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"Unrepentant" Television Ad Script and Validation

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Citation: “I’ve always worked for what we believe in.” [Ralph Reed for Lt. Governor ad]

Announcer 1: Ralph Reed used Christian Groups as a front for his paying casino clients.

Citation: “He [Reed] alienated his former Christian Coalition allies when it was revealed that in 2001 he had secretly taken gambling money to mobilize Christian activists to help shut down a tribal casino in Texas that competed with one run by Abramoff’s Indian clients.” [Time Magazine, 5/11/06]

Announcer 1: Reed was paid to lobby against protecting women on the Northern Mariana Islands from employers who forced them to have abortions and pushed them into prositution.

Citation: “In August 1999, political organizer Ralph Reed’s firm sent out a mailer to Alabama conservative Christians asking them to call then-Rep. Bob Riley (R-Ala.) and tell him to vote against legislation that would have made the U.S. commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands subject to federal wage and worker safety laws."

 

“…the Department of the Interior -- which oversees federal policy toward the U.S. territory -- presented a very different picture of life for Chinese workers on the islands. An Interior report found that Chinese women were subject to forced abortions and that women and children were subject to forced prostitution in the local sex-tourism industry.” [Washington Post, 5/29/06]

 

Citation: “[Casey] Cagle continued: charging that, by doing work for another Abramoff client, the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, Reed endorsed labor conditions on that island that include child prostitution and, in some cases, forced abortion among women.”
[Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 7/10/06]

Announcer 2: Is that really what we believe in?

Announcer 1: To this day, Ralph Reed remains unrepentant and refuses to admit he was wrong.

“In a debate with Cagle on Sunday, Reed said his involvement consisted of putting out a brochure supporting an Alabama congressman for voting against a bill to extend the application of U.S. labor laws and 'the union boss agenda' to the islands.” [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 7/11/06]

 

Announcer 2: That's the real Ralph Reed.

Attached: The U.S. Department of the Interior report on abuses on the Northern Mariana Islands (see below).