BTW: Gale Norton is presently under investiagtion for activites involving Royal Dutch Shell.

The Abramoff investigation continues to expand. Kevin Ring, a TOP aide is currently on trial,and his long awaited day in court has been long anticipated for its potentially explosive revelations about the very highest echelon players in DC and beyond.

What has not been mentioned in these comments,to my knowledge, is that Tony Perkins-top capo of this little “Values “(?) group was a Louisiana state rep at the time Abramoff and Ralph Reed were bilking these tribes out of millions of $$$. Perkins even authord a letter to Gale Norton(Sec.Of Interior) to favor Abramoff’s clients. Here’s an excerpt from media matters:
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However, in the February 4 online edition of World Magazine, reporter Jamie Dean wrote: “Tom Minnery, a senior vice president at Focus on the Family, told WORLD it’s possible Mr. Reed asked Mr. Dobson to write a letter to Gale Norton.”
Minnery himself wrote a similar letter to Norton, as did current Family Research Council (FRC) president Tony Perkins — who was then a member of the Louisiana state legislature.

Abigail Blunt, the former Abigail Perlman, has …. Blunt’s former chief of staff recruited Abramoff to work for Cassidy & Associates. In …
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Rep. Roy Blunt (MO-7) tried to help Philip Morris (one of his big donors and employer of his son, Andrew, and his then girlfriend, Abigail Perlman) by inserting a tobacco industry backed provision attacking internet cigarette sales into the, get this, Homeland Security Bill.Out-of-state donors who needed support from Roy Blunt in Congress donated large amounts of money to his son, Matt Blunt’s, campaign. Finally, Governor Matt Blunt has tried to prevent the U.S. Attorney’s office from investigating his family’s scandals by putting the wife of U.S. Attorney Todd Graves (U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri) on the Blunt Family payroll to the tune of a cool half million dollars a year, and he used taxpayer dollars to do it.

NOTE: FAmily values??

According to this,Blun’t’s present wife,Abigail Perlman, was his son Andrew’s girlfriend…and is now his step mother.

There is nothing new under the sun, no not one.

Now Philip Morris was the LARGEST contributor to Blunt,and the company-subsequently known as Altria, sponsored some of the Turkish Council airplane trips for Blunt and other Congressional types to Turkey,back a few years ago.

Blunt even attempted to insert verbiage into legislation that would have benefitted Altria-even DeLay and Hastert objected to that move!

The recent Edmond’s deposition outlines much of Blunt’s activities regarding the Turkish council.

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Ms. Abigail Perlman | Fired Up! AmericaMs. Abigail Perlman. Submitted by Roy Temple on Sat, 01/07/2006 – 2:53pm. In 2003, Rep. Roy Blunt divorced his wife of 30+ years and married Phillip Morris lobbyist Abiagail Perlman…
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Because while you may think jokes about monkeys throwing balls on golf courses are slick dog-whistles that go over the head of the liberal coastal elites …

Actually, our “liberal coastal elites,” a/k/a Our Media Stars, are ducking their heads as low as necessary until it goes over them.