By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICKWe've got the issue - Republican corruption. This was a great gimmick for pointing it up, and it was picked up by national media.
GREAT FALLS, Mont., Feb. 27 — At a meeting with Senator Conrad Burns here last weekend, the Little Shell Chippewa tribe presented him with ropes of woven sweetgrass, a ceremonial tobacco pouch and a traditional drum dance. But it was the blank envelope one speaker slipped to the senator that attracted the most attention.
"There is no money in it!" James Parker Shield, vice chairman of the tribe, protested to roars of laughter — a joke everyone knew referred to Mr. Burns's ties to Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist who has pleaded guilty to defrauding American Indians of millions of dollars and engaging in schemes to bribe members of Congress.
I really like it. [grin]
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