Jack Abramoff

Jacked! Reform Movement Splits On How To Handle Abramoff

Ryan J. Reilly | February 7, 2012, 5:51AM

Jack Abramoff speaks before Public Citizen, a consumer rights advocacy group, in Washington, DC on February 6, 2012.

If one thing was clear at a Monday event held by the nonprofit watchdog group Public Citizen, it's that good government types are split into two camps on the subject of Jack Abramoff. There are those who think his perspective as the world's most notorious lobbyist give him valuable ideas on how to fix the system, and there are those who think he's - frankly - full of it.

Six cameras, about as many photographers and rows of reporters packed into a room at Public Citizen lined with historic photos of founder Ralph Nader (a connection Abramoff found ironic, given how he'd opposed Nader's work during his career) for a chat between President Rob Weissman and Abramoff.

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