We'll reprint the only factual information contained within the hackery spewed forth by Bob Schaffer via his mouthpiece Dick Wadhams as channeled through Rocky Mountain News stenographer Lynn Bartels:
U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall took $1,500 in contributions from two firms that once employed disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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In fact, the money came from Abramoff's employers' PACs.
That's right. Nothing to do with Abramoff, Abramoff's lobbying, his clients, his schemes to defraud Indian tribes, or his support for the sweatshops and their associated "free-market" forced abortions.
Two of the largest lawfirms in the world have PACs, and those PACs gave Udall a total of $1,500 during the time that Abramoff was in the employ of the companies associates with the PACs.
Meanwhile, Schaffer accepted thousands in tainted money from the likes of Tom DeLay, to say nothing of the thousands more he took directly from the sweatshop moguls themselves, and then to say nothing of the $13,000 parasailing junket he took on Abramoff's dime. All of this is documented fact. Let's review:
There's nothing in this story that should ever have been reported by Lynn Bartels. Shame on her for not checking her facts.
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