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It´s not about which politicains received donations from Abramoff, but how a crook like Abramoff ended up with so much power.
According to Providence Journal-Bulletin columnist Froma Harrop:
The K Street Project was a Republican plan to get the lobbyists to work for the party, especially its more influential members. (Lobbying firms congregate around K street.) The message to business was elegantly simple: If you want to get anything done in Washington, you have to hire Republican loyalists and fill GOP campaign coffers.
Sen. Santorum actually summoned lobbyists to Capitol Hill and helped pick people for the top jobs at their trade associations.
"Pay to play" is not a nice kind of government, but the Republican leaders established it in the open and without blushing. -- Abramoff was not the exception, he was the way the Republicans let loose corruption on America´s citizens and businesses.
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