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from northampton massachusetts welcome to mid-week politics i'm david pack when
it's the week of october twenty eighth two thousand nine please visit our
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on everybody
because that somewhat we do but we are in the middle of our
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and we in this is the time this is the time to call and i'm missing anything
louis i think that's it
so i want to welcome p t_v_ in youngstown ohio which is going to be
airing a t_v_ version of the show starting this weekend and all along with
that we have kind of a significant announcement to make lewis
which is that
our
terrestrial listening
range
has grown and past the two million mark
this does it include podcast is doesn't include youtube but that the t_v_
stations and radio stations that are airing the show
which have been steadily growing for the last four plus years
we've passed the two million listener range which is absolutely huge forests
and uh... i know for you louis especially with all of the antics
thicket going during the show
this is the even more people
that could bear witness to
the incredible things that take place on camera to during the show
yes of course throwers are skewed ramona doesn't mean that there's actually two
people two million people week was too dangerous
general wanting us
but that's a
there there if the reader could be bright we're actually getting to that
many house households via t_v_ and radio so
let's move on as i want there's a lot to get into this week
and are right
don't know if all our listeners will remember i know we remember horace
cooper who is on the show couple of
months ago and then a couple of months before that
he's a
conservative
lawyer
who was a former house majority to house majority leader *** armey
line that
at the new media seminar in new york which is a talk radio seminar that takes
place every year
and he came on the show a couple of times and i was just uh... i don't know
it and how i came across to the other day
it turns out he was indicted
i don't believe that there's been a trial yet
this this actually extended to several of *** armey staffers
who were some of the first to be involved with our buddy jack abramoff it
seems everybody has been one where another
involved with jack abramoff at least when it comes to many conservative
inst
lobbyists
lawyers so on and so forth
apparently horace cooper provided and agreed to provide a stream of favorable
official action anti uses influence on behalf of jackie abramoff and a number
of others including his clients and its firm
these official actions are incurred included but are not limited to
helping jab jack abramoff secure
efforts from voice of america and the u_s_ department of state federal funds
and also to get money for jack abramoff snu reform television production
business this goes on and on and on apparently jack abramoff also treated
our buddy horace cooper two thousand thousands of dollars worth of free meals
edit signatures restaurant
coming up with the following scheme to conceal the exchange
horace cooper neighbor maas associates used to scheme were cooper would be
served
comp food being free food and drinks at signatures restaurant
but we usually present his credit card to the server
to create the appearance
that he is paying for the whole bill
instead of charging horse for the actual amount of food and drink provided
the server would charge cooper for a nominal items such as a lemonade or a
soft drink cooper would leave a tip on the credit card
cooper intended that this would make it appear to observers that he had paid for
his meals and drinks
when he actually did not
cooper also dined at signatures and other restaurants on numerous occasions
during which is new is either paid for directly by a lobbyist
or dining companion
or for which he left the cash tent and didn't use a credit card
that actually doesn't sound that bad even though it is a legal it if things
are being promised
you know horace cooper eric incredibly nice guy one of the few one of the most
conservative african-americans you'll ever meet
a cigar very unknowingly conservative cigar smoking
entire reducing carbon footprint guy
extremely nice guy
i'm a little surprised that he was involved in this but hey
uh... i guess we can't be too surprised ultimately this could happen ticket out
of the best of couldn't
there'd be interesting to have a back on the show
but now we're going to talk about the added interest in i thought about
sending him an email saying he wanted to come on but
i felt kind of weird about saying hey so i heard you got indicted when you come
on i can imagine he could really talk about much of what's going on right