Masters of Sleaze excerpts: ... Only a giant like Abramoff would have the guts to use one tribe's casino money to finance a Focus on the Family crusad
March 21, 2005

Masters of Sleaze excerpts:

... Only a giant like Abramoff would have the guts to use one tribe's casino money to finance a Focus on the Family crusade against gambling in order to shut down a rival tribe's casino.... Soon the creative revolutionaries were blending the high-toned forms of the think tank with the low-toned scams of the buckraker. Ed Buckham, Tom DeLay's former chief of staff, helped run the U.S. Family Network, which supported the American family by accepting large donations and leasing skyboxes at the MCI Center, according to Roll Call.

Reed so strongly opposes gambling as a matter of principle that he bravely accepted $4 million through Abramoff from casino-rich Indian tribes to gin up a grass-roots campaign. read on

You have got to read this article. I guess it just took a matter of time for David to finally see some truth after all. Either that or he drank some Gatorade instead of the Kool-aid.

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