Bad Deeds for 6-8-2007

Republican “Environmentalist” With Ties To Abramoff/Bush Administration Pleads Guilty – Italia Federici, a Republican activist will plead guilty to tax evasion and obstructing Congress in the influence-peddling scandal centered around former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Federici had close ties to senior Interior Department officials as head of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, a nonprofit group founded by former Interior Secretary Gale Norton. Federici introduced Abramoff to her sometime boyfriend, ex-Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles. Over the next several years, Federici served as a go-between for Griles and Abramoff. Abramoff donated roughly $500,000 to her group during that time.

Conservative Wants to Hold Down the Number of Voters – Paul Weyrich, father of the right-wing movement and co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and Moral Majority, said, “Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome – good government. They want everybody to vote. I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” That’s why the Republicans are obsessed with so-called “voter fraud”. They want to disenfranchise voters because as Weyrich said back in the ’80’s…the more voters there are-the less of a chance the wingers have in any election.

Confirmed: The CIA Ran Secret Prisons in Poland and Romania – The secret detention facilities in Europe were run directly and exclusively by the CIA. While it is likely that very few people in the countries concerned, including in the governments themselves, knew of the existence of the centers, we have sufficient grounds to declare that the highest state authorities were aware of the CIA’s illegal activities on their territories.

80 Percent of Sex Scandal Leads are on Republicans – Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, days after posting a $1 million bounty for verifiable information on the sexual exploits of Washington politicals, says he’s been deluged – getting more than 200 leads, “80 percent of them on Republicans.”

Alabama State Republican Senator Punches Democratic Senator [Another slip down the slop to ruin, Andy]

Conservative Judge Says You Shouldn’t Sue for Big Money, But It’s OK for Him To Do It – Judge Robert Bork, one of the fathers of the modern judicial conservative movement, who has argued for tort reform against frivolous claims and excessive punitive damage awards, is seeking one-million dollars in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages after he slipped and fell at the Yale Club of New York City.

Regards,

Jim