to be confused with census material. Jack Abramoff Louis Sheldon was an associate of Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist jailed for influence peddling. Despite the group's stated opposition to gambling, Sheldon lobbied members of the US Congress to kill the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act. Abramoff directed his client, eLottery, to pay $25,000 to the Traditional Values Coalition. The group has also been linked to the Mariana Islands worker abuse scandal, as it was used by Abramoff to pay for the trip of Representative Bob Schaffer to visit the island. The Denver Post reported that the TVC paid the $13,000 travel bill for the trip organized by Abramoff's lobbying firm. Abramoff's lobbying team would prepare questions and "factual backup" for friendly lawmakers. Trips to the island for congressmen and staff would be a key tool to "build permanent friends," the memo said. The congressional junkets to the Mariana Islands were designed to build support in Congress among Republican lawmakers to block labor and immigration legislation for the islands, which had been found to harbor squalid working conditions and abusive labor practices. See also Christian fundamentalism Christian right Radical right (United States) List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-gay hate groups References External links Official website Good As You's Traditional Values Coalition Archive Conservative organizations in the United States American Christian political organizations Political organizations based in the United States Evangelical parachurch organizations Anti-abortion organizations in the United States Organizations that oppose LGBT rights in the United States Christian conspiracy theorists