Norquist group faces challenge for Abramoff ties

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Norquist group faces challenge for Abramoff ties

By Andy Sullivan
Reuters
Tuesday, March 14, 2006; 4:59 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An ethics watchdog asked the U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday to revoke the tax-exempt status of a conservative group for helping disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff secretly fund an anti-casino campaign that benefited his clients.

Americans for Tax Reform also violated its nonprofit status by taking a cut of the money it handled, said Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW.

"This thing that they did where they basically took in money from tribes, laundered it and skimmed some off the top had nothing to do with their purpose" as an anti-tax organization, CREW executive director Melanie Sloan said.

A spokesman for Americans for Tax Reform declined to comment but said he would have an official reaction later.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/14/AR2006031401143.html

[Warpy]

1. Oh, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let this rid us of Grover Norquist!

He's the poisonous bastard who is encouraging Stupid to have all the fiscal restraint of a crack head with a stolen credit card so he can "drown government in a bathtub," something that might have appealed to the witless before Katrina, but not now.

It's wonderful that it's tainted Reed and Dobson, but it would be exquisite if it dragged Norquist down and disgraced him to the point that the only people who would listen to him are the numbnuts who watch CBN by choice.