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After months of defiant protestations of innocence about his role in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, has pleaded guilty to making false statements, conspiracy to commit fraud and violating post-employment restrictions for former congressional aides. But the probe into the lobbying scandal is far from wrapped...
...conduct to which Ney has pleaded guilty is similar to the alleged conduct of Senator Conrad Burns and his staff," points out Melanie Sloan, Executive Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a non-profit watchdog group. "Abramoff has said that Burns and his staff used Signatures [Abramoff's restaurant] like their cafeteria. And Burns took a number of legislative actions on Abramoff's behalf, even as members of his staff went on trip to the 2001 Super Bowl on private jet and visited Sun Cruise gambling ships, which were partly owned by Abramoff. "Abramoff himself said...
...Aides to Deborah Pryce, a Republican in the Columbus, Ohio, area, have continued to call her opponent, Mary Jo Kilroy, a "tax and spend liberal," while Bob Ney, the Republican congressman embroiled in the Jack Abramoff Washington lobbying scandal, has a site called lostinzackspace.com, where he attacks his Democratic opponent Zack Space and links him to his "ultra-liberal" friends: Howard Dean, George Soros and Nancy Pelosi. The Democrats seem to be responding to the tactic. It's difficult to find the word "Democrat" on the web site of Brad Ellsworth, the Democrat running against Hostettler in the Evansville district...
...Reed's defeat, Democrats see reason to hope that their message about the G.O.P.'s "culture of corruption" is helping them toward their goal of taking back Congress in November. But that's wishful thinking. With the exception of those few candidates tied directly to Abramoff--Representative Bob Ney in Ohio and Senator Conrad Burns in Montana--it's unlikely that many Republicans will lose their seats over an issue Americans rank low on their list of concerns. If corruption were driving voters to the polls, Democrats should have won--or at least performed better in--the special election...
...Committee, Jerry Lewis, is reportedly under investigation for potential misuse of earmarks. Former House majority leader Tom DeLay, on trial for illegal campaign fund transfers, is also under investigation for dealings with lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former staffers. The former Chairman of the House Administration Committee, Ohio Republican Bob Ney, has been fingered by four people in a public corruption scheme tied to Abramoff. Florida Republican Katherine Harris and Virginia Republican Virgil Goode have also been caught up in spreading influence-peddling allegations. And Republicans Conrad Burns, John Doolittle and other Abramoff casualties are biting their nails while the feds...