| | An unwelcome visit for one GOP lawmaker
 Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL) received an anniversary present Wednesday for a date he'd probably rather forget.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent a Jack Abramoff impersonator to the congressman's office to celebrate the day when news broke of his involvement with the now-convicted lobbyist, reports Roll Call's Heard on the Hill. The guy, who identified himself only as Jack, was wearing the lobbyist's "trademark trench coat and fedora," the paper reports.
The Abramoff poser, trailed by a DCCC staffer and HOH, of course, entered Feeney’s office in the Cannon House Office Building and attempted to leave the gift, a package of golf balls (all the better to commemorate Feeney’s now-infamous golfing trip to Scotland with Abramoff) with a note. But Feeney’s front-desk staffer, who looked a bit mystified about the strange attempted delivery, told the impersonator that he couldn’t leave the golf balls, apparently fearing they might violate the House gift ban.
The note wishing her boss a happy anniversary was fine, she said.
The be-hatted Abramoff copycat then withdrew without a scene.
When HOH questioned him, he would identify himself only as Jack, and answered our questions in character — although since the coat and hat he wore were more khaki than Abramoff’s black, we couldn’t help but think he looked more like a young Indiana Jones than the imprisoned Abramoff.
“I’m still trying to keep my friends here on Capitol Hill,” Jack told HOH.
Feeney's travels with Abramoff also got him named to the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's list of the 22 most corrupt members of Congress.
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