Jack Abramoff

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The DSCC took another swipe at US Senate candidate Bob Schaffer today on the Mariana Islands controversy. In a press release issued today DSCC spokeman Matthew Miller rips Schaffer for allowing "human rights abuses to continue," while the Schaffer campaign manager, Dick Wadhams accused Schaffer opponent, Mark Udall, of being a hypocrite on the Mariana controversy.

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Schaffer didn’t look so vapid when he was parasailing off the Mariana Islands. We saw the picture on ColoradoPols, just like everyone else. You can see the TPM video that explains the whole story in a nutshell.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer is getting a second consecutive day of tough press coverage from the Denver Post. At issue, once again, is Schaffer’s relationship with jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Today the paper reports that Schaeffer – on two separate occasions – endorsed Benigno Fitial, the governor of the Northern Mariana Islands and an ally of Abramoff’s.

The stories are providing fodder for national Democrats who see the race as a pickup opportunity. Today, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee blasted the story out to political reporters with the subject line, “Bob Schaffer’s Growing Abramoff Problem.”

On Thursday, the Post reported on Schaffer’s 1999 fact-finding trip to the Mariana Islands – a trip that was partly arranged by Abramoff, who at the time was fighting congressional attempts to clean up the island’s labor practices.

The Denver Post today takes a look at Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer’s 1999 fact-finding trip to the Mariana Islands – a trip that was partly arranged by now-jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who at the time was fighting congressional attempts to clean up the island’s labor practices.