Washington – Jack Abramoff wants his name back. But House Democrats own it and they are going to keep it.
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee owns the rights to the Web domain name “jackabramoff.com,” having secured it in 2006.
But Abramoff, the former GOP lobbyist at the center of one of of Washington’s biggest scandals in recent decades, called the DCCC in a bid to see if he can’t get them to give it up.
Abramoff called the DCCC last week to ask – very politely – if they would be so nice as to give up the name.
But the DCCC has no intention of doing so.
“Jack Abramoff can try to rehab his image, but glowing press stories and being back on the D.C. cocktail circuit don’t change the fact that Abramoff is a convicted felon who went to jail for being the heart of Republicans’ ‘Culture of Corruption,’” said Jennifer Crider, the DCCC’s spokeswoman. “We didn’t forget, Jack and anyone who visits jackabramoff.com won’t either.”
Abramoff, for his part, isn’t pleased to hear about the DCCC’s stance, and he threatened legal action to get control of the name.
“I was told by my lawyers that I have a legal right to it and so I wanted to sort of do it amicably, but I guess we’ll just have to have the lawyers sort it out,” Abramoff said in an interview. “No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.”
This guy has been going around the TV shows and cocktail parties in New York trying to estabish himself as a “reformer”. What a hypocrite. The Dems should retain the website and use it to wrap his stealing and lying for a decade around all the Republicans he conspired with and bribed. He was and continues to be a busha to the frum community (he claims to belong to).
If he really had as much remorse as he claims to have, he would go crawl under a rock, not publish a book then appear on sixty minutes etc.
What a joke, the guy is clearly exactly who he always was (ill let you all fill in the blanks here).
The Dems should give it back to him immediately. This is not their jurisdiction to regulate who is on the internet. OF course he can just get another site, but this fellow wants to reform himself and should be given every opportunity.
The dems are not judge and jury and deserve to let citizens play fair and develop themselves. This is asinine.
I just love seeing what our beloved dems are sooo occupied with nowadays with nothing more than revenge on their agenda! Yes public funds, are keeping these bums occupied with defaming jack. Not that I agree with what jack did ( or actually I think he’s a very nice man who misstepped somehow, and got caught. After all that’s the culture in wash in gton!) Court did what it was supposed to do, which is to convict him if found guilty, however I don’t think its right at all for them to use their position to take revenge. how low they are!
A domain name is like any piece of intellectual property that can be owned, sold or transferred. It belongs to the party that registered it.