So have we located any Abramoff Bush photos yet?

Been looking myself...

http://www.ditto.com/default.aspx

it pulled up different images than were on google

See link for original story. Original title was: A scandalous threesome: Chimpy, DeLay and Abramoff

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.pamspaulding.com/weblog/2005/05/scandalous-threesome-chimpy-delay-and.html&h=345&w=291&sz=57&tbnid=Hf-mRpPLsFAJ:&tbnh=116&tbnw=97&hl=en&start=85&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dphoto%2Babramoff%2B%26start%3D80%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

They shouldn't be doing the superdupersecret
skull n bones handshake in public.. should they????

A very odd photo from May 2005. I thought it might be the bugman.

:rofl:

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/27/news-dubose.php





Lonely Pioneers
Bush gives the boot to two of his richest pals in Texas
by Lou Dubose



Remember Ken Lay?

He’s the former Enron CEO whom state Attorney General Bill Lockyer told The Wall Street Journal he wanted locked in a prison cell with a tattooed inmate named “Spike.” He’s not there yet. At least, the lights were on last week at his 33rd-floor, $7 million condo in Houston’s River Oaks — even if he hasn’t been seen at his Galveston Bay beach house. Both places offer better accommodations than he’ll find if he ends up at the Bastrop federal detention center, where white, white-collar guys do their time in Texas. Lay’s days might be numbered. Prosecutors are working their way up the corporate food chain, and Lay’s the last big potato to be peeled.

President Bush would like to forget Ken Lay. He’s been airbrushed out of the Bush transition team, where he helped President-elect Bush shape a national energy policy. (Try to find his name on the White House Web site.) But his name can’t be stricken from the roster of Bush Pioneers. The Pioneers are the most successful fund-raising operation in the history of politics, says Craig McDonald, who runs an Austin-based nonprofit that tracks political money. Lay was an original Pioneer, one of hundreds of dedicated fund-raisers who pledge to raise $100,000 for the Bush presidential campaign. In fact, Lay was a pioneer among the Pioneers. He raised more than $750,000 for Bush’s gubernatorial and presidential campaigns.

The Pioneers came into being in 1999. Bush was governor of Texas. Condi Rice and former Secretary of State George Schultz were at the Governor’s Mansion home-schooling Bush on foreign-policy issues — an evident failure considering what he has done in Iraq and failed to do in Israel and the Palestinian territories. (One spring afternoon I bumped into a dyspeptic Schultz leaving a tutoring session with the governor, and the man looked like he carried the weight of the entire world on his stomach.) While the foreign-policy wonks were tutoring the candidate, Karl Rove and Donnie Evans (a Midland oil-patch buddy with whom Bush had found Jesus in a men’s Bible study group) directed the fund-raising operation. Rove has always said the first race to be won is “the money primary,” which he decided to wrap up early so Bush would look like the inevitable winner of the Republican nomination. Evans, the chair of the fund-raising committee and now secretary of commerce, called a meeting of three other Bush associates in Midland. Together they came up with the idea of the Pioneers. The group might have been more accurately named “the Deputies,” because what Bush fund-raising chair Evans did was deputize hundreds of individuals, giving each of them the authority to raise money in the name of the Bush campaign.

Each pioneer would raise $100,000, for which they would get in return a modest reward: the right to purchase a pair of special Lone Star cuff links. (And perhaps an ambassadorship, a change in a specific public policy or, as in Ken Lay’s particular case, the authority to fire the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulation Commission, name his replacement and a commissioner to fill another seat, and secure a promise that energy prices would not be capped in states such as California. Much of this is laid out in a Washington Post investigative series.) The Pioneers increased fund-raising exponentially, fostering the sky-is-the-limit approach that brought in $41 million for Bush’s two campaigns for governor. Here in Texas, any individual can give any amount as long as it is disclosed to the Texas Ethics Commission. In elections for federal office, individuals were limited to $1,000 per person per candidate. (The maximum has since been raised to $2,000.) The plan Evans and company put together in Midland was the perfect mechanism to beat the $1,000 contribution limit. The big guys with the big Rolodexes are no longer limited to bundling $1,000 contributions of a few family members and friends. They get on the phone, raise 100 $1,000 contributions, and mail in the checks.


much much more :)

If you can find it, you might have a pretty good answer to your question.

Abramoff Helped Indian Leaders Meet Bush

June 8, 2005

Lovelin Poncho, who is stepping down after 20 years as Coushatta tribal chairman, recalled meeting with Bush for about 15 minutes, his attorney said. An itinerary said the meeting was in the Old Executive Office Building, next to the White House. Poncho recalls Abramoff also attended, said the lawyer, who spoke on condition he not be named.

The White House has no record of the Coushattas or Abramoff at the May 9, 2001, meeting, spokeswoman Erin Healy said. Records show representatives from the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas and the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana met with Bush, along with 21 state legislators, Healy said.

Officials for the Kickapoo and Chitimacha tribes didn't return calls seeking comment.

Bryant Rogers, an attorney for the Choctaws, said e-mails initially sent to the Choctaw tribe did not mention a White House meeting. Instead, Abramoff solicited the contribution as support for the ongoing anti-tax efforts of Americans for Tax Reform.

"The Choctaws contributed $25,000, viewing this as support for a general series of anti-tax meetings that (Americans for Tax Reform) had routinely sponsored. However, neither Chief Martin nor any other tribal representative was present at any of these meetings on May 9, and in particular didn't go to the White House meeting," Rogers said.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/6/8/92307.shtml

White House Admits President Met with Abramoff
May 6, 2005


WASHINGTON, DC – Amid new revelations about the extensive contacts between Jack Abramoff and the Bush administration, including at least one meeting with President Bush, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean reiterated his call for President Bush to return all the money that the scandal-plagued lobbyist raised for the President’s campaign fund.

Yesterday, a White House spokesperson acknowledged to the Associated Press that the President “had met on occasion” with Abramoff.

http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/05/white_house_adm.php

Yesterday, a White House spokesperson acknowledged to the Associated Press that the President "had met on occasion" with Abramoff. In addition, Abramoff's records indicates that he made at least 200 "contacts" with members of the Bush administration, including then-Attorney General John Ashcroft and senior members of Vice President Cheney's staff.

Abramoff also bragged to his clients about his success in placing his own employees into Bush administration jobs including David Safavian, now in charge of all government procurement at the General Services Administration and Patrick Pizzella, formerly a Marianas lobbyist and currently a Deputy Secretary of Labor. Even Abramoff's personal assistant, Susan Ralston, later became Karl Rove's personal assistant.


David Safavian, he's been indicted, hasn't he? Resigned in disgrace, didn't he?

*yes, corpse, that bunch of floating deadwood, for the most part

I gave the credit to you but misspelled your name as hangaleft instead of hang a left. Oooops. :blush:

Thanks, I'll check out the thread. I hope Josh makes note of it on his blog and gives credit to DU, anyway.

:hi:

backatcha :hi:

http://indianz.com/

they carry tons of native american news,and have archives back to 2001.I have dial-up,so it's tough,but i'm looking

Thanks!

Kerry at the podium with Abramoff and Jane Fonda at a 1970 rally.

as we speak. Just to muddy the waters.