e-mail- "From: "Brian Rothenberg (Ohio Democratic Party)" <brian@ohiodems.org>
Subject: Culture of Corruption: Petition Pres. Bush to Return Noe & Abramoff 'Pioneer' Money
Date: Thu 01/05/06 12:15 PM "
"There they go again.
The Bush White House has refused to return more than $45,000 that Tom Noe raised as a fabled Bush 'pioneer'. In late October, Noe was indicted on three felony counts of illegally funneling they money into the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.
Now, super-lobbyist and Republican Jack Abramoff has plead guilty to a host of charges including using his donations to bribe elected officials including the Department of Justices infamous Representative No. 1 -- identified by newspapers as Ohio Republican Congressman Bob Ney. But the White House refuses to return more than $100,000 in dirty money that Abramoff raised as a Bush 'pioneer' -- the very money used to influence those officeholders under investigation. All the White House will return is the $6,000 of Abramoff's direct donations.
Send a message to the White House: Ohioans are organizing to defeat the Republican money machine and its corrupt, 'pay-to-play' politics that have made Tom Noe, Bob Taft, Bob Ney and Jack Abramoff poster children for corrupt politics.
Please sign our petition at:
http://www.ohiodems.org/ht/d/sp/i/721892/pid/721892 Paid for and authorized by the Ohio Democratic Party,
Chris Redfern, Chair, 271 East State St, Columbus, Ohio 43215"