Today Kevin Ring, one of the top lobbyists for Jack Abramoff was arrested.
I have been reading the indictment and it is astounding!!!!!!
They are linking Ring's illegal lobbying tactics to a Rep. 4, Rep. 5, and various members in the Executive Branch.
I am going to focus on Rep. 5, because this is obviously Rep. John Doolittle from CA04.
What is so huge here is that in the Senate Hearings re. the Abramoff and Indian Gaming Tribes that McCain held in 2005, well; McCain gave John Doolittle and his wife a huge pass. McCain had access to this email evidence.
I was reading Dengre's diaries on Abramoff, the CNMI, and all the Pirates who swindled the us.
Charlie Brown for Congress was so active in pointing out Doolittle's corruption. There was so much that came out about Doolittle in 2006, but nothing happened, thanks to McCain!
The indictment of Kevin Ring is amazing. There are pages listing so many favors Ring/Abramoff did for Rep. 5, his wife, and staff. These were in the emails that the DoJ had and so did McCain (Dengre explains it here and here - re. Rep 4 Ernest Istook.
Here is a little snippet from the AP:
The 46-page indictment lists a long list of favors that Ring did for aides to Doolittle and for Doolittle himself, who is referred to not by name but as "Representative 5." These included free travel, meals, fundraising help and tickets to sports games and concerts by the Dixie Chicks and Faith Hill.
Abramoff also put Doolittle's wife, Julie, on his payroll to help with a fundraiser, and continued paying her even after the fundraiser she was hired to plan got canceled. Julie Doolittle got paid a total of about $96,000 from Abramoff.
Doolittle, in turn, helped out Ring and Abramoff, including by writing letters to the Interior Department to help their tribal clients, pushing for federal money for their projects and seeking support from his colleagues for legislation they were pushing.
At one point in 2000, Doolittle's then-chief of staff told Ring that Doolittle had said he felt like a "subsidiary" of Abramoff's firm, the indictment says.
This is confirmation of every thing and MORE that Charlie Brown was saying about Doolittle in 2006.
How about sending Charlie Brown a little sugar to let him know you appreciate his work and then also a something to Obama so he can let John McCain know we do not support giving corrupt GOP members a pass.
Just out, this beginning to hit the local papers in the district. Kevin Ring was made the lobbyists for one of the cities in Doolittle's district. The City of Lincoln is one of the fastest growing cities in the US. It was richly awash in developer money. The story has just appeared in their local paper and the extreme rightwingers already starting to comment.