Cheap, sordid, tawdry affairs.
Posted by: Donna
I’m looking right at you, Mayor Gordon. No, not because of your girlfriend, but for who you immediately got into bed with when it began to look like you might face scrutiny for certain financial transactions associated with the relationship.
Jason Rose??!?
Rose has been a busy little turd-polishing flack these days. Just last Saturday he and another of his prominent clients, Joe Arpaio, helped to raise over $100k for JD Hayworth. No, not for Hayworth’s potential Senate run against John McCain. It was to help pay JD’s legal fees for being the target of investigation due to his association with former high-powered lobbyist and current jailbird Jack Abramoff.
Most people’s understanding of the Abramoff scandal is hazy – something about Indian tribes and gambling and campaign contributions and skyboxes – but there was a horrifying aspect of it that, in my opinion, was given far less coverage than it warranted. There are certain things you can know about a person that tell you everything you need to know about that person.
Jack Abramoff lobbied and paid off members of Congress to maintain sweatshops, sexual slavery, and forced abortions in the Marianas Islands. From the TPM article:
For months, activists and members of Congress pushed for labor reforms in the Northern Marianas, an American territory that was rife with cases of human rights abuses. The teenaged girl [Representative] Hall attacked (referred to by lawyers and activists by her stage name, “Katrina,” to protect her anonymity) was just one of those cases.
The billing records from Abramoff’s lobbying firm, Preston Gates, show that Abramoff and his associates logged long hours helping CNMI dodge such charges. Hall’s office worked closely with Abramoff’s team to compose the lawmaker’s statement on Katrina, according to those same records.
That’s JD’s skybox buddy. Make no mistake, Hayworth knew about it. I don’t know what Jason Rose knows about Abramoff’s efforts to protect the existence of sweatshops, sexual slavery, and forced abortions in Saipan. Somehow, I don’t think the knowledge would bother him that much. And that’s what bothers me about Phil Gordon, whom I find to be a likable and competent guy for the most part, when he sidles up to certain elements of the GOP in Arizona.
Phil, it’s not because they’re Republicans. It’s because they’re scumbags.
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You are so right on. I thought less of Gordon the moment I saw Jason Rose was his spokesperson in an article.
Did you catch what zelph pointed out that Jason Rose wrote on his twitter? He seemed to imply that Tom Horne was having an affair, without directly saying it.
Not that it’s easy for me to feel any sympathy for Tom Horne, ever, but it seems he’s been targeted by the GOP for career termination.