Karl Rove's dirty tricks go back to 1970
Source: Chicago Tribune
By John Kass
... And here's my point, Karl, whether you like it or not. You're a weasel.
... Rove may have played his first political dirty trick here (in Chicago). He was 19 or 20, a Republican trying to undercut Democrat Alan Dixon, a future U.S. senator who was campaigning for Illinois state treasurer in 1970.
Gene Callahan, the longtime Democrat who was close to Dixon, recalled Tuesday that Rove filched some Dixon campaign stationery, and passed them out to the homeless on Skid Row inviting them to a party. "Rove put out this invitation on Dixon stationery saying everyone was invited, free booze, free girls and free everything. We had all kinds of street people coming in drinking everything, eating all the hors d'oeuvres.
"Tom Loftus, the press secretary, calls me, 'You won't believe this! They're eating and drinking everything and the press is here!' But Alan Dixon handled it well. "He was a Democrat, and he said it takes all kinds to win, and everyone was invited," Callahan said. "And he won."
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