Interesting that Doolittle doesn’t have the obligatory giant flag pin on his left lapel. Instead, he has what could be a gold coin on his right lapel.

Ah! NPR news just reported the reaid on Doolittle’s home. Mentioned confirmation by lawyer for Doolittle, followed by D’s wife was [employed] by Abramoff. Do they know something we haven’t seen yet? Warrant maybe indicates searching Julie’s stuff instead of/as well as his?

kirk murphy @ 50

Anothe eco-raper bites the dust?

Sweet.

If we’re lucky, there’s a twofer.

Julie Doolittle’s also up a creek (polluted, of course)

The Washington Post reported on the “connections” between Rep. Doolittle and Jack Abramoff. Kevin A. Ring, “Doolittle’s chief of staff in the mid-1990s and now a lobbyist for the city of Lincoln, worked for Abramoff. Doolittle’s wife, Julie, also worked for Abramoff and his firm raising funds for a charity the lobbyist had created.

“‘Two sources close to the investigation said that Ring, while working [for] Abramoff, was an intermediary in the hiring of Julie Doolittle’s firm, Sierra Dominion Financial Solutions Inc., which last year [2004] received a subpoena from the grand jury investigating Abramoff,’ the Post reported.” [1]

ccmask @ 214

The ATF know where just about every gun is in this nation.

You are trying to make me laugh myself silly, right? I have some good buds in ATF and they will be the first to tell you that this country is going to sink into the sea from the weight of all the guns (and other things that go boom) that are here illegally.

And here I had thought it was going to sink into the sea from the weight of ancient Reader’s Digests and National Geographics in people’s basements.

How would they know when he mailed it? He didn’t just put it in a mailbox? The only way a timestamp would be valid is if he drove off campus and stood in line at the Post office to mail it. Or am I missing something?

Perhaps there is a campus P.O. that he used? If the package were bulky, it would have to be weighed to determine proper postage.

They have machines that do this, you just put the item on the scale, the machine weighs it and spits out the appropriate postage with date/time stamp. CNN said it was “overnite mail” but the address was incorrect, thus it took two days.

Hooray for Ring!!!

From Charlie Brown’s website, dated yesterday:

Ring is now the 2nd Abramoff associate to leave the law firm of Barnes and Thornberg. The first, Neil Volz, left just months before he pled guilty in the Abramoff inquiry. Volz eventually helped federal prosecutors indict his former boss, the now imprisoned former Ohio Congressman Bob Ney. According to press reports, the Ring resignation could foreshadow things to come–stay tuned. Read more here.

Even Karl Rove has taken notice, and shown a willingness to try almost anything to retain CA-04. In a recent powerpoint from Rove’s office, Doolittle was listed as the #11 most vulnerable GOP incumbent in 2008.

He may have just cracked the top 10.

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And after this news, I think Doolittle may have just claimed the top spot on that list.

Ah, even more PRE in the PuRgE.

The ATF know where just about every gun is in this nation.

You are trying to make me laugh myself silly, right? I have some good buds in ATF and they will be the first to tell you that this country is going to sink into the sea from the weight of all the guns (and other things that go boom) that are here illegally.

lhp—We misunderstood. When you said we were overlooking something important and who was taking Carol Lam out for steak and a beer, it sounded like we should try to guess who already was taking her out.

Ooops.

Ah, now I understand. No, I meant that no one should overlook giving props to the lady who made it all possible