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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Rick Santorum Tried To Turn Lobbyists Into Cogs Of GOP Machine With K Street Project
Rick Santorum Tried To Turn Lobbyists Into Cogs Of GOP Machine With K Street Project
WASHINGTON -- Behind the sweater vests, the faith and family, and the self-definition as a congressional reformer lies another Rick Santorum. This Rick Santorum favors big business, curries favor from lobbyists, and helped to bind the Washington influence industry to the Republican Party while serving in Congress.
Beginning in 2001, after Republicans seized control of Congress and the White House, then-Sen. Santorum (R-Pa.) began hosting Tuesday morning meetings with a select group of lobbyists. These meetings were part of a larger plan -- originally launched in the 1990s by Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), conservative activist Grover Norquist and others when the GOP retook the House of Representatives after 40 years of Democratic control -- to pressure lobbying firms and trade associations to dump their Democratic lobbyists and replace them with Republicans. Named after the Washington business corridor famous for housing lobbying firms, the K Street Project was aimed at installing a permanent Republican majority in Washington.
WASHINGTON -- Behind the sweater vests, the faith and family, and the self-definition as a congressional reformer lies another Rick Santorum. This Rick Santorum favors big business, curries favor from lobbyists, and helped to bind the Washington influence industry to the Republican Party while serving in Congress.
Beginning in 2001, after Republicans seized control of Congress and the White House, then-Sen. Santorum (R-Pa.) began hosting Tuesday morning meetings with a select group of lobbyists. These meetings were part of a larger plan -- originally launched in the 1990s by Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), conservative activist Grover Norquist and others when the GOP retook the House of Representatives after 40 years of Democratic control -- to pressure lobbying firms and trade associations to dump their Democratic lobbyists and replace them with Republicans. Named after the Washington business corridor famous for housing lobbying firms, the K Street Project was aimed at installing a permanent Republican majority in Washington.
The tangled web of Rick Santorum when he was "doing real work."
This brings me to one of my favorites the Northern Mariana sweatshops covered by Bill Moyers in Capital Crimes. This is a US territory that does not have to pay minimum wage. It worked like a pump, pumping out what were nearly slaves out of mainland Asia and exploiting them sometimes behind barbed wire. In some case there were incidents of prostitution and forced abortions to keep these workers working. The sweatshop owner gave Jack Abramoff money who then sprinkled to Tom Delay and his republican cronies. One the godly christian Rich Santorum to make sure these sweatshop didn't have to worry about regulations.
This how the Daily Kos covered the connection:
I forgot Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. Now it is The Abramoff 65. Turns out that Abramoff billed the Mariana Islands for two meetings with little Ricky in 1996, then his team billed the CNMI for an event, hosted by Santorum's PAC just before the 1996 GOP convention. This was the meeting where Team Abramoff introduced the sweatshop owners to the Republican Conservatives. Attending for the Tan Family was Willie Tan, Ben Fitial and Eloy Inos. And as a gesture of gratitude, the sweatshop owner's of Saipan gave Santorum's PAC a $10,000 donation. That gets little Ricky on the list. Please join me on the jump for more details...
The full post is here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/09/25/249626/-PA-Sen:-Rick-Santorum-makes-it-the-Abramoff-65-UPDATED-with-Images
Abramoff later went to jail for cheating the indians out of money and you can hear the email exchange of Rick Santorum's partners.
This how the Daily Kos covered the connection:
I forgot Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. Now it is The Abramoff 65. Turns out that Abramoff billed the Mariana Islands for two meetings with little Ricky in 1996, then his team billed the CNMI for an event, hosted by Santorum's PAC just before the 1996 GOP convention. This was the meeting where Team Abramoff introduced the sweatshop owners to the Republican Conservatives. Attending for the Tan Family was Willie Tan, Ben Fitial and Eloy Inos. And as a gesture of gratitude, the sweatshop owner's of Saipan gave Santorum's PAC a $10,000 donation. That gets little Ricky on the list. Please join me on the jump for more details...
The full post is here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/09/25/249626/-PA-Sen:-Rick-Santorum-makes-it-the-Abramoff-65-UPDATED-with-Images
Abramoff later went to jail for cheating the indians out of money and you can hear the email exchange of Rick Santorum's partners.
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