{"id":191,"date":"2005-12-17T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2005-12-17T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/abramoff-paid-for-favorable-news-just-like-duhbya\/"},"modified":"2005-12-17T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2005-12-17T22:22:09","slug":"abramoff-paid-for-favorable-news-just-like-duhbya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/abramoff-paid-for-favorable-news-just-like-duhbya\/","title":{"rendered":"Abramoff Paid for Favorable News — Just like Duhbya"},"content":{"rendered":"

2nd Senator to Return Abramoff Funds; Lobbyist Paid Columnist<\/a> By <\/p>\n

Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n

Copley News Service syndicated columnist Doug Bandow admitted accepting <\/p>\n

money from Abramoff for writing as many as 24 op-ed articles favorable to some of Abramoff’s clients<\/strong>. Copley suspended the <\/p>\n

column pending a review and Bandow resigned as a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute. …<\/p>\n

Jamie Dettmer, Cato’s <\/p>\n

communications director, said officials at the think tank learned of the payments Tuesday when contacted by a reporter for Business Week, <\/p>\n

which reported the story on its Web site yesterday. Bandow admitted writing as many as two dozen articles for payments from Abramoff of <\/p>\n

between $1,000 to $2,000 per piece, Dettmer said.<\/p>\n

“We accepted his resignation,” Dettmer said. “Doug acknowledges it was a serious <\/p>\n

lapse in judgment. This is a think tank that has a lot of integrity, and we are very zealous guardians of the reputation of this think <\/p>\n

tank. . . . We are secure in the knowledge that our other scholars have not been doing this.<\/strong>” [mjh: <\/p>\n

why are they so sure?]<\/span><\/p>\n

Bandow, who was hospitalized in San Diego for knee surgery, could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

Another person who has admitted accepting payment from Abramoff for favorable op-ed pieces<\/strong> is Peter J. Ferrara, a <\/p>\n

Social Security expert and senior policy adviser at the Institute for Policy Innovation, Business Week reported. In a telephone <\/p>\n

interview, Ferrara said he has stopped writing columns for lobbying firms but sees nothing wrong with the practice as long as he is <\/p>\n

expressing his own views.<\/p>\n

On Capitol Hill, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) became the first Republican to call for an overhaul of <\/p>\n

lobbying laws as a way to clean up in the wake of the Abramoff scandals. Previously, only Democrats had proposed tightening the <\/p>\n

rules<\/strong> in reaction to the ties between lobbyists and lawmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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