Dems Got Hooked Up By Delay's Lobbyist Buddy

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just to show that some dems are just as dirty as their counterparts and should be careful slinging mud at delay (who i detest) and other republicans

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7727621/
Democrats’ travel costs linked to Abramoff
Two members of Congress went to N. MarianasBy R. Jeffrey Smith

Updated: 12:38 a.m. ET May 4, 2005

Lobbyist Jack Abramoff paid at least a portion of the expenses for two Democratic members of Congress and two staff members to then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) during a pair of trips in the mid-1990s to the Northern Mariana Islands, according to a former Abramoff secretary and travel records published on the Internet yesterday.

The payments represent two new instances in which lawmakers and staff members on overseas trips had their expenses initially covered by a registered lobbyist despite a blanket ban in congressional ethics rules on direct payments by lobbyists for travel-related expenses.

The two congressmen were James E. Clyburn (S.C.), now vice chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, and Bennie Thompson (Miss.), now the senior Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee. The aides to DeLay were Edwin A. Buckham, now a lobbyist for the Alexander Strategy Group, and Tony Rudy, now a member of Buckham's lobbying firm.
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just to show that some dems are just as dirty as their counterparts and should be careful slinging mud at delay (who i detest) and other republicans

To the Dems, it's ok as long as the public doesn't know about it. Of course, the rules only apply when it's Republican involved anyway.