| Whenever Spike Maynard opens his mouth he ends up shooting himself in the foot. He really should get that condition checked on.
In his latest ad playing on bigotry, WV-03 Republican candidate Spike Maynard goes after longtime U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall for a campaign contribution that Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi made to a past campaign.
Except Abdul_Rahman_al-Amoudi -- you can read about him here -- also gave money to then President George W. Bush and the National Republican Congressional Committee].
Then al-Amoudi got in serious legal trouble:
In 2004 he pled guilty to three charges of illegal financial transactions with the Libyan government, unlawful procurement of citizenship and impeding administration of the Internal Revenue Service, as well as a role in a Libyan conspiracy to assassinate then-Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. He agreed to cooperate in ongoing investigations in return for prosecutors dropping 31 other counts and possible reduction in a pending 23-year sentence and $750,000 in fines.[2][3] He was sentenced to 23 years in October 2004.[1]
After the accusations arose in 2003, Bush returned the contribution from Abdul_Rahman_al-Amoudi. Rahall one-upped Bush and passed the contribution on to the Memorial Baptist Church in Beckley as a donation to help a missionary program in Palestine.
But guess who kept what Spike Maynard calls a contribution from a man who financed terrorism? The National Republican Congressional Committee. You can look it up here. That's the same NRCC that is helping fund Maynard's political campaign against Rahall. For all we know the very same dollars that al-Amoudi gave the NRCC is funding the smear job commercial against Rahall for money that he donated to a church.
But, as they say in the commercials, that's not all. al-Amoudi also supported rightwinger Grover Norquist and his so-called "Americans for Tax Reform." Norquist and ATR are supporting Maynard.
If Spike wants to cast stones at anyone, he should look in the mirror and begin there. |
