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...President Bush and his political guru Karl Rove were big Riordan backers, and the former Los Angeles mayor came back into politics at Bush's urging. But Riordan never seemed especially enthused. He didn't bother to prepare for politics outside Los Angeles. He displayed little knowledge of statewide issues, once telling farmers that his plan for helping agriculture was to hire the best experts on the subject...
...Reports from the White House say it came down to Paul O'Neill the free-market economist against Karl Rove the GOP vote-counter. Pork politics - just those few rust-belt votes can lock down the House in 2002 and the White House in 2004 - won. And man-of-integrity Bush, who by keeping one campaign promise to West Virginia sold out not only his free-market principles but also most of his own party, is now sporting a sizeable black...
Your article danced around the idea of a possible White House scandal while offering the weakest support of the allegations I have ever read. So five years ago, while George W. Bush was Governor of Texas, Karl Rove recommended Ralph Reed for a job at Enron. How is that illegal or unethical? And a few sentences in a government report may have been altered at the suggestion of Ken Lay. But that is unimportant, because the energy policy the report advocated was never enacted by Congress. You need to focus on fair and balanced reporting. DAN LONG Huntingdon Valley...
Another name on Lay's White House list was that of Nora Brownell, a Pennsylvania utility regulator. Enron discovered her in 1997 when it was trying to break into the lucrative Pennsylvania electricity market. (That year Bush adviser Karl Rove recommended that Enron hire political strategist Ralph Reed to build grass-roots support in the state.) Lay also jumped into the Pennsylvania fray, urging Bush to call his friend Governor Tom Ridge on behalf of Enron. "I called George W. to kind of tell him what was going on," Lay explained to the New York Times. "And I said that...
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