How a Lobbyist Stacked the Deck
Abramoff Used DeLay Aide, Attacks On Allies to Defeat Anti-Gambling Bill

...Abramoff had deep roots in the conservative movement and rose to prominence by helping Republicans tap traditionally Democratic K Street lobbyists for campaign dollars. But in the eLottery fight, he employed a win-at-any-cost strategy that went so far as to launch direct-mail attacks on vulnerable House conservatives.
Abramoff quietly arranged for eLottery to pay conservative, anti-gambling activists to help in the firm's $2 million pro-gambling campaign, including Ralph Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition, and the Rev. Louis P. Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition. Both kept in close contact with Abramoff about the arrangement, e-mails show. Abramoff also turned to prominent anti-tax conservative Grover Norquist, arranging to route some of eLottery's money for Reed through Norquist's group, Americans for Tax Reform.
At one point, eLottery's backers even circulated a forged letter of support from Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R)... http://tinyurl.com/by99w
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This is a jaw-droppingly incredible article about some of our favorite 'values' party stalwarts. What should be done about these people? Maybe something like what they used to do in South Africa to people who collaborated with the Apartheid government. It involved gasoline soaked tires and open flames. Or maybe a brief but definitive period like that which followed the liberation in France when they had to deal with the people who'd collaborated with Vichy and the Nazi occupiers. It could make a great extreme reality tv show...
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