Flashpoint for Jan. 8, 2006

Sunday, Jan. 8, 2006 | 8:16 a.m.

The Abramoff scandal not only is causing squirming in Washington, DC. It is causing some writhing here among Nevada's delegation. Just watch all the fingers being pointed already. Last week, it was Rep. Jon Porter, who did not DeLay in asking Rep. Shelley Berkley and Sen. Harry Reid to return money. Berkley responded with the equivalent of a nuclear attack on Porter while Reid was more terse and tepid - although he usually does his knifing behind the scenes. Luckily for Porter and Rep. Jim Gibbons, Abramoff didn't pay much attention to them. But Sen. John Ensign already has shorn himself of Abramoff money, which might become an issue - if the junior senator has a real race.

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