ROVE On The Corner-Larisa Alexandrovna-Part III - Running elections from the White House

[kpete]

The Permanent Republican Majority: Part III - Running elections from the White House
Larisa Alexandrovna, Muriel Kane and Lindsay Beyerstein
Published: Sunday December 16, 2007


Part I of this series explored the long-term involvement of two men -- GOP consultant Bill Canary and Alabama Attorney General William Pryor -- in the events leading to the imprisonment last summer of former Alabama Democratic governor Don Siegelman.

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Bill Canary, Karl Rove, and the 2002 ElectionsKarl Rove is known to have worked with Bill Canary on numerous political races in Alabama, beginning in 1994 and including William Pryor's campaign in 1998. Canary and Pryor both enjoyed a close political and social relationship with Rove — who went on to become a senior adviser to the president, before Bush's "brain" resigned earlier this year.

Two Republican lawyers who have asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation allege that Canary and Rove also worked together on the 2002 Alabama governor's race. One of the lawyers is close to the Republican National Committee in Alabama.

According to the lawyers, Rove and Canary initially supported Republican Lieutenant Governor Steve Windom in his bid for the nomination to challenge Governor Siegelman but then switched their allegiance to Rep. Bob Riley after his victory in the primary. The Windom campaign was well known to be sluggish, however, prompting many observers to wonder just how serious an undertaking it really was.

By 2002, George W. Bush was president and Karl Rove was working in the White House as his special assistant with the highest level of security clearances. Rove, however, did not lose his security clearances, even after he was identified as one of the sources in the CIA leak case, in which the cover of covert CIA officer, Valerie Plame Wilson was exposed to journalists in 2003 as an apparent act of reprisal against her husband Joseph Wilson.

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Rove on the Corner

Rove's meetings with Riley campaign operatives are said to have taken place on street corners in Washington at prearranged times. "Riley's people went up to DC and had a couple of meetings with ," one of the Republican attorneys stated. In addition, Rove and his wife purchased a property in Rosemary Beach, Florida in November of 2002, about 2-1/2 hour drive from Alabama’s capital – Montgomery, a little over an hour's drive from Mobile, and less than an hour by jet.

"He would never discuss anything on the phone. He would tell you to meet him at some corner and then you get there and sure enough he is standing in the middle of the intersection waving at you."

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When Karl Rove started working with William Canary in Alabama in 1994, it was as a direct extension of the strategy for electing pro-corporate Republican judges that he had begun in Texas. Rove's first major victory in Alabama was the election of Judge Perry Hooper in a race that was decided only after a year-long legal battle resulted in the disqualification of 2000 absentee ballot, making Hooper the victor by a mere 262 votes.

When viewed in the context of a long-term plan to make the Republican Party dominant in Alabama, events in that state in 2002 take on the appearance of being as much a part of what Salon calls "Rove's master plan" as any in Texas. Beyond that, the electoral strategy that was carried out in Alabama in 2002 might be seen as a trial run for Rove's successful national election strategy of 2004.




more at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/The_Permanent_Republican_Majority_Part_III_1216.html

[midnight]

1. I know this is a serious matter, but I can't help smiling thinking

about Rove in the middle of the road waving.

[xchrom]

2. i'm recommending -- however i don't know if these guys are touchable.

this article isn't telling regular DU readers anything they didn't know -- so if we have known it -- then i have to suspect that leaders in the democratic party have certainly known it.

the question is simply -- why no real investigation where it counts?

[Richard Steele]

3. K&R

[bonito]

4. K&R n/t

[KaryninMiami]

5. L&R = Great work as always, Larisa!

The unraveling continues.