Knight-Ridder article links Harry Reid to Abramoff.

[yodermon]

What is the real scoop here, people? I grow weary of how this faux balancing act continues to trump the truth.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/13541679.htm

...The scandal threatens to engulf several high-ranking lawmakers from both major political parties :eyes:, including:

- Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, the chairman of the House Administration Committee, whose Web page identifies him as the "11th most powerful member of Congress." He took a golf trip to Scotland on Abramoff's tab, but says he did nothing wrong.

- Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, who was forced to step down last fall as House majority leader when he was indicted on a campaign-finance charge that isn't related to the Abramoff case. DeLay denies any wrongdoing in taking overseas trips financed by Abramoff. His spokesman said Tuesday that all of DeLay's actions were approved by the House ethics committee.

- Rep. John Doolittle, R-Calif., the secretary of the House Republican Conference, who took campaign contributions from Abramoff and whose wife was hired by an Abramoff foundation. Doolittle denies that his intervention in a California Indian casino case, which would've helped Abramoff, was connected to his relations to the lobbyist.

- Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., the Senate minority leader, who's denied that his intercession in an Indian-casino case that would've helped Abramoff was linked to a $5,000 contribution from an Abramoff client.
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edited to remove stupidity

[Rainscents]

1. This has been debunked!

[TayTay]

2. Repub plan: confuse, confuse, confuse

Why bribe the Dems? What power did they hold? This is the standard Rethug plan when they get in trouble: throw up as much mud as possible and try to get it to tar Dems and confuse the public.

This is a Republican scandal and republican corruption.

[trotsky]

3. At this point, I don't really care.

Let the chips fall where they may. Democrats SHOULD be calling for investigations into EVERYONE. Reid, if anything, got money from a CLIENT that Abramoff SWINDLED. That does not make him guilty of anything, and an investigation will bear that out.

[seabeyond]

4. he is the only dem that has my eye. he has also made the statement

he is not involved. there is also a vote. i tend to htink he isnt involved from what i am hearing. but i will have to wait and see, along with most of us. twice he has refuted this. once was a while ago and he was very forceful and made a flat out statement this was wrong and those involved should be punished.

[Virginian]

5. from an Abramoff client - but not from Abramoff himself.

I'm sure he had lots of clients and some of them may have made donations of their own, having no relationship to this scandal.

[papau]

7. Of money from 20 tribes, perhaps a half dozen were Abramoff clients

Granted they - Abramoffs - were the casino - meaning large - contributors.

But Knight Rider has run off the rails and indeed can point to no Abramoff requested vote.

[Spazito]

9. Exactly!

This meme by the right wing will be shot down but the inference that the dems were involved will remain in the public's mind unless it is publicly and strongly shot down, imo.

[papau]

11. Chart below shows not a dime of his own money going to Democrats

[Spazito]

6. Receiving contributions from the Indian tribes is legal

from what I have read and, as the tribes have long contributed to dems, does NOT impugn Reid as being part of the Abramoff scandal, imo, unless his votes and position changed after receiving the monies from what he had supported prior to the contribution.

I find the desperate attempt by the media to tar and feather democrats as equal partners with the republicans on the Abramoff scandal/crimes is beyond pathetic.

[blm]

8. Steve Thomma tends to spin for BushInc when things look bad. What a

disgrace to the normally objective DC bureau at KR.

[zbdent]

10. Knight-Ridder is trying to sell off its papers

and has made sure that it will only be picked up by the uber-rich intent on keeping Repukes in control . . . they refused to let unions bid on any single newspaper . . . they would sell the entire unit as one whole piece, or the bid is off . . .