Talent returns Abramoff contributions

Abramoff Scandal Engulfs Bond-Talent
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Submitted by Roy Temple on Wed, 10/19/2005 - 10:09am. Jim Talent
In 2001 and 2002, Senator Kit Bond’s top legislative priority was the passage of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), and his top political priority was trying to get Jim Talent elected to the United States Senate.


In the spring of 2002, Kit Bond used a shadowy fundraising committee, called the Missouri Millennium Fund, to pursue both goals simultaneously.
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The MMF was described in the Columbia Daily Tribune by one board member as “a political action committee created by Bond to raise money for GOP candidates in Missouri.” In 2002, the Missouri Republican Party was spending its time and money trying to get Jim Talent elected to the United States Senate.


In the spring and summer of 2002, Bond, via MMF, raised $30,000 from Indian gaming clients of Jack Abramoff, just as Abramoff was lobbying to get provisions benefiting his client in the legislation that Bond has stated repeatedly was his single biggest priority.
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Kit Bond,like John Ashcroft was a Missouri
Governor before becoming a Missouri Senator.

Give Back Abramoff's Money
Posted on Wednesday, March 31 @ 08:43:44 EST by SwansonAdmin

Following the revelations in the Washington Post of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff's receipt of $10 million in previously undisclosed payments from Michael Scanlon, a former spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom Delay, the Committee to ReDefeat the President called on legislators and PACs that have recently received contributions from Abramoff to give the money back. According to records available from the Center for Responsive Politics, this list includes: George W. Bush, Tom Delay, Johnny Isakson, Eric Cantor, John Ensign, Charles H. Taylor, Arlen Specter, Richard Pombo, Christopher S 'Kit' Bond, Jim Saxton, Tom Feeney, Jim Bunning, Ernest J. Istook, Chuck Grassley, Richard C. Shelby, Chris Cannon, Curt Weldon, Doug Ose, Dana Rohrabacher, George R Nethercutt, Jr., Americans for a Republican Majority, Hawkeye PAC, First Freedoms Fund, Republican Majority Fund, Rich PAC, Keep Our Majority PAC, Leadership PAC 2002, Senate Victory Fund, and Rely on Your Beliefs. Additional contributions from a Pam or Pamela Abramoff, listed sometimes as a homemaker and other times as an employee of Preston Gates & Ellis, have been made to Mark Foley, Eric Cantor, Johnny Isakson, Arlen Specter, and George W. Bush.
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