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Bush Strategist Denies Allegations

LOUISIANA – As reported by the World Net Daily: "Ralph Reed, former executive director of the Christian Coalition and current Bush campaign strategist for the Southeast, has responded to allegations that he had been secretly taking funds from one Indian tribe with a casino monopoly as payment to launch a moral crusade against a competitive tribe that wanted to start up its own casino.

"In the July 12 edition of The Nation, a leftist publication, veteran journalist Jack Newfield wrote that if the rival Jena Band tribe obtained rights to run a casino, it posed a potential $1 billion loss in gambling revenue to the Coushatta tribe of Louisiana.

"The Coushattas are one of four tribes being investigated by Congress for some $45 million paid to Washington lobbyist/lawyer Jack Abramoff and public-relations executive Mike Scanlon, the former spokesman for House GOP Majority Leader Tom Delay.

"…According to Newfield, Reed was hired by the Coushatta to fend off the newcomers and offset the influence of former GOP national Chairman Haley Barbour, who had been hired by the Jena Band to help ensure their casino compact was approved by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

"…But Newfield's allegations are not true, says Reed…"

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