/librarydetail.cfm?library_content_id=948

am I missing something here, or is this just getting reported after all this time?

how come Wolfie didn't mention any of this yesterday when he had him on? silly question, I know

[havocmom]

10. Finally picked up by some part of MSM - LA Times piece

We could do worse than get some more exposure for this little glimps into GOP values ;)

[Gabi Hayes]

12. I'm hip, but what do you think the chances are of this getting any play

in the only medium it really matters: Tube?

compare this to the Dean Scream, for example, which they played to death, or the Swiftboat story, or Gore/Internet, or, well you know what I mean

it's the media, and it always has been the media, ever since Nixon resigned. that's when it started to change.

and it's why we have the little remembered, not lamented king of scum, William Simon, to thank for most of it

[Supersedeas]

11. US protectorate of slave labor

[Vidar]

14. Good find.

[Buzz Clik]

15. The connections inferred are pretty fuzzy.

We certainly see that Mehlman got some U2 tickets and probably Dave Mathews, and he was very closely tied to the scum, Jack Abramoff. But, the rest is real, real iffy at best. Here's the original article from Americablogspot.com:

Bush White House reportedly worked in support of sexual slavery in Asia as favor to Jack Abramoff
by John in DC - 10/16/2006 09:08:00 AM

Remember how just two years ago George Bush claimed he wanted to put a stop to human trafficking - i.e., women being forced into sexual slavery? Then why was the Bush administration's premiere advocate for stopping such sexual slavery forced out of his job a while back?

According to the Sunday Los Angeles Times, he was fired because convicted criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff was representing one of the countries that most profits from sexual slavery and human trafficking, the Northern Mariana Islands. Abramoff wanted this Bush administration official fired because the official's anti-human-trafficking agenda - now George Bush's agenda - posed a direct threat to Abramoff's pro-sex-slave client.

But Jack Abramoff doesn't have the power to fire a Bush administration official - all he can do is ask. Someone inside the Bush administration had to do Abramoff's dirty work and fire the official on behalf of Abramoff and his client. According to the Los Angeles Times, that someone was former senior Bush White House official, and now head of the Republican party, Ken Mehlman.

One of George Bush's top aides, the man who ran Bush's re-election campaign, and the man who thanks to George Bush now runs the Republican party, is also reportedly the man who fired a top Bush official in charge of stopping the international human sex slave trade because Jack Abramoff's clients like sex slaves.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/bush-white-house-reportedly-worked-in.html">---more---

Sorry, kids, but the dots don't necessarily connect. Abramoff is scum, and Mehlman is a political whore. No doubt about that. But the logic ends there. Inferring that Mehlman was somehow involved in sexual slavery cannot be justified by the information presented.

We do not advance our causes by presenting this kind of flawed hyperbole.