jack abramoff

As promised earlier, the new Internet ad:

first posted at Scrutiny Hooligans

The Asheville Citizen-Times, playing johnny-come-lately behind we Hooligans in reporting the DCCC's NC-11 ad buy, has this quote from Charles Taylor's camp:

"Taylor, in a statement released Sunday, said the DCCC was resorting to “outright lies” in its ads.

click on the pic to enlarge. the hi-res original will be available soon is available now by clicking here. (warning to dial-up users - it's 9.44 megabytes)

even at 18% of the original size you'll still be able to make out the individuals in the source images.

In the 2003-‘04 election cycle, NC Congressman Charles Taylor (R-11) received three times as much in donations from energy-related political action committees (PACs) as he had in the three previous election cycles, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

In 2003-04, Taylor received $51,531 from energy PACs. From 1997-2002, Taylor averaged $14,995 in oil, gas, mining, and power company PAC donations. In the 2005-06 cycle he has so far received $22,750.

And surprise, surprise! In a remarkable coincidence with absolutely no relationship to all that lovin’ from the energy industries, in 2003 Taylor just “happened” to write two particularly controversial pieces of legislation for their benefit.

In 2003, Taylor wrote legislation favorable to a bunch of oil, gas, timber, and mining companies that had conveniently just given him far, far, far more money than Indian tribes ever have or will. In fact, that quarter alone, the same one in which Taylor's already been accused of sucking up to Indian bribery, in the donations battle, Oil and Gas beat Indians, 4-1.

And, surprise, surprise! The people being screwed by Taylor's efforts: 500,000 native Americans who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit called Cobell v. Norton that they won in 1996.

Taylor's legislative attempt to overcome a judicial decision was tossed out the next month on a point of order. (You can't legislate in an appropriations bill). So Chuckie patiently waited a half year to try a slightly different legislative tactic.

This picture was posted atop a piece today at Scrutiny Hooligans. I thought y'all would like it. Feel free to post it at your own blogs, print it, email or whatever. A link to www.taylorsucks.org would be nice but not necessary.

Emails obtained by the Associated Press implicate North Carolina Congressman Charles Taylor (R-11) in a complex scheme with several other congressmen and senators to benefit one of convicted felon Jack Abramoff’s clients, Michigan’s Chippewa Saginaw tribe.

According to FEC reports filed by the Taylor campaign, Taylor had received $27,750 from Indian Tribes and Abramoff and his associates.

The emails delineate a conspiracy to pressure congressmen and staff in the Interior Department’s funding process. Appropriations for the Interior Department (including the Bureau of Indian Affairs) in 2003 fell under the appropriations subcommittee Taylor chaired.

Congressman Charles Taylor's (NC-11) normally subservient propaganda apparatus today came up with the intestinal fortitude to tentatively remind the Titanic's captain there appears to be an iceberg ahead.

In an editorial aggressively headlined:

Voters deserve some answers from Taylor

the Asheville Citizen Times had the temerity to remind North Carolina Congressman Charles Taylor (R-11) that "hey, cap'm. You know if the ship goes down, there really ain't enough lifeboats."

(front-paged by Anglico . . .)

In preparation for Jane Hamsher's live chat with the Washington Post I am cross posting here and at MyDD a post from my blog Americans Deserve the Truth.  It is time for the truth to be more easily found in the traditional media outlets especially about the political scandals currently flourishing in Washington.  I'm tired of the media trying to artificially balance the news they deliver.  You can't turn a Republican scandal into a bipartisan affair just by pretending it is so.  My diary follows........

Here's some information (PDF) about the ties between Jack Abramoff and the guy Sue Myrick wants to be the new Republican House Majority Leader. [Via]