The Washington Post has a long and very detailed piece today on Jack Abramoff's efforts in 2000 to defeat a bill banning most forms of internet gambling. It is worth reading, so I won't try to summarize except to say that Abramoff used his anti-gambling friends on the Christian Right to defeat an anti-gambling bill on behalf of an intenet gambling company.
It is an amazing story of unprincipled, no-holds-barred "lobbying." One could hope, I guess, that this type of stuff is unusual, but I suppose that would be naive.
Monday, October 17, 2005
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