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 Majority”
conference
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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