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foxvince
Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 3
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:45 pm Post subject: Ralph Reeds real agenda!? |
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Reed's Role Examined by Senate Committee
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As reported by the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution: "Ralph Reed won't be in the Senate hearing room Wednesday. But the role the Republican candidate for Georgia lieutenant governor played in blocking gambling in Alabama six years ago will be examined closely in the Senate Indian Affairs Committee's third hearing into whether Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff defrauded six casino-operating Indian tribes.
"Three leaders of the Choctaw tribe of Mississippi will headline the hearing, the committee announced Monday. Several associates of Abramoff and his partner, Michael Scanlon, are scheduled to testify, but Reed isn't among the listed witnesses.
"The Choctaw tribe, an Abramoff client, is at the center of a controversy over whether Abramoff, Reed and Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, used proceeds from the Choctaws' casino to fund opposition to a state lottery and video poker machines in neighboring Alabama that threatened the Choctaws' gambling monopoly in the area…" |
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twisterfries
Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 6
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder what crime does Ralph Reed did?can someone answer me about my question.thanks in advance.have a nice day! |
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DeepBlue
Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 121
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 12:07 am Post subject: |
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I'm not sure either, but it doesn't look too clever.
A lot of fraud going on behind the scenes, and it comes as no surprise that any hearings that do make it to a court of some sort are well publicised. |
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