According to a FOX News survey of Americans, 44% think their members of congress have taken bribes. Bribes not only from people like Jack Abramoff, but bribes from all types of well-heeled “special interests” people and groups.

But, I would contend that bribes don’t just happen at the elected level. According to Dictionary.com, the primary definition of a bribe is this: Something, such as money or a favor, offered or given to a person in a position of trust to influence that person’s views or conduct.

So, in the matter of my favorite live horse to beat (i.e., Ralph Reed), it doesn’t matter that he “hasn’t been charged with anything”, or so as every newswriter likes to insert in every story they write about Ralph Reed.

What matters is, Ralph Reed took a bribe of $4.1 million+ in Indian gambling money to manipulate other Christian conservatives into thinking it was a worthwhile cause to fight against the Alabama lottery, new casinos in Louisiana, and any other threat to his ultimate client (that being an Indian tribe that wanted to protect its territory in the gambling arena). Unbeknownst to them, all they were doing was wiping-out competition in favor of (pretty much) granting a monopoly to one tribe’s business interests.

Yes, Ralph Reed knew who was paying his bills. He is the one who set-up the laundering operation in Alabama so that money from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians could be paid to Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform operation who then paid the Alabama Christian Coalition who then paid Ralph Reed.

Jack Abramoff DID NOT have those kinds of connections in Alabama to make that laundering operation work…it was all developed by little Ralphie Poo…whose religious principles and integrity can be bought for money. And, this is the guy who thinks he should be elected Lt. Governor of Georgia?

Thanks, but, I’ll pass on electing anyone to public office whose principles and integrity can be compromised so easily.

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