Rep. Dolittle Tied to Convicted Abramoff

The corruption of the Republican Party just rolls on. Steve Soto of The Left Coaster notes the latest on the cozy Dolittle and Abramoff relationship in The Sacramento Bee:

The Sacramento Bee runs a Page One story today that ties local GOP Representative and the aptly-named John Doolittle directly into Jack Abramoff’s web of profit-making opportunities to exploit sweatshop labor from the Mariana Islands.

Rep. John Doolittle helped Jack Abramoff secure a lucrative lobbying contract with the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in 1999 and then assisted the now-disgraced lobbyist's efforts to route federal money to the islands and defend its garment industry, newly obtained documents show.

The San Diego Union-Tribune and The Sacramento Bee have been shining a bright light on some strange going ons in the Republican Party in California. Maybe some of the other newspapers in Southern California can catch up.