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Scanlon, Evil Elf, Dirty Tricks Guy

Here’s another charming characterization of Michael Scanlon, Tom DeLay’s former spokesman who went on to become Jack Abramoff’s partner in fraud.

My personal favorite was “Abramoff’s evil elf,” from Abramoff’s Vanity Fair tell-all.

Now, courtesy of the new McCain report, we have “DeLay’s dirty tricks guy,” which is how Abramoff described him to Nell Rogers of the Mississippi Choctaw when pitching his services (see page 31).

I wonder if that’s different from the role in DeLay’s office of another ex-aide and admitted felon, Tony Rudy — who was described as “the implementer?”

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