Thursday, November 03, 2005

DeLay aide's memo betrays the playbook

This is from VirginiaDem over at the Daily Kos blogsite. VirginiaDem got this from the Salon.Com website. It is unbelievable.

To start. Mike Scanlon is the former business partner of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who Abramoff himself on trial for money laundering some $66 million of differing Indian tribes casino money for Congressional favors. A memo was read into record at the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, which is investigating this scandal. According to a memo, Scanlon said this:

"The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees," Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. "Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them."

Scanlon confessed the source code of recent Republican electoral victories: target religious conservatives, distract everyone else, and then railroad through complex initiatives.

Unbelievable.

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