Word: delayer
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It was Congress's holiday for Memorial Day 2000, and majority whip Tom DeLay's staff thought the boss and two top aides deserved a respite from the arduous hours they had been putting in doing the people's business. They wanted to make sure DeLay's little delegation had the finest of everything on its weeklong trip to Britain--from lodgings at the Four Seasons Hotel in London to dinners at the poshest restaurants with the most interesting people, right down to the best tickets for The Lion King--at the time, one of the hottest shows playing...
Previous trips had taken DeLay and members of his staff all over the world, but none had been planned quite as meticulously as this one. Three sources who worked with Abramoff at the time say the majority whip's office ran one of Abramoff's assistants ragged with its constantly changing requests. Indeed, say two of those sources, the whole idea for the expensive London jaunt originated with DeLay aides as an additional stop on a golf outing that Abramoff had proposed to Scotland's famous St. Andrews course...
Abramoff delivered on virtually everything DeLay's staff requested. "Jack didn't need this to go awry," recalls a lobbyist who then worked with Abramoff at the Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds law firm and who notes that the trip came at a critical moment. Congress was considering legislation (which died a month after the trip) that might have shut down Internet gambling--and jeopardized the livelihoods of some of Abramoff's biggest clients. Two of them--a Choctaw Indian tribe and the Internet gambling company eLottery Inc.--each wrote a check...
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT TOM DELAY'S CURRENT ETHICS PROBLEMS...
...CRITICISMS HAS BEEN THAT DELAY HAD SOME OF HIS FAMILY MEMBERS ON HIS PAYROLL. YOUR SON'S FIRM WAS PAID MORE THAN $130,000 OVER FOUR YEARS BY YOUR POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE. IS THAT FAIR...