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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-26-05 12:09 AM
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Senatorial Courtesy: Will John McCain Let Republican Perps Walk?
August 26, 2005

n September 29, 2004, Arizona Senator John McCain made a promise to six Indian tribes defrauded in an $82-million lobby billing scandal perpetrated by two close associates of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay: “To the aggrieved tribes and Native Americans generally, I say rest assured that this committee’s investigation is far from over. Together we will get to the bottom of this.”

At the time, McCain probably meant what he said. But if he is to be a viable candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, he may have to slow down the investigation he began a year ago. Because at “the bottom” of the inquiry McCain directs from the chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee is a second scandal that extends beyond the $82 million Mike Scanlon and Jack Abramoff took from the six tribes they were working for. Abramoff and Scanlon did more than enrich themselves. They enriched the Republican Party. The two Washington political operatives moved millions out of the accounts of the Indian tribes and into the accounts of Republican campaigns and advocacy groups whose support McCain will need for a presidential run in 2008. The personal contributions they made, such as the $500,000 check Scanlon wrote to the Republican National Governors Association in 2002, were derived from illicit billings of Indian clients.

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I_Make_Mistakes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-26-05 01:07 AM
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1. He is working a thin line
You say, you pay?
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geckosfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-26-05 08:47 AM
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2. He just needs some mud to throw at DeLay. This will slowly die down
and be somewhat revived in '06 and '08.
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