Poor tribes refuse Conrad Burns attempt to donate Abramoff money to them.

[NNadir]

HAVRE, Montana (Reuters) - Does anyone want Senator Conrad Burns' money?



More than a month ago, the Montana Republican said he would return about $150,000 in campaign contributions from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty in early January in a U.S. corruption probe, and from Indian tribes.

When that plan failed, the senator tried to give away the money to Indian tribes in the American West that have not realized huge profits from the advent of casino gambling.

That didn't work either. Calling the funds "tainted," the Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council have rejected a donation of $111,000 from Burns. No other takers had appeared as of Monday, his campaign manager said.

Tribal leaders in Montana and Wyoming fear the impact Abramoff's dealings with wealthy tribes in other parts of the country will have on them.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060123/us_nm/crime_abramoff_indians_dc_1

[ewoden]

1. he he he the feces is pretty hard to wash one's hands of n/t

[XOKCowboy]

2. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

:rofl:

Good for the Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council. All money ain't good money and they know it. This is making Burns look real bad up in Montana.

[NNadir]

3. I wonder how Burns is doing in the polls.

[natrat]

5. sad part is polls probably not beating him up too bad

which way is up

[havocmom]

4. That tribal council's ONLY registered lobbyist is a former Burns aide!

Guess they got to wondering how it would look? Perhaps they got to wondering if their organization might be used for $$ laundering. They were wisely concerned it might look that way.

There are several threads in the Montana forum if you all would be interested in more about Burns and how much he is fucking up of late. One or two threads have links to Billngs Gazette articles and the Gazette has been running a really good index of links to articles, multi media and documents.

Here's Gazette story with index of links.

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/19/build/state/30-burns-tribalmoney.inc