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Rove Instructs Tucson Republicans
by theoretically pink
Friday, Apr. 29, 2005 at 11:49 PM
Karl Rove met with Pima County and Tucson Corporate & Republican backers at a $500 a plate luncheon at the Tucson Country Club today (29 April 2005.) This master propagandist for the Bush administration instructed loyal and well heeled minions in his personal take on dirty politics.
Where were the print journalists?
No print "media" bothered to cover the protests of the visit of Karl Rove to Tucson today. Nor did they choose to cover the press conference with three candidates for local offices in this year’s elections that occurred just beyond the protest gatherings outside the gates of the gated Tucson Country Club Estates community.
Sources tell us that Senator Kyl and Propagandist Rove arrived at the venue shortly after leaving Jim Click’s home. Representative Kolbe was also seen arriving. Other unverified attendees included Kathleen Dunbar and Fred Ronstadt.
Rove is well known as the brains of the Bush administration’s political propaganda machine. He is the composer and conductor of the well-orchestrated symphony of lies that has played through several administrations all the way back to the Nixon overture.
Back in 1972, the 22-year-old Rove was a candidate for chairman of the College Republicans. He was a practitioner of the take-no-prisoners politics common to Republican operatives of his generation. Many say he is ruthless and power-hungry, and that he will do whatever it takes to win. Tom Pauken has been quoted as saying, "He's very much what I would call a control freak."
Rove was born in Colorado, grew up in an apolitical household and caught the political bug after the family moved to Utah. In 1971 he quit the University of Utah and moved to Washington to become executive director of the College Republicans. In 1973, College Republicans and Rove were accused of promoting dirty tricks during the Watergate campaign year of 1972. The RNC, which was then chaired by Bush's father, investigated and exonerated Rove. But Rove has acknowledged that he used a false identity in 1970 to gain entry to the campaign offices of Illinois Democrat Alan Dixon. When inside, Rove stole some letterhead stationery and sent out 1,000 bogus invitations to the opening of the candidate's headquarters promising "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing."
Rove has had a Bush connection since he first met George W. while working as an assistant to Bush's father at the RNC in 1973-74. In 1977, he moved to Texas to work for the elder Bush's pac, and in 1978 helped George W. Bush in his unsuccessful race for Congress. Rove left the elder Bush's presidential campaign and moved to Austin in early 1979. There he went to work for Bill Clements, the first Republican governor of Texas elected in the 20th Century. The move to Austin catapulted Rove into a 20-year crusade to remake the political face of the state. The crusade went nationwide with Bush campaign in 2000. The crusade has now been personally brought to Tucson by Rove.
Why Tucson? We are a liberal enclave in a “red” state and a community that has national recognition for independent thought. There is significant money here. No one can say with certainty why the chief strategist for Bush sees a personal appearance in Tucson as worthwhile but it certainly seems to point to national interest in and assistance with local Republican campaigns. Can major lies and dirty tricks be far behind?
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John Dean
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/06/1354218
Somebody who has dealt extensively with Rove in the White House and who was also connected with the Nixon White House really gave me the best shorthand description of Rove. They said he's both Haldeman and Ehrlichman. To the world that doesn't know Watergate, that didn't mean anything. Anybody that knows Watergate knows they were two of the heaviest players in the White House. Haldeman, the Chief of Staff, the procedure man, where would the president be, protecting his image, the political planning and fairly ruthless, would get one of the heaviest sentences of anybody involved in Watergate. Ehrlichman was a policy man, but every policy he worked up for the President was viewed through the perspective of how will this help get Richard Nixon re-elected, because the entire first term was spent doing that. This is what Rove has done for this president.
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Rove is also reportedly the guy who "leaked" the information on Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, the CIA agent. Ambassador Wilson, himself, named Rove as the source of the leak during a Washington symposium. This action was apparently initiated in a fit of revenge for Wilson's report on Iraq, which refused to support the administration's claims of weapons of mass destruction and attempts at building nuclear weapons.