It's a Scandal -- and This T-Shirt Proves It (name the scandal contest)

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/08/AR2006010800868.html?referrer=email
It's a Scandal -- and This T-Shirt Proves It

By Al Kamen

Monday, January 9, 2006; Page A17

Loop Fans started submitting entries last week to the In the Loop Name the Abramoff Scandal Contest, confidently assuming there would have to be such a contest.

Actually, we'd thought about having one but decided not to. After all, there was a "Name that Scandal" contest last year, focusing on former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and superlobbyist Jack Abramoff ........


So . . . okay. The Name the Abramoff Scandal Contest will kick off 2006! Names ending in -gate, while not automatically rejected, are frowned upon.

Send your entry -- and rationale -- via e-mail to [e-mail] or mail to In the Loop, The Washington Post, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071. Deadline is midnight Jan. 18. Top 10 winners get a still-rare, highly coveted In the Loop T-shirt. (Shown here for those who doubted their existence.) Entries on background are welcome, but everyone must include telephone numbers to be eligible.

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1. "Republican bribery scandal" works for me.