Graul, lobbyist friend won't discuss freebies

We've done our best to keep you posted on the Mark Graul-Jack Abramoff connection, but Graul, Mark Green's campaign manager and former DC chief of staff, never responds to anything I post. He prefers to let me read his latest spin through WisPolitics.

I guess I shouldn't be offended, because Graul won't talk to Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo either. That's where the list of freebies from Abramoff to Congressional members and staffers, including Graul, first appeared.

Talking Points Memo is a national blog with more than a million pageviews a week, or about 125 times the readership of The Xoff Files. But neither Graul nor Jennifer Calvert, the Abramoff staffer who's listed as getting free Graul tickets a number of times, will talk to Marshall, he reports in his latest post on the subject, which includes links to some of the documents naming Graul.

What's wrong with being an Abramoff buddy? This website has the tip of the iceberg, at least. Here's more.