[elc]

Taking money from a lobbyist is not a crime. Doing favors, writing and pushing legislation, providing regulatory relief and doing favors for money and gifts are all illegal.

I think this is an important fact that people are missing, especially when we are looking at the list provided here. How do we know what were legal contributions and what were not? Many of the Dems and Repubs on this list may have received legal donations from Abramoff and his cohorts. Only time will tell.

[MNJohnnie]

The point is the Democrat Leadership have engaged in a campaign of guilt by association. Very well. IF the GOP are guilty by association WHAT does that say about a Political Party that knowing they were equally guilty, tried to use this issue for political propganda? Just another example of the Democrat Party's Culture of Corruption.