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More Bad News for Norquist

Courtesy of the AP’s John Solomon:

Wanted: Face time with President Bush or top adviser Karl Rove. Suggested donation: $100,000. The middleman: lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Blunt e-mails that connect money and access in Washington show that prominent Republican activist Grover Norquist facilitated some administration contacts for Abramoff’s clients while the lobbyist simultaneously solicited those clients for large donations to Norquist’s tax-exempt group.

Come to think of it, this doesn’t shine well for the administration, either. The selling of the White House, 2002?

Grover Norquist, John Solomon

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