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Saturday, December 17, 2005
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HUBBA HUBBA Forget Cato’s Doug Bandow, who, called on it by a reporter, admitted that he’d prostituted himself to lobbyist-in-doodoo Jack Abramoff -- and for all of $2,000 a column! A senior scholar at the Cato Institute, the respected libertarian research organization, has resigned after revelations that he took payments from the lobbyist Jack Abramoff in exchange for writing columns favorable to his clients. The scholar, Doug Bandow, who wrote a column for the Copley News Service in addition to serving as a Cato fellow, acknowledged to executives at the organization that he had taken money from Mr. Abramoff after he was confronted about the payments by a reporter from BusinessWeek Online. He’s all contrite now -- quit his position, blah blah. It’s another guy mentioned in the same New York Times article that UD finds herself fantasizing about: A second scholar, Peter Ferrara, of the Institute for Policy Innovation, acknowledged in the same BusinessWeek Online piece that he had also taken money from Mr. Abramoff in exchange for writing certain opinion articles. But Mr. Ferrara did not apologize for doing so. "I do that all the time," Mr. Ferrara was quoted as saying. He did not reply to an e-mail message seeking comment on Friday. I do that all the time, he scoffed! Come and get me coppers! UD likes this guy’s style and wants to marry him. .jpg) He even has a blog! It’s been rather somnolent since March. Fire it up again, Pete! |