Crazy Neighbors in Public Office (local listing)

SPEEDBALL politics in the MAIN$TREAM MEDIA plays to “STANDING ROOM ONLY” crowd.

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Future President-for-Life?
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Sam Brownback (KS)

Abramoff Connection


Senator Brownback criticized lobbying in Washington when he was new in town. “Brownback denounced the Washington lobbying scene as ‘a domestication process where you bring in new, fresh legislators and then you start to try to tame them and assist them with gifts and meals and trips almost like you would a horse with a sugar cube.’" [Washington Post, 11/27/95] But Senator Brownback recently returned $44,500 in donations, and “tribal representatives have said Abramoff suggested donation amounts.” “Brownback is among the top dozen recipients of donations from Abramoff, his partners and the tribes he represented. On Thursday, Brownback's chief spokesman said Brownback is giving the money to American Indian charities . . ..’’Brownback met Abramoff once at a breakfast,’ said Brian Hart, Brownback's chief spokesman. The two never met formally, nor was Brownback directly involved with any tribes Abramoff represented, he said. Hart said it's not clear why Brownback got more money than most lawmakers. Of the $44,500 Brownback received, $43,000 came from four tribes. Tribal representatives have said Abramoff suggested donation amounts, but ‘Senator Brownback was never asked to do anything for or anything by Mr. Abramoff, his colleagues or his clients,’ Hart said.” [Wichita Eagle, 1/6/06]Chief of the Wyandotte Nation blasted Brownback for taking “dirty money”. “The chief of the Wyandotte Nation criticized Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) for taking "dirty money" from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Brownback has accepted $42,000 from Abramoff, The Native American Times reported. Wyandotte Chief Leaford Bearskin said the donation is tied to Brownback's efforts to block the Wyandotte Nation's casino in downtown Kansas City.” [Indianz.com, 12/22/05]


Well she’s married to a Native Kansan and Football Captain, so we have to look.

Elizabeth Dole (NC)

Abramoff Connection

Jack Abramoff and his wife donated $1,000 to Senator Dole in 2002. (Center for Responsive Politics)

Money Matters

FEC said Senator Dole’s campaign committee should return $81,320 in unlawful contributions. “Federal auditors said a campaign committee for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., should return $81,320 in unlawful corporate contributions from her 2002 campaign, but the committee insists a convicted felon [Earl Allen Haywood] who cooked the books should be held responsible. . . . A federal audit of the Dole North Carolina Victory Committee, a joint fund-raising effort between Dole and the North Carolina Republican Party that Haywood helped manage, determined that it had deposited 31 checks received from the general funds of corporations. Such donations are unlawful. The review by Federal Election Commission auditors released Tuesday said the Victory Committee ‘bears the responsibility for the return of the prohibited contributions.’ The committee also could bear the consequences of violating the law. Dole's campaign committee said Haywood is responsible for those contributions and should return them himself. Neither Dole nor the party used the illegal donations because Haywood hid them, said Cleta Mitchell, the committee's Washington attorney. The auditors wrote that a lack of internal controls and oversight by the committee ‘created an environment that contributed to the misappropriation of funds and the misreporting to the commission.’" [Associated Press, 11/1/05, FEC Report]

Another crazy neighbor in public office.
It figures, see his quote at:
http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/2005/12/dumb-ass-politicians.html

Chuck Grassley (IA)

Abramoff Connection

Jack Abramoff and his wife donated $2,000 to Senator Grassley in 2004. (Center for Responsive Politics)

And last, but not least.

OUR Federal

FIELD GOAL KICKER!

Always ‘Semper Fi’ Sen. Pat from Oskaloosa, Ks the savvy player in the Bush War Machine.

No dirty money, yet.

Huge expansion of military bases in Kansas, UHMM?

Pat Roberts (KS)

Abuse of Power

Senator Roberts responsible for blocking progress on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the misuse of pre-war intelligence. "I don't think there should be any doubt that we have now heard it all regarding prewar intelligence. I think that it would be a monumental waste of time to replow this ground any further." [Pat Roberts, 3/31/05]

Roberts said the investigation was on the back burner. "Roberts, Republican of Kansas, said in February that the committee's investigation of the administration's use of intelligence is 'on the back burner,' and said in April that other issues have more urgent claims on the committee's attention." [Boston Globe, 7/27/05]

Roberts promised to complete investigation into the misuse of prewar intelligence, but has failed to do so. In July 2004, Roberts promised to complete the second phase of its investigation. Roberts said that “even as I'm speaking our staff is working on phase two and we will get it done.” Asked in April 2005 when Phase Two would be completed, Roberts said, “I'm more than happy to finish this, and I want to finish it, but we have other things that we need to do.” [NBC, “Meet the Press,” 4/10/05]
Vice President Cheney withheld key documents from the Intelligence Committee’s investigation. Vice President Cheney and his now-indicted Chief of Staff “Scooter” Libby withheld crucial documents from the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2004 when the panel was investigating the use of pre-war intelligence that erroneously concluded Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction… Had the withheld information been turned over, according to administration and congressional sources, it likely would have shifted a portion of the blame away from the intelligence agencies to the Bush administration as to who was responsible for the erroneous information being presented to the American public, Congress, and the international community. [National Journal, 10/27/05]