quote:The former president of the U.S. Family Network said Buckham told him that Russians contributed $1 million to the group in 1998 specifically to influence DeLay's vote on legislation the International Monetary Fund needed to finance a bailout of the collapsing Russian economy.
Posted by Silkie (Member # 8853) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lavalamp: "legal" as in "it's technically legal, but smells really bad."
quote:The former president of the U.S. Family Network said Buckham told him that Russians contributed $1 million to the group in 1998 specifically to influence DeLay's vote on legislation the International Monetary Fund needed to finance a bailout of the collapsing Russian economy.
I think what is going to 'get' him and several other corrupt lawmakers is the Abramoff scandal.
quote: Mostly Republicans
Between 2001 and 2004, Abramoff joined with his former partner, Michael Scanlon, and tribal clients to give money to a third of the members of Congress, including former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, according to records of the Federal Election Commission and Internal Revenue Service. At least 171 lawmakers got $1.4 million in campaign donations from the group. Republicans took in most of the money, with 110 lawmakers getting $942,275, or 66 percent of the total.
Of the top 10 political donors among Indian tribes in that period, three are former clients of Abramoff and Scanlon: the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of California. All three gave most of their donations to Republicans - by margins of 30 percentage points or more - while the rest favored Democrats.
It's a witch hunt! A witch hunt, I tells you! That poor Mr. Delay being hunted down by Dems. Posted by Ryan Hart (Member # 5513) on :
He's dirty, but so is the rest of Congress. I think he is both guilty and the victim of politics. He never would have been indicted if the house republicans hadn't revolted.
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