Reply #10: Unbearable back-stabbing actions described at the end of the article

[Judi Lynn]

The Tigua Indians of Texas,which had their Speaking Rock Casino in El Paso shut down in February 2002 when a federal court sided with state officials in ruling the casino violated state anti-gambling laws. The Washington Post reported that Abramoff and Scanlon, representing a rival tribal casino in Louisiana, quietly worked with former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed to build public sentiment against the Tiguas, then persuaded the Tiguas to hire them to try to get the casino reopened.
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Can you BELIEVE this kind of vicious nastiness? I would think this alone would win them spots in the Republican Hall of Fame.

Check this drivel written about scuzzbucket Jack Abramoff, written around a year and a half ago:

“I’m the only lobbyist who took a 90 percent pay cut to join the lobbying field,” a smiling Abramoff said in his downtown office this month. But he doesn’t expect sympathy — with the Republicans now in control of the White House, House and Senate, and his friend Tom DeLay (R-Texas) controlling the House agenda, Abramoff does not have to look far to find clients interested in his services.

But, he stresses, being a leader in Republican fundraising and strategy doesn’t guarantee success for his clients.

“I think it’s a very different administration … compared to the Clinton days,” Abramoff said of George W. Bush’s White House. “They’re going to go out of the way to make sure that they are not courting special favors to lobbyists and to special interests. They’ll only agree to things on strict merits.

“From a good government point of view, that’s very refreshing. From a lobbying point of view, it’s obviously more of a challenge.”

Because of that, he says, many lobbyists are turning more and more to members of Congress rather than executive agencies. “What people have done is probably tried to utilize the congressional legislative route on many more things than they would have otherwise done,” Abramoff added. “In the past, I think you could have gone to the Clinton administration and gotten an administrative or executive fix on something that now people have to go to Hill and try to seek redress there.”
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http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2004/local/20040930004411.shtml

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Pathetic imitations of human beings, these Republicans. The resemblance is only superficial.