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The Shadow Of Abramoff

May 15, 2008

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2:10 pm

Daniel Larison

I once said that Schaffer in Colorado had a decent chance of competing with Mark Udall for the open Senate seat.  I don’t think that anymore.  Here‘s why:

In Colorado, Bob Schaffer, the Republican Senate nominee, made a horrendous blunder last month when he touted the guest-worker program in the Northern Marianas Islands (notorious for forcing abortions and trafficking in sex slaves), which he had once visited on Abramoff’s dime.

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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