As posted in our blog back on April 25, Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC) was making it his own personal mission to prevent funding to buy land for a September 11 memorial in Pennsylvania to honor those killed on Flight 93. His excuse? He was worried that enough private funding wouldn’t be raised and the government would have to foot the bill for the memorial. This is the same Rep. Taylor who helped secure a $3 million appropriation for a Jack Ambramoff client.

Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC) is holding up an appropriation for a national monument to commemorate the heroes on United Flight 93, but he helped Jack Abramoff's clients secure a $3 million appropriation after receiving $6,000 in campaign contributions.

We know how it works. We know that lobbyists use campaign contributions every day on Capitol Hill to secure legislative favors. But until we had Jack Abramoff and all his emails, did we ever have such an inside view?