Bob Schaffer, the Republican senate candidate in Colorado, gave an interview to PolitickerCO.com and roughly the first half of the interview seems to have been Schaffer refusing to answer any questions about his advocacy of the Marianas guest worker program or his junket to the Marianas on Jack Abramoff's dime. Schaffer now seems to be claiming that the trip was not in fact funded and organized by Jack Abramoff's lobbying operation.

The reporter, Jeremy Pelzer, didn't seem to be as prepared as he needed to be if Schaffer was going to deny all the facts of the case. But this one is pretty straight forward -- Abramoff used the 'Traditional Values Coalition' as a front to launder money for setting up various trips and events as part of his lobbying connection.

The rather abundant evidence that Schaffer helped execute Abramoff's strategy in hearings on the Marianas also makes the Abramoff-Schaffer connection pretty clear.