Ed Gillespie, Tenet Healthcare lobbyist, Ex-RNC chief named President's Counselor

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A lobbyist peripheral to the firing of US Attorney Carol Lam has been named as the new Counselor to the President. Gillepsie's firm was paid $360,000 by Tenet Healthcare in 2006. Carol Lam was litigating against Tenet's Alvarado Hospital and its staff when fired. Gillespie served as Bush's hand-pick RNC chairman.

Recently, the White House hired a new group of lawyers, including several from the So. NY USA office. Recent changes in White House personnel also include resignations by persons involved in the USA firings.

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Former Chairman of G.O.P. Will Join Bush’s Inner Circle
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: June 14, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/washington/14gillespie.html

WASHINGTON, June 13 — Ed Gillespie, a prominent Washington lobbyist, former chairman of the Republican National Committee and longtime adviser to President Bush, will join the White House inner circle as the next counselor to the president, Mr. Bush said Wednesday.

Mr. Bush made the announcement in the Oval Office, with Mr. Gillespie and the aide he will replace, Dan Bartlett, by his side. In selecting Mr. Gillespie, Mr. Bush reached for a consummate insider, someone comfortable both in the ways of Washington and the White House itself.

It was a revealing change of course for a president who came to Washington more than six years ago with a cadre of Texas outsiders who did not hide their disdain for the city’s permanent bureaucracy. But as he approaches the end of his second term, Mr. Bush has been increasingly turning to members of the Washington establishment, including Tony Snow as press secretary, Fred F. Fielding as White House counsel, and now Mr. Gillespie. ....

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Ex-RNC chief named president's counselor
by Jennifer Loven, Associated Press | June 14, 2007
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/06/14/ex_rnc_chief_named_presidents_counselor/

WASHINGTON -- Ed Gillespie, a high-dollar Washington lobbyist and longtime go-to guy for President Bush and the Republican Party, is replacing Dan Bartlett as White House counselor in the president's inner circle.

"He is a seasoned hand who has got excellent judgment. He's a good strategic thinker that I know will do a fine job," Bush said after having lunch with Gillespie and Bartlett.

Gillespie, a former head of the national GOP, will take on Bartlett's same duties and title. He starts June 27, to have some overlap with Bartlett, who is leaving around July 4.

Bartlett, 36, has been one of Bush's most trusted advisers, a near-constant presence at president's side and, at 14 years, his longest-serving aide. Bartlett has been with Bush from his first campaign as governor of Texas ..............

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Bush picks Washington insider as White House counselor
Ex-Republican chairman Gillespie is chosen to be White House counselor.
By James Gerstenzang and Maura Reynolds, Times Staff Writers
June 14, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-bush14jun14,1,5197199.story?coll=la-news-politics-national

WASHINGTON — President Bush on Wednesday named a Washington insider ... a political veteran who has strong relationships with congressional Republicans. Bush met Gillespie, a New Jersey native, in 1999. ....

Gillespie, 45, is known as a fierce political fighter who is never "off message" in public. During Bush's 2004 reelection campaign, the then-RNC chairman served as Bush's surrogate in delivering sharply partisan messages so the president could stick to more high-minded political rhetoric.

... The counselor job is that of a close advisor, political expert and, perhaps more than anything else, crafter and conveyor of the presidential message.

In the early Bush years, Gillespie met almost weekly with the president as RNC chairman, becoming part of his inner circle, said Kenneth M. Duberstein, Reagan's final White House chief of staff.

"This is not a change in the tectonic plates," Duberstein said.

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1. Ed Gillespie: The Embedded Lobbyist = ENRON, FL Recount

Ed Gillespie: The Embedded Lobbyist
President Bush’s decision to name lobbyist Ed Gillespie as chairman of the Republican ....
Ed Gillespie’s record of advocacy for the interests of Corporate ...
http://www.citizen.org/documents/Gillespie_June.pdf

Public Citizen published a 25-page report calling Gillespie "an embedded lobbyist" and asserting that his appointment as RNC chairman "has opened a conduit for corporate America to strengthen its already formidable influence in the White House and Congress."

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Edward W. Gillespie - http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ed_Gillespie
Edward W. Gillespie, a Republican lobbyist for clients including Enron, was selected by President George Walker Bush as National Chairman of the Republican National Committee on June 16, 2003. ...
married to the former Cathy Hay, executive director of U.S. Rep. Joe Barton's political action committee, the Texas Freedom Fund. ...
worked for a decade as a top aide to House Majority Leader Dick Armey and was a principal drafter of the Republican Party's "Contract With America" in 1994. In 1996, he became Director of Communications and Congressional Affairs for the Republican National Committee under then Chairman Haley Barbour. ...
In 2000, Gillespie served as senior communications advisor for the presidential campaign of George W. Bush ...

Quotes: While working as a Republican observer in Miami-Dade for the 2000 Presidential Election ballot recount, Ed Gillespie, commenting on how the "repeated machine counts degrade the ballots ..., described the scene when county officials ran the ballots through the counting machine for a third time: 'Chad was flying around the room like confetti in New York on New Year's Eve,' he said."

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18. DeLay, Reed, Gillespie Were Hacks for Enron. Gillespie was the company’s “hired gun"

DeLay and Gillespie Were Hacks for Enron.
http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/05/republican_char.php

"Tom DeLay...received $28,900 in personal campaign donations from Enron Corp since 1989;
in addition, Enron used as lobbyists two influential members of DeLay's informal kitchen cabinet...
received $10,000 corporate contribution from Enron in 2000 for its unregulated 'soft money';
the group also received $47,250 in regulated contributions in 1995 through 2000 from Enron."
In return, DeLay pushed a "stimulus" bill which would have given Enron a $254 million tax break --
which RNC chairman Ed Gillespie, a registered Enron lobbyist and key Bush ally, lobbied on behalf of.
Enron executives described Gillespie as their key contact to Bush.


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http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/05/the_ties_that_b.php

Former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie Registered Enron Lobbyist, Fought For $254 Million Break. ... Gillespie said he would lobby on energy deregulation and California's deregulation situation, and received $525,000 from Enron. Enron executives described Gillespie as their key contact to the White House. A former Enron employee described Gillespie as the company’s “hired gun,” and said, “Whenever we had to get in to see a Republican, the first call was to Gillespie.” ...

* ...Gillespie e-mailed Andrew Lundquist, the energy task force executive director from Feb. 1, 2001, to Sept. 30, 2001 and asked if the administration’s talking points could include a number of proposals favored by Enron. Gillespie also tells Lundquist that they are “going into the field with a new nationwide poll next week” and to “please let me know if there’s anything you would like tested.”

White House Political Advisor Karl Rove held Enron stock worth between $100,000 to $250,000 while the Bush administration was writing its energy plan.

Ralph Reed Lobbied For Enron. After receiving a recommendation from Karl Rove, Enron hired former Christian Coalition executive director ... Ralph Reed ... In an October 23, 2000 memo to Enron, Reed wrote, “We are a loyal member of your team and are prepared to do whatever fits your strategic plan. … In public policy, it matters less who has the best arguments and more who gets heard -- and by whom.”

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19. Enron Secretly Funded Ed Gillespie's Lobbying Campaign for Bush's Energy Plan

Ed Gillespie
Enron Secretly Funded Ed Gillespie's Lobbying Campaign for Bush's Energy Plan
19-Feb-02
http://archive.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Ed%20Gillespie

During the Clinton years, Republicans went ballistic over a scheme by the Teamsters to funnel money secretly through a liberal fundraising company - and some of the middlemen actually went to jail. Now Newsweek has revealed that Enron secretly funneled $50,000 through corporate whore Grover Norquist's "Americans for Tax Reform," in order to promote Bush's pro-Enron energy plan. The mastermind of this scheme was former Bush consultant Ed Gillespie, who told a baldfaced lie to the media when he claimed his "21st Century Energy Project" was funded by non-profit groups. In fact, every last dime came from corporations who oppose pro-environmental policies to stop global warming. Where is the outrage? We demand a Special Prosecutor for Enrongate!

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20. "All of this influence helps explain why the convictions few and fines inadequate..."

Fines, settlements and disgorgement of ill-gotten gains imposed upon energy companies for causing the California energy crisis
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/electricity/Enron/articles.cfm?ID=11454


... Among the power companies found guilty of energy market manipulation, Enron exercised tremendous influence over the Bush Administration’s hands-off policy towards the California energy crisis. Enron paid the DC lobbying firm Quinn Gillespie more than half a million dollars in the first seven months of 2001 to lobby the "Executive Office of the President" on the "California electric crisis", ... Gillespie ... was a top Bush campaign advisor and ran the U.S. Department of Commerce for the first 30 days of the Bush presidency ...

Just as Enron was paying Gillespie $75,000 a month lobbying Congress and the White House against price controls, the Bush Administration aggressively took Enron's position. On numerous occasions, President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, their various spokespeople and cabinet officials took an aggressive stance against price controls. ...

...Gillespie formed the 21st Century Energy Project ... in conjunction with the Bush White House ... funded almost entirely by his corporate lobbying clients. Newsweek claims that Enron laundered $50,000 to Gillespie through Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform ...

All of this influence helps explain why the convictions few and fines inadequate: the industry's $146 million in campaign contributions since the 2000 election - with 75% of that money going to Republicans - has bought the CEOs and companies a certain amount of immunity from prosecution and scrutiny.

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2. Lobbyist to Campaign For Bush Court Nominee

Gillespie Choice Marks Bid to Use GOP Muscle
By Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 8, 2005; Page A04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/07/AR2005070701973.html

Ed Gillespie, who will help promote President Bush's future nominee to a vacancy on the Supreme Court, is a top-tier lobbyist who represents a host of clients with direct and indirect interests in the outcome of Supreme Court decisions.

Bush is expected to formally announce soon his designation of Gillespie, 43, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, to work with former senator Fred D. Thompson (R-Tenn.) to shepherd Bush's choice to succeed retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor through the Senate. Thompson, a television actor, will deal privately with senators and provide advice to the nominee on preparing for Judiciary Committee hearings, while Gillespie will help develop Bush's nomination message.

During a brief telephone interview yesterday, Gillespie declined to discuss his selection or the conflict-of-interest rules that will govern his activities.

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4. Gillespie, serving as an adviser to Alito during the confirmation process

Ed Gillespie's Interesting Interview
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2006/01/ed_gillespies_interesting_inte.html

Although The Fix has spent most of today focused on the increasingly intriguing GOP leadership races in the House, we won't ignore the other major political story of the day -- the Senate confirmation hearings of Samuel A. Alito Jr.

You wouldn't be alone if, amid the flurry of political news this morning, you missed the sitdown former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie did with C-SPAN (The Fix's favorite network). Gillespie, who is serving as an adviser to Alito during the confirmation process, spent most of his time discussing Alito's credentials, but he also touched on his relationship (or lack thereof) with lobbyists Jack Abramoff and offered his views on Rep. Tom DeLay's (R-Texas) decision to permanently step down as majority leader this weekend.

Read or watch the entire interview, but if you're pressed for time, here's a quick summary of the high points: ....

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3. Gillepsie helps Gonzales Prepares to Fight for His Job in Testimony

seafan Apr-05-07 12:00 PM - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=583799&mesg_id=583799
AG Gonzales to undergo 3 days of mock testimony sessions w/ Timothy Flannigan & Ed Gillespie

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Gonzales Prepares to Fight for His Job in Testimony
By Dan Eggen and Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, April 5, 2007; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040402614_pf.html

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has retreated from public view this week in an intensive effort to save his job ....

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16. Ed Gillespie, then RNC chairman, says RNC " does not engage in voter suppression"

Who was in charge of Tim Griffin's voter caging effort in Florida?
The RNC buck stopped at Ed Gillespie, RNC chairman during the 2004 campaign. He says it wasn't the RNC. Who then?

The Florida and SE USA Cheney-Bush 2004 stopped at Abramoff's co-conspirator Ralph Reed.
The Bush-Cheney National campaign buck stopped at:
Marc Racicot, Chairman or Ken Mehlman, Campaign Manager
Matthew Dowd = Senior Strategist, Monica Goodling's attorney
Sara Taylor = Deputy to the Chief Strategist, resigned White House associate political director

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New U.S. attorneys appear partisan
Top Republicans target Demo 'election fraud'
By Greg Gordon, Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor
McClatchy Newspapers
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660205905,00.html

Griffin, the interim U.S. attorney in Arkansas who's replaced Cummins, was a Rove protege and a former Republican National Committee research director. He was accused of being part of an attempt to wipe likely Democratic voters off the rolls in Florida in 2004 if they were homeless or military personnel.

Griffin couldn't be reached for comment.

Ed Gillespie, then the RNC chairman, said the Republican Party was following election laws and trying to investigate voter fraud by sending out mailers to addresses of registered voters. If the notices came back, he said, the names were entered into a database and checked to see if the voters were listing actual residences.

"The Republican National Committee does not engage in voter suppression," he said. "The fact that someone was trying to prevent voter fraud should not disqualify someone from being U.S. attorney."

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5. Someone needs to look at his harddrive.

THAT's what I am saying...

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8. I'd like to know the precise timeline of the Tenet account activity in relation to

Carol Lam's prosecution of the medicare fraud. Also, is he a friend of the SEC chairman or others involved in the Tenet settlement of Lam's firing??

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6. "I know Jack Abramoff," Gillespie, RNC Chairman replied ...

Abramoff and His Vanishing Friend
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Friday, January 6, 2006; Page A19
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/05/AR2006010501903.html

It almost makes you feel sorry for Jack Abramoff.

Republicans once fell all over themselves to get his "moolah," the term used famously by the disgraced superlobbyist, and to get his advice on dealing with that warm and cuddly entity known as "the lobbying community." ...

There's a scramble to treat him as a wildly defective gene in an otherwise healthy body politic, and to erase the past. But seeing the record of the past clearly is essential to fixing the future.

Abramoff, who used to pall around with close Bush allies Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed in the College Republicans and who has been a central figure in the rise of Republican dominance in Washington, is not a lone wolf. ...

On an Oct. 15, 2003, CNBC broadcast, journalist Alan Murray asked Ed Gillespie, then chairman of the Republican National Committee, about fundraising by "people like Jack Abramoff, who represents Indian tribes here," and another lobbyist whose name I'll leave out because he has not been implicated in any scandals. "Are you going to sit here and tell us that their contributions to your party have nothing to do with their lobbying efforts in Washington?"

"I know Jack Abramoff," Gillespie replied. He mentioned the other lobbyist and insisted: "They are Republicans; they were Republicans before they were lobbyists....

"What the Republicans need is 50 Jack Abramoffs," his friend Grover Norquist told National Journal in 1995. "Then this becomes a different town." Norquist got his different town. It's why the place so badly needs cleaning up.

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7. VIDEO Ed Gillespie Selling Usual Talking Points... Andrea Mitchell Is Not Buying

Ed Gillespie Selling Usual Talking Points... Andrea Mitchell Is Not Buying
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4061

Andrea Mitchell calls former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie on his B.S. GOP talking points today on MSNBC. Refreshing to say the least.

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9. Ratface

Every time I see that guy I want to toss him a piece of cheese.

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21. One comment

Put that cheese in a trap.

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10. Gillespie Lies: "We're going to--he's going to be re-elected carrying Ohio."

As Republican National Committee chair, was Ed Gillespie involved in the illegal vote caging in Florida? While same was happening he said, on Meet the Prress, "... tactics of voter intimidation by Republicans, ... none exist. ....."

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"NBC NEWS' MEET THE PRESS." - Transcript for October 24
Guests: Ed Gillespie, Chairman, Republican National Committee; Terry McAuliffe, Chairman, Democratic National Committee; David Broder, The Washington Post; John Harwood, The Wall Street Journal; Gwen Ifill, "Washington Week"; Byron York, National Review
Oct 25, 2004 - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6321456/

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MR. RUSSERT: A Republican has never been elected president without carrying Ohio. Can George Bush be elected without carrying Ohio?

MR. GILLESPIE: We're going to--he's going to be re-elected carrying Ohio. It's a lot easier to get there with Ohio and we're going to do it with Ohio.

MR. RUSSERT: But he could win even without Ohio?

MR. GILLESPIE: Well, you can do the math any number of ways, but the fact is our focus is on carrying Ohio. We feel good about carrying Ohio and we're going to win Ohio again.

MR. RUSSERT: .... New York Times from yesterday. "Big GOP bid to challenge voters at polls in key states. Thousands recruited as monitors in Ohio," some 3,000 people being paid money per hour to go to the polls and monitor them. Democrats are saying you're trying to suppress the vote.

MR. GILLESPIE: Not at all, Tim. In fact, we are trying to register new voters. We registered 3.4 million voters ....

And I'll tell you what's going on in Ohio that is a concern. If you look at Franklin County, the center of the state, a very important county in the election, there are 815,000 people according to the census, 18 or older eligible to vote. There are 845,000 registered voters. There are 20 counties in Colorado where there are more registered voters than there are eligible voters. In Ohio, there was a report yesterday in the paper of a charged terrorist who was plotting to blow up the Columbus Mall being registered to vote. We've seen people there filing false registrations in exchange for crack cocaine. People with fictitious characters being registered to vote, Dick Tracy and Mary Poppins.

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MR. GILLESPIE: .... I am concerned, this 10,000 lawyers descending on the battleground states. It's clear what the Democratic strategy is and what John Kerry's strategy is. And they sent a memo out to the people on the ground saying alleged tactics of voter intimidation by Republicans, even where none exist. .....

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11. Gillespie’s Plame-gate distortions: Attacked Joe Wilson as a partisan Democrat

What did Gillespie know about Plame-gate, and when did he know it? Time for a subpoena?

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Suffocating the CIA Agent Outing Scandal
By Mark Engler
http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Feb2004/engler0204.html

... Joseph Wilson stayed quiet through most of the controversy. However, after senior administration officials persisted in denying that they had prior knowledge that the intelligence about Niger was bad, Wilson published a July 6 op-ed in the New York Times discussing his trip and his report. “I gave them months to correct the record,” Wilson explained to New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh, referring to the White House, “but they kept on lying.”

The Bush administration was furious at Wilson’s whistle-blowing. Its operatives set out to paint the ambassador as incompetent and politically motivated. Ed Gillespie, the head of the Republican National Committee, attacked Wilson as a partisan Democrat because he had contributed funds to Al Gore’s 2000 election campaign. Gillespie neglected to mention that Wilson had also donated to George W. Bush’s campaign, which he briefly supported. Moreover, Wilson had served George Bush Sr. as a special envoy to Iraq before the first Gulf War, earning high praise from Republicans and Democrats alike.

Far worse than Gillespie’s distortions, two “senior administration officials” provided a half dozen journalists with the information that Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA agent working on weapons of mass destruction. Only one of the journalists, conservative columnist Robert Novak, reported this fact, noting in his July 14 dispatch that the two sources “told me Wilson’s wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate.”

A scandal was born. ...

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12. Ed Gillespie: Democrats = party of "protests, pessimism and political hate speech"

The Other Memo Scandal
By William Rivers Pitt - 15 Nov 2003
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/111503A.shtml

The wires were buzzing last week over a memo leaked ... from the offices of Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller, who is serving as the ranking minority member on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. This is the committee, chaired by Senator Pat Roberts ... tasked to investigate the dazzling lack of mass destruction weapons in Iraq.

The Rockefeller memo outlined a variety of strategies he believed were needed to counteract the partisan defensiveness of Roberts and the majority on the Committee. Roberts has declared that all investigations surrounding the claims made about Iraq's weapons capabilities will be focused only on the CIA and other intelligence agencies ... No questions about the dozens of public statements made by the Bush administration ... No questions about the Office of Special Plans ... No questions about repeated visits to CIA headquarters by Dick Cheney ...

... Another memo surfaced recently ... "GOP Will Trumpet Preemption Doctrine." The story centered around a memo recently prepared by Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie ... GOP strategy was outlined, and talking points were provided. The Globe article states:

The strategy will involve the dismissal of Democrats as the party of "protests, pessimism and political hate speech," Ed Gillespie, Republican National Committee chairman, wrote in a recent memo to party officials -- a move designed to shift attention toward Bush's broader foreign policy objectives rather than the accounts of bloodshed. Republicans hope to convince voters that Democrats are too indecisive and faint-hearted -- and perhaps unpatriotic -- to protect US interests, arguing that inaction during the Clinton years led to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. ...

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13. Gillespie decided to pay convicted felon, Bush-Cheney NE chair Tobin's legal fees

GOP Official Faces Sentence in Phone-Jamming
Democratic Lines Were Blocked in 2002 as New Hampshire Elected U.S. Senator
By Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 17, 2006; Page A10
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/16/AR2006051601712.html

In October 2002, Charles McGee, executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party, was mailed a Democratic flier that offered Election Day rides to the polls. The circular listed telephone numbers of party offices in five cities and towns.

"I paused and thought to myself, I might find out -- I might think of an idea of disrupting those operations," McGee later testified. A Marine Corps veteran, McGee approached the situation like a combat operation: "Eventually the idea coalesced into disrupting their phone lines . . . military common sense that if you can't communicate, you can't plan and organize."

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Tobin, a longtime GOP operative, was later appointed New England chairman for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign, but resigned when he became a subject of the federal criminal inquiry. On Dec. 15, 2005, Tobin, 45, was convicted of two counts of telephone harassment.

Former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie decided to pay Tobin's legal fees. "He was accused of doing something in his capacity as an RNC consultant, and we believed him to be innocent," Gillespie said. While the RNC had no contractual obligation, "it's the custom, not written anywhere, that you covered your people," Gillespie said.

Gillespie said he informed the White House, but did not seek formal approval, before authorizing the payments. Mehlman said that under his chairmanship, consulting contracts now explicitly declare that independent contractors must be prepared to pay their own legal costs in civil and criminal cases.

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17. Ed Gillespie is struggling to find a way to shield the White House

A Third-Rate Crank Phone Call
by emptywheel
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2006/05/a_thirdrate_cra.html

The Republican Party just spent $3 million to try to prevent a guy from serving 10 months of jail time for sponsoring crank phone calls ... a point of comparison ... RNC's legal fees exceed the $2.4 million spent by Sununu, the winner of the U.S. Senate race.

... a bunch of Neocon donors ... plan to spend $5 million to make sure Scooter Libby doesn't do anything that might send Dick Cheney to jail ...

Does that seem rather like overkill to you? $3 million dollars for an offense--telephone harassment--with a maximum sentence of two years?

... Ed Gillespie is struggling to find a way to shield the White House from any responsibility for the decision to spend $3 million to defend a guy for sponsoring crank phone calls ...

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14. RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie Statement on ACT Sending Felons Door to Door

Here is a sample of what the RNC was saying during the 2004 election, when not
working on caging minority Florida servicemen in Iraq to block their votes:

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RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie Statement on ACT Sending Felons Door to Door
Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - Contact: Christine Iverson - 202-863-8614
http://hitechforbush.com/Blog/BlogPost.aspx?BlogPostID=1012

Washington, DC - RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie: “It is disturbing that the voter mobilization arm of the Democratic Party is proudly hiring felons convicted of sex offenses, assault and burglary to go house to house and handle sensitive personal information.”

“Democrat voters should be leery of opening their doors to political operatives until the Democrats can assure them that a convicted felon won't be on the other side.”

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15. President Bush Announces Ed Gillespie as New Counselor to the President

President Bush Announces Ed Gillespie as New Counselor to the President
Oval Office
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/06/20070613-3.html

THE PRESIDENT: When Dan told me that he was going to leave the White House so he could spend more time with his three young children and his wife, I never thought I'd be able to find somebody ...

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22. Tenet Shareholder Committee page from 6-1-06: "After Enron: Tenet?"

http://www.tenetshareholdercommittee.org/After_Enron_Tenet_.b.25.htm