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Date: August 24, 2007 6:57:26 PM PDT
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Subject: Mark Foley's (and Jack Abramoff's) GOPals Whack Themselves
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Republican Consultant, 2 Others
Found Dead in Fla. Home
(08/24/07 -- ORLANDO, Fla) - A Republican political consultant and
two other men were found dead in a home in an apparent double-
murder and suicide, authorities and relatives said.
Authorities have not determined a motive for the deaths of Ralph
Gonzalez, 39, his roommate, David Abrami, 36, and a friend, Robert
Drake, 30.
Investigators found weapons and signs of a struggle in the house,
but they did not say what the weapons were or which man they
believe was the killer. The men are believed to have died several
days before the bodies were discovered Thursday.
Gonzalez was executive director of the Georgia Republican Party
from 2001-2002. He managed U.S. Rep. **Tom Feeney's 2002 campaign
and was president of Strategum Group, an Orlando-based political
consulting firm that represents Republican candidates.
"He was a born political consultant. He had bravado, he was
intense, and he lived and breathed tactics and strategy," Feeney
said. "He was an adviser and strategist for me and became a very
good friend."
***Abrami, an attorney, was active in Republican politics as well.
Gonzalez, the son of Cuban immigrants, was devoted to politics even
as a youth, said his father, Rafael Gonzalez of Miami. He graduated
from Florida International University and received his master's
degree in campaign management at the University of Florida.
"He was a smart person who built a business by himself," Rafael
Gonzalez said. "He traveled all over the world."
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http://wonkette.com/politics/through-the-looking-glass-dept'/
mysterious-florida-deaths-involve-gop-consultant-god-knows-what-
else-293102.php
Florida Today ran a story that this morning referred to an unnamed
“detective” who called the deaths the result of a [gay] “lovers’
quarrel,” though, mysteriously, that language seems to have
disappeared from their AP report.
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?
articleID=14840
... [Mark] Foley is the fourth Republican to resign from the House
under an ethical cloud in the past year, joining indicted former
Majority Leader Tom Delay of Texas, and soon-to-be-jailed Bob Ney
of Ohio, who pled guilty in the ongoing influence-peddling
investigation of Jack Abramoff. Mr. Feeney is the only remaining
congressman not yet indicted in the group that received a posh golf
junket to Scotland paid for by convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Again this year, Feeney has been listed as one of the “Most Corrupt
Members of Congress” by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington (CREW).
Clint Curtis is the Democratic Candidate for Congress in Florida’s
24th District. A computer programmer, election integrity advocate
and whistleblower, Curtis has charged that his opponent Rep. Tom
Feeney, among other well-documented misdeeds, asked him to create
an electronic vote-rigging computer program while they both worked
for the same computer firm in Oviedo, FL in 2000.
Clint Curtis, Democratic challenger to Rep. Feeney in Florida’s
24th Congressional District, today called on his opponent, a Deputy
Whip in the GOP House leadership, to fully explain his involvement
in the [Mark Foley] scandal embroiling the House Republicans. As
reported by AP, [Feeney was] informed of disgraced Rep. Mark
Foley's (R-FL-16) abhorrent sexual predatory behavior with minors
in the congressional page program nearly a year ago, yet apparently
took no action until forced by public outcry last Friday.
As a member of the GOP leadership, Feeney worked closely with Foley
as a fellow Deputy Majority Whip in the House, as a colleague in
the Florida caucus, and on legislation for the House Caucus on
Missing and Exploited Children. Like Mr. Foley, Mr. Feeney has
often trumpeted his work to protect children against sexual
predators. “If Mr. Feeney knew of and let continue Mr. Foleys
sexual overtures to a 16 year old male high school student
interning with the Congressman, his sincerity in protecting
children is definitely in question.”
“Feeney owes a full explanation to all Floridians in the 24th
District and across the state -- about when he learned of Foley’s
predatory behavior and what actions, if any, he took to protect the
kids in this matter.
http://thehill.com/house--call/inside-rep.-feeneys-dorm-
room-2007-03-20.html
... Impeccably dressed Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Fla.), former Speaker of
the Florida House, walk into the place he calls home. He’s the
picture of congressional perfection in a powder blue, button-down
shirt, pinstriped gray trousers and a dark blue striped tie.
Feeney, 48, who has lived here since he came to Congress in 2003,
allegedly had the one-bedroom apartment professionally cleaned
before The Hill came to report this invasive story. But you
wouldn’t know it. Even after the $180 maid service did its best,
you walk into a scene of cluttered papers, ties thrown into heaps
on three wall racks, and a bed apparently thrown together in a mad
rush of lumps and wrinkles.
One thing is certain: Feeney, all smiles and upbeat, is proud of
his Washington dwelling, bunk bed and all. The bunks are for when
his sons, Tommy, 14, and Sean, 8, or his father, another Tom
Feeney, come to visit. The lawmaker crashes in a king-size bed that
monopolizes the main room.
The bottom bunk seems the best place to sit for the interview.
(Other than that there’s only the floor or the “master” bed and
both would seem, well, awkward.)
Florida dietitians recently visited him. “They were really
concerned about my health,” said the tanned and fit congressman.
He is clearly conscious of the way he looks. Not a blond Floridian
hair is out of place, although the lawmaker doesn’t give the
impression of being prissy about it.
Feeney doesn’t always live like a 20-year-old bachelor. His real
home, 70 miles from the beach in Oviedo, Fla., is a 3,600-square-
foot house in a cul de sac ...
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***"ABRAMI and Guns
http://wonkette.com/politics/through-the-looking-glass-dept'/
mysterious-florida-deaths-involve-gop-consultant-god-knows-what-
else-293102.php
Orlando, Fla. - A right-wing Young Republican group, bowing to
pressure from the US Secret Service, yesterday backed off plans to
use enlarged photos of President-elect Bill Clinton as targets for
a weekend turkey shoot.
"They came down hard on us, saying we threatened the President,
things like that," said David Abrami, vice president of the Central
Florida Young Republican Club. "So we canceled it."
When Abrami heard the Secret Service was investigating, he was
worried. Yesterday morning, he spoke with the Secret Service, then
decided to cancel the event.
"We just figured he's head of the Democratic Party right now, and
we're Republicans," said Abrami. "We thought it would be a nice
parody. We didn't mean any ill will by it.""
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