Abramoff's "lobbying team logged nearly 200 meetings ..." AP article:

[cyberpj]

DUers better save this AP article for posterity - can't find it online too much anymore, perhaps it's being deleted? Dunno. But here it is/was on May 01, 2006 (pertinent info is in these last 4 paragraphs of the article):

snip...

A few days after Bush made the remarks about the photo, Abramoff expressed surprise in e-mails to a magazine editor about the president's faulty memory. Abramoff told the Washingtonian magazine that he had met with Bush nearly a dozen times and that Bush knew him well enough to joke with him.

Three former business associates of Abramoff also told The Associated Press that Abramoff often mentioned White House adviser Karl Rove when talking about his influence inside the White House.

Abramoff was a $100,000 fundraiser for Bush and lobbying records obtained by the AP show his lobbying team logged nearly 200 meetings with the administration during its first 10 months in office on behalf of one of his clients, the Northern Mariana Islands.

The contacts between Abramoff's team and the administration included meetings with Attorney General John Ashcroft and policy advisers to Vice President Dick Cheney, the AP reported last year.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/14474586.htm

[cyberpj]

1. Here's one from USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-06-abramoff-bush_x.htm

snip...
The records from Abramoff's firm, obtained by The Associated Press from the Marianas under an open records request, chronicle Abramoff's careful cultivation of relations with Bush's political team as far back as 1997.

[cyberpj]

6. morning kick.

[Independent_Liberal]

2. K&R!

I'm getting my popcorn ready!

:popcorn:

[Sydnie]

4. Me too

I think I might get some gourmet stuff and start popping something special ... an Abramoff blend!

[robbedvoter]

3. I read WaPo said there were only 2 visits- cut off the zeroes

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x209697

[Scout1071]

5. Caught that this afternoon:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1150608&mesg_id=1151080

But thanks for bringing attention to it!