**McCain accepted 100K from Abramoff firm and hid controversial email**

[cynatnite]

"Ask Jack Abramoff if I'm an insider in Washington," McCain often contends. "You'd probably have to go during visiting hours in the prison, and he'll tell you and his lobbyist cronies of the change I made there."

But how much change did McCain actually effect? And is he all that removed from Washington's special interests?

A review of campaign finance filings shows that the Arizona Republican has accepted more than $100,000 in donations from employees of Greenberg Traurig, the very firm where Abramoff once reigned.

Those donations include several thousand dollars from registered lobbyists who represent, or have represented, businesses such as NewsCorp, Rupert Murdoch's media empire; Spi Spirits, a Cyprus based company that has fought with the Russian government for the rights to the Stolichnaya vodka brand name; El Paso Corp, a major energy company; General Motors; and the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, a group of businesses and trade associations "concerned" about the shortage of lesser skilled and unskilled labor.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/12/mccain-received-100000-_n_86245.html

And more....

A little-known document, however, shows that McCain may have taken steps to protect his Republican colleagues from the scope of his investigation.

In the 2006 Senate report concerning Abramoff's activities, which McCain spearheaded, the Arizona Republican conspicuously left out information detailing how Alabama Gov. Bob Riley was targeted by Abramoff's influence peddling scheme. Riley, a Republican, won election in November 2002, and was reelected in 2006.

In a December 2002 email obtained by the Huffington Post -- which McCain and his staff had access to prior to the issuance of his report -- Abramoff explains to an aide what he would like to see Riley do in return for the "help" he received from Abramoff's tribal clients.

An official with the Mississippi Choctaws "definitely wants Riley to shut down the Poarch Creek operation," Abramoff wrote, "including his announcing that anyone caught gambling there can't qualify for a state contract or something like that."

The note showed not only the reach of Abramoff, but raised questions about Riley's victory in what was the closest gubernatorial election in Alabama history.

And yet, despite the implications of the information, McCain and the Senate Indian Affairs Committee sat on the controversial portion of the email. According to an official familiar with the investigation, McCain also subsequently refused to make the email public after the report was released.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/25/mccain-withheld-controver_n_88304.html

[eleny]

1. Eyooops!

[glitch]

2. It just never ends with these people does it? K & R

No wonder the Republicans vetted McCain, he's got the "chops" to lead their party.

[billyoc]

13. Oh, no. Nowhere does their larceny end.

[kevinmc]

3. Pray for a contant stream of this kind of stuff through Nov. n/t

[blondeatlast]

4. B-b-b-b-but Hillary said something mildly distasteful and Barack went to church

where a pastor said something mildly distasteful!

K and R (I wish I could do it many times)

[DCKit]

9. Jeebus, you HillBama haters just can't get enough!!!!

Just kidding, but I thought YOU would understand. If we can't make fun of ourselves, who would we laugh at? Der Chimp is too series and "Teh Dick" is unimpeachable.

[KamaAina]

5. Remember who it was that Riley defeated

None other than Don Siegelman.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3348950&mesg_id=3348950

Karl Rove saying he's had nothing to do with firing U.S. Attorneys and nothing to do with my case is like President Bush saying he's had nothing to do with the war in Iraq because he hasn't pulled a trigger," said Siegelman.

The comments came just one day after Rove said his involvement in le affaire Siegelman consisted of learning about the investigations in a newspaper article. The former governor, who was sentenced to more than seven years in prison in 2006, wasn't exactly sold on the line.

"I think Rove is probably the most devious and evil political operative who has been trained to come on to the political scene in certainly the last fifty years," he said. "I can't think of anybody in the annals of history who could even rival this man's pernicious thoughts. It is a lifetime's work for him... I think he learned two things from Watergate: you don't need to establish a secret plumbers union at a mid level office in the White House when you can take over Department of Justice and have them do your dirty work for you, and secondly, you don't leave tapes behind, you destroy evidence."

. . . . . . . . . Connect the dots.

[robinlynne]

11. That makes it bigger!

[stlsaxman]

19. oh......... my........... gawd.........

them dots DO connect!

[LiberalFighter]

22. Well Bush didn't pull that trigger

But he did wear the flight suit and pull the trigger in his crotch.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

6. k&r, for an important piece real news getting buried by Father Pfleger propaganda

[williesgirl]

7. Why do we hear about the bs pastor's comments and nothing on this? I'm pissed. Send to KO. rec'd

[ColbertWatcher]

8. It's about time HuffPo catches up with DailyKos.

DailyKos and the lovely graph below came out in January.

Not that I'm complaining, this should be discussed until November.

[DCKit]

10. Wait until Obama *makes* this "teh newz".

This is going to be the ugliest election evah. Another reason why the guy with no experience (AND NO HISTORY) is our best bet.

"You want to talk with Hammas?" is about all they've got on him and Amurika ain't buyin' it.

[lonestarnot]

12. With the possibility of 4 appointments to SCOTUS, they are not going to give up easily.

And all that money they're stealing, they're sure going to miss dat if they lose.

[WhiteTara]

29. not to mention jail terms

that are sure to follow.

[NewJeffCT]

18. Huffington Post is more "mainstream" than Kos, though

so if it makes it to HuffPo, then it will more likely get into the mainstream.

And, if it was on Kos in January, it means it might have been on DU in December...

[ColbertWatcher]

30. Is there a chart showing...

...how news moves through the internets?

[TaffyMoon]

14. McCain`s A Crooked Old Man, Since Forever.

[Hubert Flottz]

15. K&R

Dishonest John's sins will find him out...

[Dr.Phool]

16. Kick this hard!

"Honest John" is a corrupt old man.

[xchrom]

17. recommending with glee!

[kitfalbo]

20. Does not matter

Until MSM talks about this hippocracy it won't matter.. It's the low information voters that need to know this and MSM talks to them and gives them no real information. Screwing the smart ones.

[libnnc]

21. Well, well, well, well, well, well...

WELL. WELL!

Whadda know about them apples?

Gramps has some 'splaining to do



:bounce:

[OwnedByFerrets]

23. K and R

[fascisthunter]

24. Oh My... What a Shame. McCain sure is a Corrupt Individual

how could anybody think of voting for this guy?

[Divine Discontent]

25. DOUBLE WHAMMY?!

SO, not only did he take 100K from the dirty guys, he helped protect the guy that took Siegelman's governor job????


DAYAMMM! That's a big weekend news dump, but this one will be brought up again and again, and should in the debate questioning!!!


KICK

AND

REC!


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[L. Coyote]

26. Abramoff and Kark Rove Linked to Prosecution of Ex-Alabama Governor and Campaign Finances

This is what McCain was covering up (Jun-01-07 = old news on DU):

Abramoff and Kark Rove Linked to Prosecution of Ex-Alabama Governor and Campaign Finances
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1023111

[Raksha]

27. K & R n/t

[sofa king]

28. The Poarch Creek are gonna be PISSED.

And they are not the tribe one picks first to mess with. The Poarch Band of Creeks, like over a hundred tribes across the nation, were overlooked for most of the 20th Century because they hadn't caused enough trouble to gain the attention of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Then in the 1950s a tireless fellow named Calvin McGhee started raising hell--for twenty years. He raised the spectre of land claims against the state of Alabama, and the Band put together superb documentation to prove that they were, in fact, a sovereign Indian tribe, beating back typically racist opposition from the governments of Alabama and Mississippi. The case is still studied today by those who fight for the federal recognition of other tribes.

They'll be out for blood now, and will almost certainly be willing to talk to anyone regarding McCain's white-wash of the Abramoff fiasco.

What's never mentioned in all of this is that the Mississippi Choctaws enjoyed their relationship with Jack Abramoff because they were already tight with Trent Lott. I don't know how Lott escaped the Abramoff fallout when everyone knows that the MCs are his favorite (and perhaps only) cross-cultural interest, but somehow he has.

[Disturbed]

31. McLame is as corupt as his pal Dudya , maybe even more.

[myrna minx]

32. Kick n.t