2 Tied to Abramoff Paid White House 100 Visits
2006-09-21
Source: Los Angeles Times
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rss feedRepublican activists Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed have visited the White House more than 100 times since 2001, according to documents made available by the White House on Wednesday.
The documents were released in response to litigation intended to make public the participation in White House meetings by people associated with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
All told, nine people associated with Abramoff or others linked to recent corruption scandals paid 236 visits to the White House from 2001 to the beginning of 2006, according to the records.
The account of the visits fleshes out well-established connections between figures in the Abramoff scandal and the White House. But it also suggests the regularity of White House meetings involving Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and Reed, former executive director of the Christian Coalition, who, like Norquist, has long been active in conservative politics.
The records show that Norquist was cleared for 97 White House visits and Reed 18.
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