Ralph Reed took Casino Money from Abramoff to Defeat Anti-Gambling Measure

[ignatzmouse]

Reed fought ban on betting
Anti-gambling bill was defeated
Jim Galloway, Alan Judd - Staff
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sunday, October 2, 2005

Ralph Reed, who has condemned gambling as a "cancer on the American body politic," quietly worked five years ago to kill a proposed ban on Internet wagering --- on behalf of a company in the online gambling industry...

A spokesman for Reed said the political consultant fought the ban as a subcontractor to Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff's law firm. But he said Reed did not know "the specific client" that had hired Abramoff: eLottery Inc., a Connecticut-based company that wants to help state lotteries sell tickets online --- an activity the gambling measure would have prohibited.

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"It slips over being disingenuous," said the Rev. Tom Grey, executive director of the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling, who worked for the gambling ban. "Jack Abramoff was known as 'Casino Jack' at the time. If Jack's doling out tickets to this feeding trough, for Ralph to say he didn't know --- I don't believe that."

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Reed and Abramoff have been friends since the early 1980s. That's when Abramoff, as chairman of the national College Republicans organization, hired Reed to be his executive director. Later, Reed introduced Abramoff to the woman he married.


Full story: http://www.ajc.com/search/content/auto/epaper/editions/sunday/news_34f3d871d49151ac0077.html

And an editorial cartoon: http://www.ajc.com/search/content/opinion/luckovich/2005/100605.html

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Ralph Reed is currently running for Lt. Gov. in Diebold controlled Georgia. There are long range plans to puppet him into the Georgia Governor's office as a stepping stone for the Presidency. The former Christian Coalition executive director has worked closely as an adviser to the Bush White House and was the Chairman of the Southeast Region for Bush-Cheney ’04. As chairman of the Georgia Republican Party in 2002, Reed used a Rovian template to defeat Senator Max Cleland, a triple-amputee Vietnam veteran, by running ads accusing him un-patriotism in the build-up for the Iraq War. Similarly, he used race baiting to install the first Republican Governor in Georgia in 130 years by defeating GA Governor Roy Barnes who had removed the Confederate Stars and Bars on the state flag. The Republican Governor, Sonny Perdue, then promptly reneged on their lone campaign issue citing business interests by redesigning the state flag without the Confederate Battle flag. Reed is president of the ominous PNAC-reflecting political consulting firm Century Strategies based in Atlanta.

http://www.censtrat.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Home.Home

[Clark2008]

1. Gee - the Republican House of (Andrew) Cards just keeps on

falling apart!!

Wonderful, ain't it? :evilgrin:

[CottonBear]

2. I have an Anti-Reed info sheet about his pro-gambling lobbying

that I put on the windshields of cars with the fish symbols.

I'm in GA. I distributed a bunch of the leaflets at a local 4th of July event where Reed spoke. I'm ashamed to say that both Reed and Sonny Perdue are fellow UGA grads. They do not deserve to be Dawgs. They are beyond sleazy.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. Good For You!

Good for you! I wonder how well the fish-mobiles will receive the new data. Are the drivers of your targeted automobiles willing to investigate such claims, or will they accept Far Right denials at face value?

[burythehatchet]

4. Hey CB

I made a new flyer myself. Pictures of delay and reed with the caption "culture of corruption. If you PM me your e-mail addy I'll send you the file.

[ignatzmouse]

5. CottonBear, I salute you :-) (n/t)

[bluedawg12]

6. This is what is hard to defeat- the cronyism and lies and

corruption masquerading as conservative morality goes back to the 1980's.

We think we are up against another political party- it seems as if we are up against another country with in our own nation, entirely.

[ignatzmouse]

7. Framing Corruption

There is a media spin that this is a second-term complacency problem. Not. Most of the scandals have long trails behind them. It's the corrupt way things have been done in the Republican Party for a long time. It just happens to be catching up to them in fits.

[DemBones DemBones]

8. Too funny! I can't wait for all the dirt about

Abramoff, DeLay, Reed, etc., to come out.


Just a note: the Confederate "Stars and Bars" and the Confederate battle flag are two different flags. There were several official Confederate flags, including the Stars and Bars. Confederates also used the "Bonnie Blue flag" and, especially early on, the old Gadsden flag "Don't Tread on Me."

The Confederate battle flag is the one that has become controversial because the Klan started using it. Too bad, because it's a great looking flag that underdogs around the world have adopted as a symbol of rebellion.