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Ralph Reed
Former Executive director of the Christian Coalition; GOP operative and
Grassroots Lobbyist; Founder and President of Century Strategies; Close
associate of Jack Abramoff
Ralph Reed is the Pied Piper of the Religious Right, one of
Abramoff's oldest friends and closest business associates since
College Republican National Committee in the early 1980s.
A report by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, which spent
two years probing Abramoff's lobbying activities, disclosed that
Reed's consulting firm, Century Strategies in Duluth, Ga.,
received a total of $5.3 million from the Choctaws and the
Louisiana Coushattas tribe. The payments came from Preston
Gates & Ellis, where Abramoff worked in the late 1990s, and
from two Scanlon run entities, the American International Center
and the consulting firm Capitol Campaign Strategies.
But the committee's report didn't include another $1 million that
was funneled to Century Strategies through anti-tax activist
Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform. The Mississippi
Choctaws provided that money in 1999 for a successful drive in
Alabama spearheaded by Reed and other religious
conservatives against a proposed education state lottery and a
video-poker bill in the state Legislature that threatened Choctaw
revenues.
<link to more at GQ>
<link to more at NationalJournal>
<link to more at Century Strategies>
<link to more at Indianz.com>
<link to more at AJC>
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| photo: TIME magazine Jack Abramoff, political lobbyist for the Bush White House, was central to a series of high-profile political scandals. |
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| photo: conservapedia Ralph Reed took millions from Indian Casinos to fight other Indian Casinos under the banner of family values. |