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Bush aid and supreme court nominee arrested for shoplifting

Postby hmm » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:57 am

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2137895">www.slate.com/id/2137895</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Former Bush Aide Charged in Felony Theft<br>Claude Allen had recently resigned as White House domestic-policy adviser.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>By Rachel Shteir<br>Updated Friday, March 10, 2006, at 5:44 PM ET<br><br>When Claude Allen, President Bush's longtime domestic-policy adviser, resigned suddenly on Feb. 9, it baffled administration critics and fans. The White House claimed that Allen was leaving to spend more time with his family, while the Washington Times speculated that the 45-year-old aide, a noted social conservative, might have quit to protest a new Pentagon policy about military chaplains. Allen himself never publicly explained the reason for his departure.<br><br>News today may shed light on the mystery of Allen's resignation.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_digbysblog_archive.html#114205665270557354">digbysblog.blogspot.com/2...5270557354</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Shoplifting Extremist<br><br>by digby<br><br>Bush's Domestic Policy advisor, Claude Allen, inexplicably resigned a while back, and today it was revealed that the reason was that he had been arrested for shoplifting. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Allen is not just some nobody. He was one of Bush's closest advisors and was paid at the very highest salary level along with Rove and Bartlet and a very few others.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> He is an extreme social conservative who the Democrats were able to keep off the federal bench when Bush nominated him for a lifetime appointment. (Let's give the Democrats some credit for doing something right on that one.) C. Boyden Gray, the shill in charge of putting far right radicals on the bench wrote this about Allen's nomination in NRO in 2004:<br><br> Claude Allen promises not to advance a political agenda from the federal bench he has been nominated to, but to be the type of judge who buttresses the foundation of American government -- by applying the rule of law however he finds it. President Bush, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, could do much worse than Allen. By the grace of democratic principles overriding a minority in the Senate, let us hope they do not have to.<br><br><br><br>I won't say it.<br><br>But here's the real kicker about Allen. From Josh Marshall, back in September 2005<br><br> (September 12, 2005 -- 02:10 AM EDT)<br><br> Not sure what to make of this small tidbit. But while I was confirming some new entries in our Katrina timeline tonight, I noticed something I hadn't heard before. According to Scott McClellan's August 31st gaggle, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>in the early days of Katrina, the White House Katrina task force was being run by Claude Allen.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br> Allen's title at the White House is Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. But he's basically the social policy czar, big into abstinence only education, stem-cell restrictions, stuff like that.<br><br> This may simply have been a matter of convening meetings -- I have no idea. But still it seemed an odd choice.<br><br><br><br>Very odd. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>In the worst natural disaster in American history the Bush administration's response was assigned to a shoplifting religious extremist and a crony from the arabian horseshow association</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> while the head of homeland security flew off to give a speech. The president and John McCain laughed and ate cake. This is Republican governance.<br><br>The administration has known about this for over a month. They lied reflexively and said he had resigned to spend more time with his family. Did they think this wouldn't come out?<br><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Update: Apparently they are still laboring under the illusion that the country will swallow anything:<br></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br> After the news of Allen's arrest surfaced Friday, White House officials provided an account of their knowledge of the events that led up to it.<br><br> The night of Jan. 2, after the alleged incident at the Target in Gaithersburg, he called White House chief of staff Andy Card to inform him of what had happened. The next morning, he spoke again, this time in person, with Card and White House counsel Harriet Miers, assuring them it was all a misunderstanding, press secretary Scott McClellan said.<br><br> Allen told his bosses there was merely confusion with his credit card because he had moved several times. "He assured them that he had done nothing wrong and the matter would be cleared up," McClellan said.<br><br> Allen told White House officials later that he wanted to resign because the job was too stressful on his family. His last day at the White House was Feb. 17, McClellan said.<br><br> The president first learned of Allen's planned departure and the January incident in early February, but since Allen had passed the usual background checks and had no other prior issues that White House officials were aware of, "He was given the benefit of the doubt," McClellan said.<br><br> "If it is true, no one would be more shocked and more outraged than the president," McClellan said. Allen has had no contact with the White House since his arrest.<br><br>First male prostitutes in the white house press room and now shoplifters in the president's inner circle. The vice president shoots an old man in the face. To say nothing of the indicted and soon to be indicted perjurers and corrupt GOP congressmen and Senators.<br><br>These are the people who are asking the nation to trust them with unfettered executive power because they are protecting the country. OK.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Shrub sure picks 'em

Postby Avalon » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:35 am

They are really on a roll, aren't they? <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>Do you think that strange Pat Robertson Time cover photo was actually him trying to keep shoplifted vibrating razors that he hid in an inside pocket from showing?<br><br>I'm spending time with my family today. Really. Anybody need anything from Target?<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Shrub sure picks 'em

Postby Col Quisp » Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:44 pm

Wonder what this one's dastardly crimes are...<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/11/MNGFDHML0V1.DTL">www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ar...HML0V1.DTL</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>I<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>nterior chief Gale Norton to step down<br><br>Zachary Coile, Chronicle Washington Bureau<br><br>Saturday, March 11, 2006<br> <br>Washington -- Interior Secretary Gale Norton, who led the Bush administration's efforts to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other public lands to drilling, announced Friday that she will resign to pursue a career in the private sector. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Back to Allen:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>Allen, a native of Philadelphia, spent much of his childhood in a working-class section of Northwest Washington, attending Archbishop Carroll High School. He later attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke Law School.<br><br>Allen is a self-described born-again Christian who got his start in politics working for Jesse Helms (R), the conservative former North Carolina senator.<br><br>Allen stirred controversy as Helms's campaign spokesman in 1984 by telling a reporter that then-Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. -- Helms's opponent -- was politically vulnerable because of his links to the "queers." He later explained that he used the word not to denigrate anyone but as a synonym for "odd and unusual."<br><br>Before that, Allen worked for the Virginia state attorney general's office and as state health and human resources secretary. In that job, he earned a reputation as a staunch conservative; once he kept Medicaid funds from an impoverished rape victim who wanted an abortion.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/10/AR2006031002328_pf.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...28_pf.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Sounds like he's a self-hating closet case who is lashing out at poor people to make up for what he had to do to rise to such a high level of power.<br><br>He also sounds like a capo (see, e.g., his handling of the Katrina response).<br> <p></p><i></i>
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Allen

Postby mother » Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:04 pm

I would really love to know what "working class" part of Northwest DC he supposedly came from. There might have been a few blocks of "working class' near Takoma Park, on the DC line. It's anybody's guess what this dispicable person did to claw his way up the DC food chain, and into a position of responsibility. The whole child molesting, theiving, genocidal bunch of psychopaths --this is why I think we live in the Fourth Reich. A pyramid of psychopaths. It's a gorgeous day; time to enjoy being with my family and avoid the rage this guy's typical story creates. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: his evil twin did it?

Postby hmm » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:54 pm

seems like Claude Allen has an evil twin!<br>and funny you mention the mafia as armstrong williams had something funny to say about clarence thomas too..<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/14/politics/14allen.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1142312400&en=597c9d305272ce2f&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=login">www.nytimes.com/2006/03/1...oref=login</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>For Bush's Ex-Aide, Quick Fall After Long Climb<br><br>By IAN URBINA and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK<br>Published: March 14, 2006<br><br>WASHINGTON, March 13 — Claude A. Allen often said his religious upbringing took him from a two-room apartment in a poor neighborhood of Washington to a post at the White House.<br><br>"Probably the vast majority of the kids who grew up in our neighborhood were either strung out on drugs or in jail or dead," Mr. Allen, one of the nation's most prominent African-American Republicans, said in a televised interview. But Mr. Allen said his salvation was the Roman Catholic education "that taught me discipline, taught me hard work, that taught me values that were carried throughout life."<br><br>Last week, that life and discipline appeared to have frayed when Mr. Allen, the president's former domestic policy adviser, was arrested in suburban Maryland and charged with stealing thousands of dollars in merchandise from Target and other stores in a scheme to fake returns.<br><br>People close to him said they were stunned at the charges. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Friends described him as the "goody-two-shoes" of his family who never drank at fraternity parties and went out for ice cream instead. His identical twin, Floyd, a former football player at the Virginia Military Institute, never matched his brother's achievements.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>"It's just the darnedest thing," Renee Allen, their stepmother, said from her retirement home in Atlanta. "I actually started to call Floyd to ask him what happened, but then I saw it wasn't him."<br><br>Through his lawyer, Mr. Allen denied the charges, saying there was a mix-up concerning his credit card. Maryland authorities charged Mr. Allen, 45, last Thursday with trying at least 25 times over the last five months to return and collect refunds for goods he never purchased, including a home theater system, clothes and items worth as little as $2.50.<br><br>The arrest was a puzzling turn in a career that had been on a straight climb. After coming to Washington as a staff member for Jesse Helms, the former Republican senator from North Carolina, he became a protégé of Justice Clarence Thomas and eventually an adviser to the president.<br><br>People who talked to Mr. Allen Monday said he remained surprisingly upbeat in the face of the charges. He said only one side of the story had been heard, said one former colleague who asked not to be identified because the conversation was private.<br><br>Like others who know him, his stepmother cannot understand the turn of events. "I simply have no idea where things could have gone wrong in his life," Mrs. Allen said.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Floyd was the twin who "kept running into bad times," while Claude Allen intervened repeatedly to help him, she said.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>In 2001, Floyd Allen declared bankruptcy in Virginia; a year earlier he was ordered to pay $6,450 in a civil suit brought against him by a travel company, according to state and federal records.<br><br>Claude Allen grew up in a two-bedroom apartment in Northwest Washington. He was the son of a mother who worked part time at a Catholic school and a father who worked for a plumbing supply business.<br><br>Although he attended Catholic school, he credited his grandfather, a former sharecropper, with inculcating in him a more evangelical faith, and he had become born again by the time he left college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<br><br>Donald Beeson, a member of the Chi Psi fraternity at Chapel Hill, said some fraternity members worried about admitting Mr. Allen, who did not drink. "You know, drinking and partying, typical things that end up happening at fraternities," Mr. Beeson said. But Mr. Allen functioned well in the mostly white and liberal fraternity, he added, because "he seemed to get along well with everyone — always thoughtful and respectful of different opinions."<br><br>He eventually attended Duke University Law School. Richard L. Schmalbeck, one of his former professors, said, "I'm scratching my head here wondering what happened." Mr. Schmalbeck said there was "not a hint" of Mr. Allen having any ethical problems when he was a student at Duke.<br><br>Sara Beale, another faculty member, said Mr. Allen had been "a kind of straight-arrow guy, not someone who seemed to have a taste for the high life."<br><br>He grew up a Democrat but took a job after college as press secretary for Bill Cobey, a Republican Congressional candidate in North Carolina.<br><br>Soon after, he switched parties. "I realized after the fact that I agree more with the Republican Party platform, that it talked about independence, that it talked about individual responsibility, individual rights, it talked about the ability to guarantee opportunities, not outcomes," he said in an interview with Armstrong Williams, another African-American conservative. "That was very much what my family stood for."<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Mr. Allen, a devoted father of four, was a protégé of Justice Thomas</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, who was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit when Mr. Allen clerked for another judge there. Like many young African-American conservatives, Mr. Allen often turned to Judge Thomas for guidance, two friends said, and the two often met for lunch or dinner.<br><br>"It is a small circle of conservatives, especially when you are black," said <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Mr. Williams, who was the subject of his own controversy last year after disclosures that he had accepted money from the Bush administration to write favorable newspaper columns.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"Thomas was a mentor to all of us," Mr. Williams said in an interview. "He is the godfather." But Judge Thomas especially admired Mr. Allen, he said.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> "He would tell me, 'Armstrong, this guy is so bright! His mind is like a steel trap.' "<br><br>In 2003, Mr. Allen was nominated to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The nomination was blocked in a dispute over the number of judges from each state in the circuit. But staff members of the Judiciary Committee said Monday that nothing about his ethics or personal life had come up. "We were as surprised as anyone," said a Democratic staff member.<br><br>At the White House, senior staff members continued to express astonishment about the theft charges against Mr. Allen, who was described as an engaging, devout and largely powerless adviser to Mr. Bush.<br><br>Although Mr. Allen had the vaunted title of assistant to the president for domestic policy and worked from a coveted West Wing office, he did not set policy so much as carry out the decisions of Mr. Bush's inner circle, particularly Karl Rove, the deputy chief of staff. Mr. Allen managed some of the domestic policy paper flow between the White House and government agencies.<br><br>Mr. Allen met with Mr. Bush in the Oval Office, along with other advisers, several times a week during the president's domestic policy time, usually in the afternoons. He was a guest of the first lady in her box during the president's State of the Union speech, nearly a month after Mr. Allen first informed Andrew H. Card Jr., the White House chief of staff, and Harriet E. Miers, the White House counsel, that he had been issued a misdemeanor citation for theft.<br><br>Mr. Allen told the White House at the time that there had been confusion with his credit cards and he would make sure the matter was cleared up.<br><br>Douglas F. Gansler, the Maryland state's attorney for Montgomery County, said Mr. Allen's trial was scheduled to begin April 27. Mr. Allen was released on his own recognizance.<br><br>Reporting for this article was contributed by Elisabeth Bumiller, Michael Janofsky, Robert Pear and John Files.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: his evil twin did it? No, probably NSA or CIA.

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:44 am

What's missing from this text version that one sees in today's New York Times article is that <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Claude Allen is a BLACK man working with Rove and Bush on Katrina </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->(and other domestic policies if there are any) who just mysteriously got badjacketed via COMPUTER.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>There is no 'shoplifting story' here.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> His reputation was just eliminated by push button technology and state-controlled press.<br><br>Why? Probably to <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>neutralize his potential power as a critical insider on Katrina who is as black as the many who were left to die. </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->Some day he'll probably lose some of his exhiliration from getting to work for real war criminals and start to talk.<br><br>This potential was extremely dangerous to an already wounded White House and so <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>he was probably pre-emptively smeared and dumped for the additional 'Willie Hortonization' effect </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->that I predict will be used to reduce empathy for the black poor of America to pre-Katrina levels. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 3/14/06 9:46 pm<br></i>
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He Admitted It

Postby Col Quisp » Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:06 pm

"Allen had receipts from previous purchases at Target stores and admitted to Agent Schomburg that he was committing fraudulent returns," said charging documents filed March 7 by Montgomery County police."<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20060314-111512-1846r.htm">washingtontimes.com/metro...-1846r.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Was he "in on" his own smearing? <p></p><i></i>
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Re: "He Admitted It." No, he sure didn't.

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:36 pm

Again, "the charging documents."<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Charging documents</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> cite several instances in which store surveillance tapes show Mr. Allen making the returns. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I think the regular readers of this board know that any charges can be leveled and any story can be printed to reinforce intended perceptions. Many who feel betrayed by the complicity and cowardice in the House and Senate don't take into account the weapons deployed machine gun-like against anyone who "goes over the top" against abusive power. Some die. Chilling works.<br><br>So I think Claude Allen is the Pat Tilman of Katrina now not just being discredited but <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>facing 15 years in jail.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Mr. Allen was a domestic policy adviser to Mr. Bush, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>with an annual salary of $161,000, before abruptly leaving the White House last month.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br> At the time, he said he wanted to spend more time with his family. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>All the incidents occurred while he was working at the White House.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Oh, so now within the same article <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>the story tone shifts from the vague "charges denied" to the affirmed "the incidents occurred."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>This is how people are convicted in the state-run press, dear viewers, and a good clue that power is protecting itself against something.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>I see that Allen left the White House "last month" (the teleconference 'leak' time as final straw?) and I suspect that this version of "why" is being put forth to distract and displace any other potential "whys." I suspect it comes back to Katrina.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Later Thursday, he was arrested and charged with the <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>more serious charges</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> of theft and theft scheme more than $500 in the other incidents. Each carries <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>a maximum prison sentence of 15 years.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>15 YEARS!!?? Holy crap. He could be disappeared!<br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 3/15/06 1:49 pm<br></i>
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Re: Bush aid and supreme court nominee arrested for shoplift

Postby Fat Lady Singing » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:50 pm

I wonder if a space might be opening up for another "prominent African-American" in the inner circle, Ohio's Ken Blackwell. Surely he will be rewarded for his good work during the 2004 election. He's running for Governor, but apparently he's ruffled Ohio GOP feathers, so even though he seems to have gained support (according to, ahem, polls), he may not be allowed to win. Perhaps a plum appointment in W's administration will be forthcoming...he did work for his dad's campaign, after all. And this bunch seems to be in favor of using minorities as a kind of "beard" for their reactionary tendencies. Who knows, maybe ol' Ken Blockwell (he blocked the recounts any way he could) will get lucky. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: "He Admitted It." No, he sure didn't.

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:55 pm

The whistleblower against Diebold, Stephen Heller, is being prosecuted as outlined in this thread-<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm10.showMessage?topicID=3237.topic">p216.ezboard.com/frigorou...3237.topic</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>This comment in the thread by Fat Lady Singing seems applicable to me-<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>When political people leave their positions<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> "to spend more time with their families,"</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> for one little example, I pretty much take it for granted that they were handed their hats.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>I always figure that when we "discover" something that implicates a person in power, it's because that person just pissed off the wrong other person in power.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> The pissed-off person in power allowed the "discovery" to happen. Or caused it to be discovered. Or planned the whole thing in the beginning.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Yikes. Synchronicity. I posted your comment at the same time

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:59 pm

as you yourself were posting.<br>Thanks for the psychic fax and insight, Fat Lady Singing.<br><br>I think you're right. Both cauterizing the Katrina wound and bringing in a new croney cover-up bandage makes sense.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Yikes. Synchronicity. I posted your comment at the same

Postby Fat Lady Singing » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:24 pm

Hi Hugh: funnier still because I haven't posted or even visited RI in quite some time.<br><br>I don't know whether Blackwell will actually get an appointment or not, but I do know this about W's folks: they do tend to reward for services rendered. They're quick enough to get rid of the thorns in their side, too, but usually if you do a favor for W and his cronies, they'll do one for you. Blackwell has served well, and long--for years before his starring role in the 04 election, in fact.<br><br>Blackwell was set to run for Gov last time around, but some sort of deal was struck so that Taft would get it this time and Blackwell would get it next time. That's the Reader's Digest Condensed version, anyway. If something has occurred to screw up *that* deal, perhaps Blackwell will get his reward elsewhere. <p></p><i></i>
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