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Poster boy for GOP moral values is falling...crashing...and burning |
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/06/ralph-reed-mighty-is.html
Friday, June 23, 2006
Ralph Reed: the mighty is falling...crashing...and burning
by Joe in DC
Back in the 90s, Ralph Reed was portrayed as the poster boy for GOP
moral values.
He was a Republican kingmaker.
In return, the GOP was putting him in their pipeline to leadership --
starting with the Lieutenant Governor's office in Georgia.
In reality, he's just another one of the 21st century poster boys for
GOP corruption:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/washington/23abramoff.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
A bipartisan Senate report released on Thursday documented more than
$5.3 million in payments to Ralph Reed, the former director of the
Christian Coalition and a leading Republican Party strategist, from an
influence-peddling operation run by the corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff
on behalf of Indian tribe casinos.
The report by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee portrayed Mr. Reed,
now a candidate for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor
in his home state of Georgia, as a central figure in Mr. Abramoff's
lobbying operation, the focus of a criminal investigation by the
Justice Department.
Mr. Reed was depicted as having used his contacts among conservative
Christian groups in the South and Southwest beginning in the late
1990's to block the opening or expansion of casinos that might compete
with the gambling operations of Mr. Abramoff's clients.
Ralph Reed really is the face of the GOP.
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R.I.P. corrupt GOP poster boy.
Harry
(see all of Harry Hope's excellent posts as they break, put this link
in your browser, use it, this is a search on google groups, on the
author Harry Hope sorted by date... nothing fancy):
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=&start=0&scoring=d&enc_author=-nIhFBQAAACtBOUGAhN9cSve8yYdFJBuOPANdqfI6prRsqjc7uCt1A&
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