dennis cardoza is a democrat from california. he likes to go to the race course. he spent $47,000 at the race course in baltimore. this is a congressman from california. he is raising money, but he is doing it at a race course in baltimore. he is not raising money in california. he is raising it at the race course in baltimore. >> did you see where they put a bill in the hopper, knowing that a committee will do this, knowing that this would be a way to raise money? >> if we had, we would have written about it and put it on the front page. it is hard to prove that those kinds of things were going on. it is hard to prove. it is hard to prove that a specific donation was given to achieve a specific outcome. the thing about the abramoff case that was different from the garden variety flow of money in washington was that there was a fabulous e-mail trail involving conversations, through e-mail, between abramoff and his colleagues about where they spelled out what they were buying and how and when. they said they would give this money for this result and then they got t