Ryun: Abramoff Never Sat in My Chair!Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new champion in the ongoing competition between lawmakers to distance themselves from Jack Abramoff.
Up until now, the lamest denial I’d heard was Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite’s (R-FL) “I wouldn’t know the man if I tripped over him.” This, however, is just one of many varieties of the “I wouldn’t know Abramoff if…” excuse.
Rep. Jim Ryun (R-KS) stormed into the lead this weekend with the following: “I never met with (Abramoff) in my office.”
He never met with him in his office. He was therefore safe from any undue influence. Feel better, Kansas?
Ryun, of course, is still trying to spin his way out of his purchase of the U.S. Family Network’s townhouse for tens of thousands of dollars under market price, a story we broke in March. The U.S. Family Network was controlled by Abramoff’s close ally Ed Buckham, who’s reportedly in the Justice Department’s sites. Kansans should be relieved to know that Ryun vows he never met with Buckham in his office, either.