From The Associated Press, 6/19/05:
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/11930375.htm

Source of funds at issue
Gambling interests paid Ralph Reed, some critics allege
The Associated Press
ATLANTA --

For two decades, Ralph Reed made his mark as a squeaky-clean political
operator and a driving force behind the Christian right.

Now he is trying to get himself into elected office amid allegations
that he accepted money from the same gambling interests he once called
"a cancer on the American body politic."

Reed, former organizer for the Christian Coalition and adviser to
presidential campaigns, is seeking to become Georgia's first
Republican lieutenant governor since Reconstruction.

The post is a largely powerless one that could serve as a
steppingstone to higher office.

The election is more than a year away, with incumbent Democrat Mark
Taylor vacating the seat to run for governor, but already Reed is
raising money and assembling a team.

To some, the big question facing Reed is whether there is a conflict
between the anti-gambling beliefs he espoused as executive director of
the Christian Coalition and the money he collected later as a
political consultant.

The firm Reed started after leaving the Christian Coalition was hired
from 1999 through 2002 to build public support for closing an Indian
casino in Texas and to fight a proposed state lottery in Alabama.

The casino was shuttered; the lottery was defeated.

Now there are news reports that Reed's work -- arranged by longtime
lobbyist friend and public relations specialist Jack Abramoff, who is
under investigation in Washington for allegedly defrauding Indian
tribe clients -- was secretly funded by gambling interests seeking to
stifle competition.

Reed says he was assured that the money did not come from gambling.

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