Developing : Gannon publisher runs for Texas GOP office ...

[MelissaB]

http://rawstory.com/

[kpete]

1. Story Up

Former Jeff Gannon publisher running for Vice Chair of Texas GOP
Ron Brynaert



The GOP operative and conservative website owner who hired a onetime prostitute to cover the White House has decided to run for the vice chairmanship of the Republican Party of Texas, RAW STORY has learned.

Jeff Gannon, a $200-an-hour gay male escort, resigned from Eberle’s Talon News last February after pictures and stories emerged which revealed that he once toiled as a gay male prostitute. Eberle shut down the news site shortly thereafter, although his satellite Website GOPUSA.com remains active.

The little known "news organization" first attracted attention after Media Matters reported that a softball question Gannon asked of President Bush at a press conference had been lifted from a skit aired on Rush Limbaugh's radio show.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Former_Jeff_Gannon_publisher_running_for_1222.html

[MelissaB]

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After "Propagannon" erupted, many Texas Republicans claimed that they never heard of Bobby Eberle even though he had a long history of activism for the party and many GOP operatives worked (or volunteered) alongside him at GOPUSA.com.

From a biography of Eberle that was scrubbed from the Web:

Bobby's activities within the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) include serving as a delegate to the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Bobby also served as a delegate to the Senate District 13 Convention in 1996, 1998, and 2000, and as a delegate to the Republican Party of Texas State Convention in 1996, 1998, and 2000... In 2000, Bobby served... as the Program Chairman for the 2000 Republican Party of Texas State Convention. Bobby also served on the Republican Party of Texas Education and Training Committee from 1998-2000. In 1999, Bobby was recognized with a unanimously approved resolution of commendation by the Republican Party of Texas for service and dedication to the Republican cause.

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One Texas Republican, Chris Elan blogged on Eberle’s chances to become Vice Chairman:

I guess if you were to place odds, Eberle would be the favorite based on how many man hours he has spent working for the GOP. I'm sure we'll start seeing his slick glossy mailers early in 2006. The race is a name ID position. So he better build it up, or risk some bigger name coming in and taking it away from him.
Elan interned for Congressman Tom DeLay while in high school and is also the Vice President for his father’s political resource firm, Campaign Resources, which lists DeLay as an erstwhile client.

Eberle has already launched a website touting his candidacy. Oddly enough, it was registered on Feb. 7, 2005, one day before Jeff Gannon resigned from Talon News. It’s unclear when the site went live.

The state party election will take place at the Texas Republican convention to be held at the San Antonio Convention Center June 2-3, 2006. So far, Eberle only has two declared opponents.

RAW STORY’s Jason Leopold recently noted that a Jan. 22 subpoena in the CIA leak investigation "asked for administration contacts with 25 journalists" including Gannon. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's interest most probably stems from a multi-part interview with former Ambassador Joe Wilson that Gannon conducted for Talon News sometime in October 2003. Gannon cited an "internal government memo" which said that Wilson's wife "suggested" he take a trip to Niger to investigate claims that Iraq purchased uranium for WMD purposes, but his wording of the

[janx]

3. "Bobby Eberle"

from Texas...

Now, why do I picture some kind of hick? Can this world get any crazier?

[MelissaB]

4. It's all the inbreeding in the Republican party.

What a web these guys have!

[janx]

5. A crazy hick

and a male prostitute... :rofl:

[Jane Austin]

6. "Man hours" HAHAHAHAHAHA!

"I guess if you were to place odds, Eberle would be the favorite based on how many man hours he has spent working for the GOP."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[janx]

7. Good catch...

Crazy hick and male prostitute and MAN HOURS... :rofl:

[Ronbrynaert]

11. yeah

Isn't that line great? Though i don't think the Texas based Republican blogger I quoted meant it. In fact a commenter clued him into Eberle running that same day on an earlier post and he didn't recognize the name at first...but I guess he made a few calls and found out.

[Al-CIAda]

8. .

[Loonman]

9. Jeff Gannon, a $200-an-hour gay male escort

Wow, he must be good!

[MelissaB]

10. Look where Michael Moore takes this in relation to the WT.

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Now the Washington Times is growing the lie by blaming Bill for doing something he was allowed to do (spy on foreigners) and somehow equating that to George's law-breaking (spying on Americans without a warrant).




What will they tell us next?


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