Here's a list as best as I can find at the moment:<br /><br />House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., about $77,000 <br />House Majority Leader Roy Blunt, R-Mo., $8,500 <br />Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, $15,000 <br />Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., $2,000 to be returned to the Michigan Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe. <br />Republican Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., $16,000. <br />Christopher Bond, R-Mo., $12,500 <br />Jim Bunning, R-Ky., $1,000 <br />Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., $1,000 <br />Thad Cochran, R-Miss., $8,000 <br />Norm Coleman, R-Minn., $3,000 <br />Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., $1,000 <br />Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., <br />Judd Gregg, R-N.H., $12,000 <br />Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., $9,000 <br />Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., $2,000 <br />Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., $4,000 <br />Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., $18,500 <br />Rick Santorum, R-Pa., $11,000 <br />Gordon Smith, R-Ore., $8,500 <br />Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, $16,500 <br />John Sununu, R-N.H., $3,000 <br />Jim Talent, R-Mo., $2,000 <br />Craig Thomas, R-Wyo., $8,000 <br />John Thune, R-S.D., $2,000 <br />John W. Warner, R-Va., $1,000 <br /><br />There may be more, time will tell.<br /><br />Oh, and the $100,000.00 figure being thrown out there is NOT money that Abramoff gave to Bush-Cheney. It's said he helped to fundraise that amount. Bush is returning $6,000 that cam directly from Abramoff, his wife and the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan.
Unfortunately, I agree with all but #4. I still remember the Republican's saying "no more business as usual", Gingrich's "Contract with America", McCain/Feingold's campaign finance reform.<br />Surely if Abramoff offered 300 bribes 299 would have been accepted.<br />
honest.............McCain??.....One of the Keating 5. Those bribes ended up costing the taxpayers BILLIONS$$$$.
Because we the general public are the bigger morons
Originally posted by KaGee:<br />[QB] 40 of the Dem party's 45 U.S. senators made the Jack Abramoff dishonor roll, including:<br /><br /><br /> The list is bad in a way. It lead you to think, MY congressperson only took.....<br /> Its irrelevent what they took. They sold a vote.<br />Life at levenworth breaking rocks seams about right.
Have to agree with the above statement with just a bit more added.<br /><br />It is going to take the American public at large writing letters of support to the congressmen of ALL parties who take a stand to change the system.<br /><br />People will have to be willing to cross party lines and put aside their other differences if they want to see change. <br />Our leaders know we have the attention span of a gnat. They will make a big show and pass some meaningless legislation to appease the public. Then it is back to business as usual as a new "Crisis du jour" or "Scandal du jour" grabs our fancy.<br /><br />I have visited with some elected representitives.<br />I have been told the thing that grabs their attention the most is a personally written letter that is well thought out and mailed to them.<br /><br />E-mails and mass mailing cards mean little to them as these forms of communication require so little effort to send. If someone is torqued off enough to spend some time writing an actual letter and posting it then they are torqued off enough to start a grass roots movement.<br /><br /> Where to find and write to your Representive<br /> Find your Senator
