Monday, June 29, 2015

Sticky Wicket

Look who many GOP presidential candidates are cosying up to in order to get the approval of the religious conservative movement. I'm still amazed that Reed escaped prosecution in the crooked Tom Delay-Abramoff lobbying case.
The trick for the GOP primary winner is be able to extricate himself from extreme group association and move more to the center for the general election. Mitt was unable do pull it off and it appears that no lessons were learned from that debacle.
Paul Hunter
The Faith and Freedom Coalition, the Religious Right group led by right-wing disgraced Ralph Reed, is holding its annual “Road to Majorityconference next week. Nearly every Republican presidential candidate has signed up for the event, and today, the FFC announced that Ohio Gov. John Kasich will be addressing the conservative summit.

Reed is best known for his involvement in the Jack Abramoff scandal, where he organized a Christian Coalition anti-gambling campaign in Alabama with the help of secretive funding from Mississippi tribes that owned casinos – who just so happened to be Abramoff’s clients that didn’t want business competition from the neighboring state. Reed denied knowing the source of the funding, even though investigators uncovered emails from Abramoff asking Reed to send invoices for approval from a Mississippi tribe which controlled major gaming interests. Abramoff later said that Reed “didn't want it out that he was getting gambling money,” adding that Reed was “a tap dancer and constantly just asking for money.”


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