Ney doesn't recall extorting money from Indian tribes

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Ohio Rep. Bob Ney, center, poses with Tigua Tribe Lt. Governor Carlos Hisa, right, and Raul Gutierrez, then a member of the tribes governing council in a hearing room after a meeting with Ney on Capitol Hill in August 2002.

Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney didn't recall meeting with members of the Tigua tribe of Texas when Senate investigators questioned him during a probe of rogue lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

But leaders of the El Paso tribe who lost $4.2 million to Abramoff remember small details of their get-together in Ney's Capitol Hill office and even took pictures with Ney.

The meeting with Ney occurred on August 14, 2002, a few days after the congressman and two of his aides returned from a golf trip in Scotland with Abramoff, former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed, a pair of lobbyists at Abramoff's firm, and former White House official David Safavian, who was convicted last week of lying to investigators about the trip.

"He was red like a lobster from that Scotland trip and had a terrible sunburn," recalled Tigua Lt. Governor Carlos Hisa, who said his tribe was asked to pay $50,000 for the trip. When it balked, two other tribal clients of Abramoff's paid $100,000 to cover their expenses.

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[in_cog_ni_to]

1. Too bad there's pictures showing him a liar. I suspect the new game plan

for repuke fraud will be...NO PICTURES ALLOWED!!! I can't believe that man is still in office.

[gratuitous]

2. Give Ney a break, wouldja?

I mean, he can't possibly remember everybody he took bribes from or on behalf of. Heck, the Green River killer doesn't remember every last victim he offed, why should you expect Ney to remember where every penny of all that lovely, lovely money came from? He's clearly suffered enough, and the good people of Ohio should re-elect him so that he can help clean up this corruption that he knows about so intimately. Who better than Ney, you know?

Oh, and in case you haven't figured it out: /sarcasm.

[zbdent]

3. "Not that I recall" was not allowed only once

in Clinton's case.

However, Reagan, North, Bush41, the 1995-present Republiconvicts . . .