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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-06-08 01:38 PM
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This guy is pimping WH officials for "six-figure donations".


"A lobbyist with close ties to the White House is offering access to key figures in George W Bush’s administration in return for six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency.

Stephen Payne, who claims to have raised more than $1m for the president’s Republican party in recent years, said he would arrange meetings with Dick Cheney, the vice-president, Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, and other senior officials in return for a payment of $250,000 (£126,000) towards the library in Texas.

Payne, who has accompanied Bush and Cheney on several foreign trips, also said he would try to secure a meeting with the president himself. "

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4322684.ece
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-06-08 01:40 PM
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1. I would not pay 2 cents to meet with those thieves
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-06-08 01:42 PM
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2. we don't have enough jails to house all these criminals
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-06-08 01:46 PM
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3. Isn't that illegal?
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-06-08 02:05 PM
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5. In the Bush world, **nothing** is illegal.
or too reprehensible.
or shameful.
or embarrassing.
Besides, nothing they do "really happened" since they have revisionists swooping behind them at 30 second intervals to sanitize whatever the hell just did not happen.
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lyonn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-06-08 01:59 PM
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4. Good luck Stephen Payne, giggle and other snarky sounds
Maybe that will be one library that will never open!!!
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hughee99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-06-08 02:09 PM
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6. Pardons used to cost $450k in library donations.
If just meeting costs $250k now, I wonder what pardons will go for.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-06-08 02:33 PM
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7. Wanna bet this guy gets caught with his hand in the
cookie jar? "I now present this check for $250-I mean $200,000...." Wow, flashback. The movie, "Twins". "Ohhhh, you mean the $4 million?"
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-06-08 02:37 PM
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8. To do what in 45 days?
What a scam.
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