Ralph Reed's Gamble (Accepted laundered gambling money)

[onehandle]

When Ralph Reed was the boyish director of the Christian Coalition, he made opposition to gambling a major plank in his "family values" agenda, calling gambling "a cancer on the American body politic" that was "stealing food from the mouths of children." But now, a broad federal investigation into lobbying abuses connected to gambling on Indian reservations has unearthed evidence that Reed has been surreptitiously working for an Indian tribe with a large casino it sought to protect--and that Reed was paid with funds laundered through two firms to try to keep his lucrative involvement secret. Reed has always operated behind the scenes, and apparently he didn't want to risk becoming a humbled hypocrite like his right-wing cohorts William Bennett and Rush Limbaugh.

News accounts of the emerging scandal have focused on the two main figures under investigation: lawyer/lobbyist Jack Abramoff and Mike Scanlon, House GOP majority leader Tom DeLay's former spokesman and head of two campaign and public relations companies. But Reed has managed to slither below the media's radar--until now.

Neither he, Abramoff or Scanlon returned phone calls.

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Reed is in charge of Bush's 2004 election campaign in the Southeast, including Florida. In 2000, he was paid almost $3.7 million for helping Bush. In 1995, when he was still exploiting intolerance and fear, Time did a story on him that included the cover line "The right hand of God." Today God's right hand seems to be holding dice and a bloody political hatchet.

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20040712&s=newfield

[struggle4progress]

1. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=646525

[onehandle]

3. Oops.

I thought this had just shown up at The Nation. Only searched back three days.

Oh, well.

[struggle4progress]

7. I post duplicates myself. eom

[Justice]

2. McCain Must Be Thinking - Payback Is Sweet

You have to ask yourself how Ralph Reed thinks he is going to get to heaven, cuz he is one bad lying, greedy, rumor spreading dude.

[MaryH]

4. Ralph Reed

I think if you would scratch the surface you would find that most of these guys live two or three lives. Now if we could just catch him with prostitutes - like Jimmy Swaggert. That would be too funny.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

5. May your ass be tortured (literally) in prison, you hypocrite Xtian Repuke

Ralph Reed is the poster child for hypocrite bullshit Xtians. And, people wonder why there's a negative sentiment towards self-righteous Xtians and their ilk in the Repuke party...

JB

[MaryH]

6. Yes, But he Looks Right

He is just the wholesome, all-American Boy from the wonderful 1950's family.

Underneath, he is just another swearing, wierd sex-type Republican.

[Neshanic]

8. Please, please, please, let this be this guy's undoing.

He is the personification in all possible ways of the hideous Born-Again Republican. Like another posted, for him to be passed around in prison for a pack of smokes would be reward from the pig head on a stick he prays to in private.