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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>MY WORD</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>DENVER</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> NELSON</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The article in Saturday’s Times-Standard:
“Former Bush Cabinet deputy pleads guilty” illustrates the greatest
problem with our government today. Billions of dollars are spent to
influence our elected and appointed government officials. We here on the North
coast have nowhere near enough money to be of significant influence.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>All of these crooks worked on </span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Klamath River</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> issues, and most of them came to
the Klamath to “get our input on Klamath issues.” Now that
their true character has been exposed, their “work” on the Klamath
appears to be hypocritical. </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Gale Norton</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><img width=87
height=118 src="cid:image001.jpg@01C79CC4.7F784520"></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Gale Norton resigned from being Secretary of Interior in
March, 2006 as the Abramoff scandals were breaking. As Secretary of
Interior, she invested much time and effort on Klamath issues including coming
to </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Klamath Falls</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> and opening the gates to divert
water from the river to the irrigation projects. </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Norton and Italia Federici co-founded the Council of
Republicans for Environmental Advocacy (CREA) in 1998 before Norton became
Interior Secretary. Norton's ties to the group have pulled her into the
Abramoff investigation. Norton attended a private dinner with Abramoff, his
tribal clients and other Interior officials organized by the advocacy group's
president, Italia Federici. Investigators believe Abramoff steered
$500,000 in tribal donations to CREA to get access to top Interior officials,
including Norton. She later approved casino deals favoring the tribal
clients.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>J. Stephen
Griles </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><img width=104
height=94 src="cid:image002.jpg@01C79CC4.7F784520"></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Griles is awaiting sentencing for lying about being
Abramoff”s inside man for tribal clients who needed Interior Department
actions. Griles and Abramoff met on </span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>March 1, 2001</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>, through Italia Federici, cofounder
of CREA. One week later, Griles, who had been serving on Bush's transition
team for Interior, was nominated by the president as deputy to Interior
Secretary Gale Norton. Second in rank only to Norton, Griles effectively was
Interior's chief operating officer while at the agency between July 2001 and
January 2005.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Italia Federici</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><img width=123
height=83 src="cid:image003.jpg@01C79CC4.7F784520"></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Italia Federici, the president of the Council of Republicans
for Environmental Advocacy is also a former political aide to former Secretary
of the Interior and CREA founder Gale Norton. She was sleeping with
Griles while she was working for Abramhoff who got various tribes to give
$500,000 to CREA. Abramhoff got a lot of tribal money and Griles got an
attractive girlfriend. The tribes thought they were buying Interior
Department rulings, but they probably got screwed also.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Sue Ellen Wooldridge</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><img width=72
height=82 src="cid:image004.jpg@01C79CC4.7F784520"></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Sue Ellen Wooldridge came to the Klamath basin several times
to get our input.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Griles now lives in </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Falls Church</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>, </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Va.</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> with Sue Ellen Wooldridge who until January was an
assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's environmental
division. They began dating in February 2003, when Wooldridge was Norton's
deputy chief of staff and counselor. Wooldridge became Interior's top lawyer
and counseled Griles on ethics matters. </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The AP reported in February that Wooldridge, who became the
nation's environmental prosecutor in November 2005, bought a $980,000 vacation
home last year with Griles and Donald R. Duncan, the top </span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Washington</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> lobbyist for ConocoPhillips. Nine
months later, she signed an agreement giving the company more time to clean up air
pollution at some of its refineries.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
suggestion that Wooldridge is linked to anything scandalous has come as a shock
to those who knew her as a hard-working and committed public servant. "Everybody
I've talked to is surprised," said Dan Keppen, executive director of the
Family Farm Alliance in </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial'>Klamath Falls</span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial'>, </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Ore.</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>, who knows Wooldridge from two
years of work as Norton's chief aide in the battle between fishermen and
farmers over allocation of </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Klamath River</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> water.</span></font></p>
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Jack Abramoff</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><img width=103
height=120 src="cid:image005.jpg@01C79CC4.7F784520"></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>To
my knowledge Abramoff was not involved in </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Klamath River</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> issues. The </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Klamath River</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> tribes are too poor to afford such a high priced
crook. Abramoff took at least 85 million dollars from multiple Indian tribes to
lobby for them. He is currently in jail and facing further indictments
for bribing multiple elected and appointed government officials.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So there you have it; sex lies and vast sums of money with
local connections to the </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial'>Klamath River</span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial'>. With enough money you can turn anyone into a whore or a
crook. My hero Teddy Roosevelt must be turning over in his grave.</span></font></p>
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