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To: WoofDog123
"Court records also indicate Scruggs sent $10 million in initial tobacco payments to Blake, passing them through intermediary Joey Langston, a Booneville attorney who shared Scruggs' ride to fortune on Moore's tobacco train."

Yet another example of how the tobacco settlement was never about "public health" it was just a massive democrat campaign donation scheme. The whole global warming hoax is an even bigger example of this.

11 posted on 12/19/2007 3:59:03 PM PST by boop (Who doesn't love poison pot pies?)
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To: boop

“Yet another example of how the tobacco settlement was never about “public health” it was just a massive democrat campaign donation scheme.”

why democrats? You think something this big isn’t bipartisan?


15 posted on 12/19/2007 4:21:26 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: boop

A fundraiser for Hillary Clinton scheduled for Dec. 15th in Oxford, MS, at the home of plaintiffs attorney, Dickie Scruggs, has been cancelled, according to a MS Democratic State Executive Committee member.

Scruggs was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury into allegations that he attempted to bribe a judge. Scruggs is brother-in-law to Sen. Trent Lott who recently announced his forthcoming resignation.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=5041

OXFORD (AP) — A Dec. 15 fundraiser at the Oxford home of attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs for the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and featuring former President Bill Clinton has been canceled, a campaign official said Thursday.

“In light of new developments we have canceled the event,” said Blake Zeff, a campaign spokesman.

Zeff did not elaborate on the announcement.

http://www.picayuneitem.com/local/local_story_334121353.html

trent lott’s brother in law, clinton fundraiser,
lead tobacco lawyer in the master-tobacco settlement
(estimated in 2000 to be over $206 BILLION)
centered in the texarkana courthouse,
was indicted yesterday for trying to bribe a state judge
in Katrina related insurance suit.
(one day after Lott’s resignation announcement)

during the tobacco litigation, officeholders included

president bill clinton
gov. g.w.bush (later president)
gov. mike huckabee (later candidate for president)
tx atty general morales (later convicted)
tx atty general cornyn (later senator)
ark atty general pryor (later senator)


20 posted on 12/19/2007 6:06:35 PM PST by muleboy (muleboy303.blogspot.com)
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To: boop
Yet another example of how the tobacco settlement was never about "public health" it was just a massive democrat campaign donation scheme.

Exactly!

22 posted on 12/19/2007 6:25:21 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: boop
Yet another example of how the tobacco settlement was never about "public health" it was just a massive democrat campaign donation scheme. The whole global warming hoax is an even bigger example of this.

The tobacco lawsuits were never about healthcare....this has always been about redistribution of wealth.

37 posted on 12/20/2007 9:58:43 AM PST by truthluva ("Character is doing the right thing even when no one is looking" - JC Watts)
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