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POPSObama Ad Links McCain, Abramoff Pretty straight forward. It'll be hard for McCain to weasel out of this one -- although there won't be any shortage of media figures willing to help him along. I'd like to see this followed up with McCain's ties to lobbyists and the way he swaps positions for campaign cash. Someone's got to cut that "straight talkin' maverick" BS out from under him.
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POPSTop McCain Fundraiser Tied to Abramoff "Mr. Benitez received a fee of $125,000 per month from the taxpayers of Guam, to arrange meetings that the taxpayers of the United States and Guam were already paying his wife to undertake," we're told. The piece goes on: The four-person lobbying team Benitez put together for the Guam account also included two men, David DiStefano and Roy Coffee, who were closely involved at the same time with the now-disgraced Rep. Bob Ney. Ney pleaded guilty in 2006 to corruption charges related to his dealings both with Jack Abramoff and with a shadowy European firm called FN Aviation. DiStefano, a former Ney chief of staff, and Coffee, who had been part of George W. Bush's staff when he was governor of Texas, both worked for FN Aviation in 2003 and also donated generously to Ney's campaign. NYT's " The Caucus " has more...
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POPSMoyers: Conservatives had their chance and Blew it!
On top of such bungled calamities as Iraq and Katrina… GEORGE W. BUSH: Again I want to thank you all for- and Brownie you're doing a heck of a job. BILL MOYERS: The conservative regime sent spending into the stratosphere…borrowed trillions from the future to pay for their agenda, and rewarded their wealthy base with huge tax cuts. Earmarks and contracts fattened lobbyists on K Street, which Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay honed into a ruthless shakedown machine exploited by conservative movement stars like Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed, and Jack Abramoff. JACK ABRAMOFF: Senator, I respectfully invoke the privileges previously stated. SEN. KENT CONRAD: And I'd say to you Mr. Abramoff, shame on you. BILL MOYERS: And after crusading for the impeachment of Bill Clinton, conservatives pushing family values turned out to be their own worst enemies. Some of their foot soldiers in politics and the religious right were outed for adultery, stalking Capitol Hill pages, soliciting sex. Be
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POPSEMAIL: Tell Congress: Sign The Earmark Reform Pledge! Current signatories as of 3/13/08: Senators Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) Reps. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), John Campbell (R-Calif.), Tom Feeney (R-Fla.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), Tom Price (R-Ga.), Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), and John Shadegg (R-Ariz.). Thanks to the more than 25,000 e-mails CCAGW members like you sent to Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last Friday pulled the Climate Security Act after falling a dozen votes short of the 60 needed to end debate and bring the bill up for a vote!
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POPS McCain, Like Janus, The Two-Faced Roman God
"Wouldn't it be great if you get a chance to name somebody like Roberts and Alito?" one lawyer commented. McCain replied, "Well, certainly Roberts." Jaws were described as dropping. My sources cannot remember exactly what McCain said next, but their recollection is that he described Alito as too conservative. Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist is worried about a prominent journalist informing him that McCain a few years ago said to him, off the record, that as president he would have to raise taxes. McCain more recently has told me, on the record, he never would support a tax increase and, consequently, favors making permanent the Bush tax cuts. As Senate Indian Affairs Committee chairman, McCain in 2005 subpoenaed records of Norquist's dealings with Republican Jack Abramoff. Norquist said McCain held a grudge against him for campaigning against the senator's 2000 presidential bid. Norquist told me he has no personal animus and only wants assurance that McCain opposes higher taxes
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POPSGOP Trying To Rig Election In California Again
Republican dirty-trickster Dave Gillard, CalCounts Campaign Manager is leading effort to collect the 500,000 signatures to put electoral vote change initiative on the California ballot. But in a new low even for the party of DeLay and Abramoff, GOP activists in California are gathering signatures by publicly pushing two benign initiatives to disguise the intentions of the third they really want. We're trying to have money for children's hospitals and funding for child disease research and we have two other petitions, the last one , we're trying to redistrict the electoral college. Rick Jacobs, founder & chair of Courage Campaign said, Our job is to make sure that everybody in the state knows that it's a simple dirty trick. "The mere idea that they would stoop so low to use children's cancer as the bait to get people to sign a petition, says everything. It's outrageous, absolutely outrageous Let's all make sure that Californians reject this blatant attempt
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POPSWrong answer... ...again. This administration hasn't given us a straight answer since its beginning. Frankly, I know that they are using every dirty tactic, every squirmy lie, every illegal detail to keep the people from seeing the truth. I lived through the Nixon era and am proud that I protested his schemes because that was the right way to do things. I guess nothing changes except the names and faces.
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POPSFormer aid to GOP rep to plead guilty Mark Zachares, a former aid to Republican Representative Don Young (AK) is set to plead guilty to corruption charges. Zachares is accused of essentially agreeing to be a plant for Jack Abramoff in Congress, steering business Abramoff's way. After Zachares left Congress, he was to be rewarded by Abramoff by being paid as a lobbying with a high salary.
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