GOP Department of Interior/Indian Casino Scandal & Fundie fun

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http://denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E11676%257E2760239,00.html?search=filter

Washington - Federal officials are investigating the role of Interior Secretary Gale Norton and some of her associates in a widening corruption scandal centering on Indian casinos and gambling rights.

At issue is the relationship between Norton, a former Colorado attorney general, and Jack Abramoff, one of Washington's most prominent GOP lobbyists.

The Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, a conservative group founded by Norton before she became interior secretary, received as much as $225,000 from Abramoff's clients to influence the Interior Department on not allowing an obscure Louisiana Indian tribe to open a casino.

The Interior Department has the final say on a tribe's gambling ambitions....

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[CheshireCat]

1. OK - Way past time for these crooks to fall!

And if Norton and James Dobson have played a part in this crime, they need to be locked up. They have done enough damage to our country to qualify as traitors!

[bemildred]

2. Perp walk, perp walk, want to see the perp walk. nt

[yellowcanine]

3. I hope the Democrats in Georgia are taking good notes on Ralphie and the

Indian casinos. Sounds like Ralphie is up to his neck in casino poop and it has stained his choir robe.

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