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20080502
-
 John
McCain -  Corporate
-  Oil
-  Politics
-  Foreign
-  US
-  Iraq
-  Military
- 2008
Election - Denver
- Colorado
- "McCain
Suggests Iraq War Is About Oil." ... "At the conclusion
of a town hall held this morning outside in Devner [sic, correction: Denver,
Colorado], [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain
decided to toss in a plug for his upcoming energy policy rollout. But as
McCain decried the dangers of Americans reliance on foreign oil, he also
seemed to suggest that this reliance caused the current struggle in Iraq."
... ""My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking
about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East
that will - that will then prevent us - that will prevent us from having
ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle
East," McCain said." ... "This comment was initially prompted by a compliment
from a military veteran who stated that he hoped a group called "Swift
Boats for McCain come out and help" the GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican]
nominee. " ... "Of note -- McCain didn't object to the audience member's
suggestion that a so-called 'swift boat' group help him win the presidency.
Instead, he thanked the man for his good wishes and his military service."
-By Adam Aigner-Treworgy
-NationalJournal
 WATCH:
"McCain Implies Iraq War Is For Oil."
20080429
-
 Barack
Obama -  Hillary
Clinton -  Accounting
-  Indiana
-  North
Carolina -  Illinois
-  New
York
- Colorado
- 2008
Election - "Obama
Heads for Superdelegate Edge." ... "The 795 superdelegates,
who can vote for any nominee, fall into one of two groups -- the elected
and the unelected." ... "The elected are the party's 28 governors, 234
House members, 49 senators and assorted big-city mayors and state officeholders."
... "The nonelected superdelegates are the more than 400 national and state
party officers of the Democratic National Committee." ... "Among elected
officials, [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois
Senator Barack] Sen. Obama leads in endorsements from governors and senators.
He is behind among House members by one, but both camps expect him to pull
ahead unless he does badly in next Tuesday's Indiana and North Carolina
primaries. If he doesn't stumble, enough elected Democrats are expected
to back Sen. Obama after the last primaries June 3 to give him the delegate
majority needed for nomination." ... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate and New York Senator Hillary] Sen. Clinton still leads in endorsements
from nonelected officials. Many have known her and former [Democratic]
President Clinton since the couple's White House years, or worked for them
then." ... "About 300 of the 795 superdelegates remain uncommitted; they
don't have to endorse anyone until [August] Aug. 27 at the Democrats' Denver
[Colorado] convention." -By Jackie Calmes
-WSJ.com
20080420
-
 Don
Young -  Abramoff
-  Bob
Schaffer - Money
- Politics
-  Mariana
Islands
-  Chinese
-  Garment
- Factory
- Industry
-  Labor
-  Women
- Abortion
- Human
Rights -  Investigations
-  Government
- Immigration
-  Law-  History
- US
- Colorado
-  Alaska
- "Records
expose Young-Abramoff ties: MARIANA ISLANDS." ...
"[Alaska Republican Represenative] Rep. Don Young has said he never allowed
convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff to be an influential force over him in
Congress." ... "But now a trove of old billing records from two of Abramoff's
firms show that his team of lobbyists had more than 120 contacts with Young's
personal and committee staffs over 25 months, including at least 10 with
Young himself." ... "The available records cover a single Abramoff client,
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. [United States]
territory in the Pacific that Young oversaw when he chaired the House Resources
Committee from 1995 to 2001." ... "The records show that one of the looming
concerns of Abramoff and his fellow lobbyists at the time was a bill introduced
by Young's fellow Alaskan, [Republican Senator] Sen. Frank Murkowski, to
reform labor and immigration practices feeding the island's notorious Chinese-owned
sweatshops. In 2000, Murkowski's bill passed the Senate unanimously, but
Young stopped it cold in his committee, refusing to hold even a hearing."
... "Investigations by the government, media and human rights groups uncovered
widespread abuses in the garment industry and among sex workers there starting
in the mid-1990s, but Young asserted those investigations were bogus."
... "As a member of Young's Resources Committee, [Colorado Republican Representative
and 2008 Election Colorado Senator Candidate Bob] Schaffer took a free
trip to the Mariana Islands arranged by Abramoff's law firm, then played
a central role in a 1989 committee hearing investigating Interior department
officials in the [Democratic President Bill] Clinton administration who
were trying to rein in the Saipan government [Saipan is the Commonwealth
of the Northern Mariana Islands' capital]." ... "A growing number of reports
spoke of near slave-labor conditions, with workers kept in sealed compounds,
required to work seven days a week without overtime, and sometimes getting
no paycheck at all. There were widespread reports of women coerced into
getting abortions to keep their jobs. Some women hired abroad found themselves
working not in garment factories at all, but sex clubs." -By
Richard Mauer -ADN.com
20080412
-
Secret
- Jack
Abramoff - Bob
Schaffer - Money
- Politician
- Travel
- Garment
- Factories
- Lawmaker
- History
- Colo
-
 California
- American
-  Northern
Mariana Islands
- Labor
- Investigations
- "Schaffer,
lobbyist strategies meshed: The Coloradan's acts
align with an Abramoff plot; he denies any link." ... "In early 1998, now-jailed
[Republican] lobbyist Jack Abramoff sent a secret memo to a textile tycoon
on the Northern Mariana Islands, an American protectorate whose garment
factories had been heavily criticized for squalid working conditions and
abusive labor practices." ... "The lobbying plan focused on using congressional
oversight hearings to change the subject from factory conditions to political
shenanigans by the [Democratic President] Clinton administration. Abramoff's
lobbying team would prepare questions and "factual backup" for friendly
lawmakers. Trips to the island for congressmen and staff would be a key
tool to "build permanent friends," the memo said." ... "The linchpin would
be an attack on the Interior Department's Office of Insular Affairs (OIA),
which was the lead agency pushing for reform." ... "Twenty months later,
Republicans on the House Resources Committee, including [Colorado Republican
Representative] Rep. Bob Schaffer, R-Colo., turned what was supposed to
be an oversight hearing into an attack on OIA officials, suggesting that
federal employees were paying workers to protest and providing them signs,
cars and other resources." ... "Schaffer was one of the key players in
the hearing, grilling a young worker who had been called before the committee
to talk about the desperate conditions faced by some laborers, suggesting
instead that he was agitating in exchange for money and came to Washington
to seek political asylum." ... "The hearing provides a key context for
a trip to the islands that Schaffer had taken a month before, partly arranged
by Abramoff's lobbying firm and now an issue in Schaffer's campaign for
the U.S. [United States] Senate." ... "By the time Schaffer had flown to
the islands with his wife the month before, the protectorate's textile
industry had been the subject of dozens of government and journalistic
investigations, which documented abuses including debt servitude, coerced
abortions and squalid living conditions." ... "Preston-Gates, Abramoff's
firm, made the travel arrangements for Schaffer's August 1999 trip, according
to a memo to Schaffer from his staff. The $13,000 trip was paid for by
the Orange County[California]-based Traditional Values Coalition, which
later investigations showed was often used by Abramoff in his lobbying
operations." -By Michael Riley
-DenverPost.com
20080410
-
Jack
Abramoff - Bob
Schaffer - Criminal
- Money
- Politician
- Vacation
- Colorado
- US
- Mariana
Islands
- Textile
- Factory
- Immigration
- Human
Rights - Law
- 2008
Election - "Abramoff
ties cloud [Bob] Schaffer's '99 fact-finding trip."
... "Just before boarding a plane to the [Northern] Mariana Islands in
1999, [Colorado Republican Representative] then-Congressman Bob Schaffer
announced he was embarking on a fact-finding mission to get to the bottom
of repeated allegations of labor abuse in the American protectorate." ...
"What he didn't say was that the trip was partly arranged by the firm of
now-jailed [Republican] lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who represented textile
factory owners fighting congressional efforts to reform labor and immigration
laws on the islands and who was being handsomely paid to keep the islands'
cherished exemptions." ... "Schaffer and his wife stayed for free at a
palm-studded beach resort and, besides factories, also toured historical
sites and met with clients of Preston-Gates, Abramoff's firm, according
to a copy of the trip's agenda archived in Schaffer's congressional papers."
... "In a recent interview with The Denver Post, the Republican candidate
for Colorado's open Senate seat described the protectorate's guest-worker
program as a "model" lawmakers could use as they overhaul the U.S. [United
States] immigration system." ... "It has left Schaffer defending a guest-worker
program criticized in more than a decade of government reports and journalistic
exposés; and it links him to what Abramoff later boasted was an
incredibly successful lobbying effort to quash reform by cashing in on
ties to key House Republicans, including those on the House Resources Committee,
on which Schaffer sat." ... ""Given that many Republican members, including
Tom DeLay, Bob Ney and Conrad Burns, have lost their seat or gone to prison
based on their association with this criminal, it's pretty remarkable that
Schaffer seems to be proud of his association with these sleazy Abramoff-sponsored
junkets," said Taylor West, a spokeswoman for Schaffer's [2008 Election]
Democratic opponent, Mark Udall." ... "At heart of the issue is the islands'
massive textile industry, which is exempted from the U.S. minimum wage
as well as most American immigration laws. The Northern Marianas economy
is built on thousands of workers from China, the Philippines and Bangladesh,
some of whom pay labor recruiters as much as $7,000 to land a job on U.S.
soil." ... "A class-action lawsuit filed the year Schaffer toured the islands
alleged that many of those workers lived in slum conditions, housed seven
to a room in barracks surrounded by barbed wire designed to keep the workers
in. Workers in some factories labored 12 hours a day, seven days a week,
the suit alleged — without pay if they fell behind set quotas." ... "A
U.S. Interior Department investigation found that pregnant workers were
forced to get illegal abortions or lose their jobs. Some were recruited
for factories but forced into the sex trade instead." ... "Said Matthew
Miller, spokesman for the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee: "The fact
that (Schaffer) sided against the human rights of those workers, not just
then, but still today, shows he was more interested in doing the bidding
of the people who set up the trip than in actually investigating abuses.""
-By Michael Riley -DenverPost.com
-
Bob
Schaffer - Colorado
-
 Virginia
-  Video
- Ad
- Money
- Politics
- 2008
Election - "Schaffer
ad maker slapped: Watchdog group says law violated."
... "A national group behind a political ad showing schoolchildren repeatedly
thanking U.S. [Colorado Republican] Senate candidate Bob Schaffer for his
commitment to charter schools has run afoul of federal election laws."
... "U.S. Term Limits, a Virginia- based group, paid for the ad, which
includes a written disclaimer: "U.S. Term Limits does not endorse candidates
for public office."" ... "But when the ad was posted to YouTube .com, it
was labeled "Bob Schaffer for Senate video." That's considered election
advocacy, according to a national ethics watchdog group." ... "Anyone who
pays for an ad advocating the election or defeat of a candidate must file
a report with the Federal Election Commission within 48 hours after the
ad appears. No report was filed." ... "Schaffer, a Fort Collins Republican,
faces Democrat Mark Udall, of Eldorado Springs [Colorado], in November
[2008 Election]." -By Lynn Bartels
-RockyMountainNews.com
20080409
-
Bob
Schaffer - Jack
Abramoff - Criminal
- Money
- Politician
- Abortion
-
 Child
- Labor
- Female
- Textile
- Factory
- Immigration
- Human
Rights - Law
- History
- US
- Mariana
Islands
- 2008
Election - Colorado
- Vacation
- "Fashhhionating."
... "Earlier today we noted
that the [2008 Election] Republican Senate candidate from Colorado, Bob
Schaffer, told the Denver Post that America should adopt an immigration
and guest labor policy modeled on that of the Mariana Islands (aka the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) -- whose guest worker program
is notorious around the world for forced abortion, slavery, child prostitution,
sex trafficking, beatings, female workers kept in shacks with no plumbing
surrounded by barbed wire and other fun stuff [sarcasm]." ... "TPM Reader
AK
points out that the folks at ProgressNowAction have done
a little digging. And it seems that that back in 1999, when Schaffer
was serving in Congress, he went on one of those junkets to the Islands
put together by none other than disgraced lobbyist and now-federal inmate
Jack
Abramoff." ... "Those of you with a clear recollection of the details
of the Abramoff scandal will remember that one of Jack's biggest clients
was the
group of sharks who ran the Marianas sweat shops." ... "They had a
great thing going because they were able to slap Made In The USA
labels on clothes and other items made in Saipan [Northern Mariana Islands
capital] by female guest workers imported from other parts of East Asia
to work in sub-Third World labor conditions. That is, when the guest workers
weren't busy getting beaten, raped or coerced into having abortions. Jack's
job was to find politicians willing to travel with him on junkets to the
Marianas, hang out at the casinos and come back to the states and say how
well the labor conditions actually there seemed to be." ... "In any case,
it was just one of these junkets with Abramoff that then US Rep. Bob Schaffer
took back in 1999, which, as it happens, was a year after the release of
the Department of Labor report
that confirmed the 15 year old sex slave's account." -By
Josh Marshall -TalkingPointsMemo.com
Watch
TPMtv Video update: "...
Colorado senate candidate Bob Schaffer (R) says we should remodel
our national immigration policy on that of the Mariana Islands -- a program
notorious for child prostitution, forced abortions, beatings, slavery,
twelve hour days and sex trafficking. Now it turns out he went on a Jack
Abramoff junket to the islands and came back saying it was A-OK!"
-By Josh Marshall -Veracifier
-
Bob
Schaffer - Oil
- Money
- Politics
- Video
- Colorado
- 2008
Election - "'Thanks,
Bob' ad spawns spoof: 'Big oil' replaces 'charter
schools' in Schaffer spot." ... "An ad that features school children thanking
[2008 Election Colorado] Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer for his
commitment to charter schools has inspired a parody." ... "The spoof ad
shows "oil executives" bragging about record profits and thanking Schaffer
for supporting tax breaks for their industry." ... "Schaffer now works
for Aspect Energy LLC." ... "[About the parody, President of ProgressNow
Michael Huttner said:] "We did it with volunteers because we think Schaffer
has done a lot more for big oil than he has for kids."" ... "Huttner said
congressional records show Schaffer in 2001 voted for [Republican] President
Bush's energy plan. Democrats called it $33 billion giveaway to the energy
industry." -By Lynn Bartels
-RockyMountainNews.com
Watch
Parody Video: "Thanks
Bob - Bob Schaffer"
20080407
-
Bob
Schaffer - Corporate
- Colorado
- US
- Foreign
- Textile
- Worker
- Immigration
- Mariana
Islands
- 2008
Election - "Tricky
issue of immigration played down." ... "Calling America
a country perfectly "capable of multitasking," [2008 Election] Republican
Senate candidate Bob Schaffer said the U.S. [United States] ought to be
pursuing a guest- worker program at the same time it fortifies its borders."
... "He pointed to the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. protectorate that
imports tens of thousands of foreign textile workers, as a successful model
for a guest-worker program that could be adapted nationally." ... ""The
concept of prequalifying foreign workers in their home country under private-
sector management is a system that works very well in one place in America,"
he said of the islands' program. "I think members of Congress ought to
be looking at that model and be considering it as a possible basis for
a nationwide program."" -By Michael Riley
-DenverPost.com
20080323
-
2008
Election -
 Florida
-  Michigan
- Colorado
- "Choice
of Democratic nominee may rest with panel: Convention's
Credentials Commitee could have to decide on Fla., Mich. delegates." ...
"There are 186 people in this country who ultimately could select the Democratic
presidential nominee." ... "Most of them do not know they'll soon wield
such power. They will be picked by their state parties or by the party's
national chairman to be on the Credentials Committee to the Democratic
National Convention. It's normally a political reward, but this year the
job could seem more like punishment." ... "If the dispute over what to
do about Florida and Michigan — whose Democratic primary results have not
been recognized by the party — is not settled by the time Democrats gather
in August in Denver [Colorado], the Credentials Committee will probably
make the call on what to do about delegates from the rogue states, which
defied the party by moving up their primary dates." ... "The committee
could decide whether those delegates are seated at the convention, and
to which candidate they are pledged." ... "The ultimate winner of the nomination
could ride on the outcome." ... "The 186 Democrats that will form the committee
will be chosen during the next several months. DNC Chairman Howard Dean
appoints 25 of them, which he has already done." ... "The others are elected
by the state parties, based on population." -By Aaron
Gould Sheinin -AJC
20080210
-
 Dick
Cheney - Videos
-  Privacy
- Politics
- Colorado
- US
- Iraq
- Military
- "Cheney
fights release of videos: The VP's [Vice President's]
office worries depositions of two aides in a Golden [Colorado] man's civil
lawsuit may show up on YouTube." ... "The office of [Republican] Vice President
Dick Cheney is seeking to block the release of videotaped depositions given
by two aides who witnessed a physical encounter between an Iraq war opponent
and Cheney." ... "In a motion filed Saturday, Cheney's office contended
that the videotapes could be used to invade the privacy and embarrass two
aides called to testify about the encounter in a civil lawsuit. " -By
David Olinger -DenverPost.com
20080131
-
Jack
Abramoff
-
 John
A Boehner
-  John
T Doolittle
- Legal
- Politics
-  Ohio
- California
-  Georgia
-  Utah
- Colorado
- Indiana
- California
-  Texas
- "Fellow
Republicans Help Doolittle Pay Legal Bills Stemming From Abramoff Ties."
... "A House Republican under Justice Department investigation because
of ties to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff has garnered help with his
legal bills from a handful of colleagues, including [Ohio Republican Representative]
Minority Leader John
A. Boehner." ... "[California Republican Representative] Rep. John
T. Doolittle, R-Calif., reported in a filing made available Thursday
that his legal expense fund had received $5,000 from Boehner’s leadership
PAC. The money was part of $36,500 kicked in by GOP colleagues to Doolittle’s
legal defense between June 27, when he opened the fund, and year’s end."
... "Other Republican lawmakers who contributed money from their campaign
funds or leadership committees included [Republican Senator] Sens. Saxby
Chambliss of Georgia, [Republican Senator] Orrin
G. Hatch of Utah and [Republican Senator] Wayne
Allard of Colorado, and Reps. [Republican Representative] Dan
Burton of Indiana, [Republican Representative] Wally
Herger of California, [Republican Representative] Jack
Kingston of Georgia, [Republican Representative] Sam
Johnson of Texas, and [California Republican Representative] Howard
P. “Buck” McKeon and [Republican Representative] Dana
Rohrabacher of California." -By Kathleen Hunter
-CQPolitics.com
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