Right-Wing Magazine: Veco Oil Scandal Contributed To Lott’s Resignation
Right-Wing Magazine: Veco Oil Scandal Contributed To Lott’s Resignation
Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) refuses to say why he is retiring from Congress. Many in the media have reported that Lott likely wants to enter the lucrative world of K Street before “tougher restrictions in a new lobbying law” take effect.
But the right-wing American Spectator magazine speculates that brewing corruption scandals may have contributed to Lott’s decision:
The tin-foil-hat crowd was almost immediately pushing a Jack Abramoff angle to the surprise resignation of Sen. Trent Lott. But a more recent scandal brewing — which has already ensnared Sen. Ted Stevens, among others — may also be playing on Lott’s mind.
Lott, Stevens, as well as Rep. Dennis Hastert all have ties to Bill Allen, a larger than life Alaskan businessman who owned Veco, an oil-field services company, and who was a huge benefactor of Republican politicians.
Allen has pleaded guilty to bribing Alaska legislators, including Ben Stevens, the son of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK). The elder Stevens is currently the target of multiple federal investigation, including one on his ties to Veco.
Lott continues to stand by Stevens, donating $5,000 from his political action committee to Stevens’s re-election campaign. Lott also has ties to Allen, who accompanied him to the lavish annual “Waterfall Fishing Tournament” in Alaska. Since 1996, at least 10 current and former lawmakers have attended the trip, an opportunity for “the energy industry’s top brass” to influence lawmakers.
In addition to the lawmakers, high-ranking executives from the nation’s top oil firms — including Allen — attended the Waterfall excursions. Companies with business before Congress occasionally provided free trips to Waterfall for lawmakers and top executives on private company jets. Lawmakers may have violated congressional ethics rules by not paying for the trips. Marketplace, which originally reported on the event, noted that it could find no PAC, personal, or campaign payments for the trip from Lott.
Below is a picture of Lott next to Allen at the Waterfall Resort:
UPDATE: Larry Flynt’s Hustler offers another reason for the senator’s resignation: “Senator Lott has been the target of an ongoing HUSTLER investigation for some time now, due to confidential information that we have received.”
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Lott is retiring to spend more time with his toupee. Simple as that.
November 27th, 2007 at 4:05 pmSo is the Spectator a right wing magazine that is also a magazine with standards? Or is this a once in a life-time kind of article they ran?
November 27th, 2007 at 4:06 pmCan you say racistfascistasscyst?
November 27th, 2007 at 4:12 pmTime to start a defense fund.
November 27th, 2007 at 4:19 pmGee, you don’t really think that Lott has been stuffing cash into the refrigerator, freezer, closet, off-shore banks, etc.?
November 27th, 2007 at 4:26 pmUh-Oh!!
Here come the gay hookers!!
November 27th, 2007 at 4:28 pmA republican crook? Who knew?
tombaker, actually Lott was accused of being involved with a male escort named Benjamin Nicholas, but those rumors are so far unsubstantiated. Wouldn’t be surprised if that were also true - considering how ‘religious’ Lott is.
November 27th, 2007 at 4:32 pmLarry Flynt! Keep at it.
November 27th, 2007 at 4:33 pmWell, if a *rightwing* rag is reporting this, it has GOT to be at least 10 times worse…
November 27th, 2007 at 4:33 pmUPDATE: Larry Flynt’s Hustler offers another reason for the senator’s resignation: “Senator Lott has been the target of an ongoing HUSTLER investigation for some time now, due to confidential information that we have received.â€
I bet it has something to do with that beaver pelt he wears on his head…
November 27th, 2007 at 4:40 pmRut roh!!! Looks like Lott may have been eating too many scooby snacks uh Benji!!!
Can it be? Another CLOSET GAY FASCIST REPUKIAN? Don’t tell me it’s so…my, my, this won’t look good for the Gross Old Repukians come ‘08, now will it. One more nail in their coffin.
Bush/Cheney
Hague Trials ‘09
Buck Fush
November 27th, 2007 at 4:42 pm11,
November 27th, 2007 at 4:42 pmZ’str, I thought is was skunk skin, but whatever…
It is scientific fact that only republicans are involved with big-money lobbyists.
November 27th, 2007 at 4:43 pmI bet it has something to do with that beaver pelt he wears on his head…
Comment by Zooey — November 27, 2007 @ 4:40 pm
You mean a Merkin? LOL
November 27th, 2007 at 4:44 pmNature Rules, are you saying Senator Lott isn’t A’Merkin?
And what other name does a Merkin go by?
ta-dah!
BUSH!
November 27th, 2007 at 4:49 pmZimzone, good one. What cums around goes around!
November 27th, 2007 at 4:56 pmYou mean a Merkin? LOL
Comment by Nature Rules — November 27, 2007 @ 4:44 pm
Exactly. :-D
I learn something new every day…..
November 27th, 2007 at 5:01 pmLott will not make it in lobby world…….This investigation will be taking down more members of Congress soon……..The Next Sentor is Kit Bond stay tune..
November 27th, 2007 at 5:03 pmI called it. When it was announced, I said it was because an investigation was getting to close. Lott and Hastert both.
November 27th, 2007 at 5:04 pmLook at the photo, I bet he’s wearing that turtleneck to cover up the suck marks on his neck.
November 27th, 2007 at 5:23 pmSo all these gay-bashing rethugliscums are nothing but a bunch of closet-cases. That would include our dear president, little Georgie W. Bush too. Don’t kid yourself. Just look at the adoring eyes his boyfriend Alberto G. flashes at his man Bush in every photo taken. What’s sad is not that they’re gay; it’s that they try to hide it and in so doing do their level best to make out and proud gay people second class citizens. So shameful. I bet that Jeff Gannon could talk, if his mouth wasn’t full of republican d**k.
November 27th, 2007 at 5:26 pmThe next couple years are shaping up to provide much amusement as we watch the Reps turn on each other in vain attempts to keep a bit of relevance.
November 27th, 2007 at 5:27 pmTerm Limits !!! Term Limits !!! Term Limits !!!It seems to be the only solution the American people have to defend ourselves from these greedy, corrupt, pigs.
November 27th, 2007 at 5:27 pmSo Trent Lott’s toupee is made from the plucked hair of Bush’s pubes? Is that what you guys are getting at? It must be a big honor. Mr. P would be in 7th Heaven to be able to wear one of those Bush toupees.
November 27th, 2007 at 5:41 pmHere are just some of Trent Lott’s potential future careers…
November 27th, 2007 at 5:44 pmWhy can Lott (through his “political action committee”) contribute $5000 to Stevens’ campaign but private citizens are prohibited from contributing more than $2300 to a single campaign?
November 27th, 2007 at 6:04 pmIf the PACs can “contribute” to a campaign, then they need to be restricted to the same limits that ordinary citizens are.
I just spent several minutes looking for photos of Mrs. Patricia Thompson Lott on the net. I found three photos, all very old. No new photo of the couple together, even on his web site. tin foil hat says “beard.”
November 27th, 2007 at 6:23 pmhttp://www.towleroad.com/2007/11/is-a-male-escor.html
November 27th, 2007 at 6:23 pmMaybe Veco rebuilt his porch after Katrina.
November 27th, 2007 at 7:36 pmAlso from the Wiki entry on Merkin:
November 28th, 2007 at 2:01 amHoughton Mifflin’s American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition describes the term’s etymology as stemming from an “alteration of obsolete malkin, lower-class woman, mop, from Middle English; from Malkin, diminutive of the personal name Matilda.”
I think the Repukes look at gay sexual involvement as something Romanesque, like its not for the ladies to be involved in a man’s job, and crap like that. They look at it like a male bonding thing, involving power and control.
November 28th, 2007 at 2:09 amI have a friend who works on the slope in Alaska and he tells me that a whole bunch of congressman are going down for taking bribes from oil companies.
November 28th, 2007 at 2:43 amLarry Flynt’s info and this new oil scandal may put Lott in jail next to Abramoff.
November 28th, 2007 at 9:23 amAs we were saying yesterday Lott’s an old toe-tapping pervert like Larry Craig.
November 28th, 2007 at 9:24 am