Wednesday, July 12, 2006
More Trouble for Abramoff and Reed
With Jack Abramoff's criminal cases being all but resolved, he now faces a new round of civil court trouble. As the Austin-American Statesman reports, "an East Texas American Indian tribe denied the right to run its own casino filed a lawsuit today against disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates, including Ralph Reed, formerly of the Christian Coalition and now a candidate for Georgia lieutenant governor."
The lawsuit alleges that Abramoff, Reed, and the other defendants (including an aide to former Congressman Tom DeLay) pitted competing tribes against each other and appealed to religious conservatives on moral grounds to keep casinos from being built in Texas.
This is the latest round of trouble for Reed. Questions about his association with Abramoff continue to hound his campaign for Lieutenant Governor in Georgia. Meanwhile, Reed continues to deny any wrongdoing while claiming to have "stronger values" than his
GOP primary opponent.
All of this makes great fodder for a column by Garrison Keillor.
The lawsuit alleges that Abramoff, Reed, and the other defendants (including an aide to former Congressman Tom DeLay) pitted competing tribes against each other and appealed to religious conservatives on moral grounds to keep casinos from being built in Texas.
This is the latest round of trouble for Reed. Questions about his association with Abramoff continue to hound his campaign for Lieutenant Governor in Georgia. Meanwhile, Reed continues to deny any wrongdoing while claiming to have "stronger values" than his
GOP primary opponent.
All of this makes great fodder for a column by Garrison Keillor.
