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...doing campaigns. It was so much simpler. Maybe it was because Republicans were more businesslike and saw their consultants as employees, rather than saviors (and paid them accordingly-with a flat fee, rather than a percentage of the advertising buy). Maybe it was just the way Bush and Karl Rove went about the practice of politics. But this was, without a doubt, the tidiest political operation he'd ever seen. There was none of the back biting, staff shake-ups or power struggles that were a constant plague upon Democratic campaigns. There was little of the hand wringing about whether...
...Wallace now serves as investment committee chairman for Perry Properties Realty Investment Fund & Perry Properties, a commercial real estate company owned by Will Perry, son of Houston area homebuilder Bob Perry, a top Republican fundraiser in Texas who has enjoyed a long friendship with Karl Rove. Bob Perry made national news when he donated $200,000 to fund the controversial Swiftboat Veterans for Truth ads that challenged Senator John Kerry's war record during the presidential campaign...
...effective on April 15, followed a waterfall of leaks from advisers close to the White House that Bush was finally considering changes at the top after resisting them ever since struggling with the Hurricane Katrina aftermath in September. The outcome showed the strength of Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who along with Vice President Cheney is the last standing of the Oval Office inner circle...
...answer came swiftly from President Bush's outraged Christian base: a lot more. Religious leaders in the U.S. assailed the White House, with activists like Jay Sekulow--who helped rally support for Bush's Supreme Court nominees--bombarding Karl Rove's evangelical liaison with e-mail. Within 48 hours, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had called Afghan President Hamid Karzai and urged Afghanistan's Foreign Minister, who was visiting Washington, to spare Rahman. President Bush declared, "We have got influence in Afghanistan, and we are going to use it to remind them that there are universal values." A White House...
...them showed up to see him at a $1,000-a-plate private fund raiser for Senator Rick Santorum last week in Sewickley Heights, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Santorum posed for photos with the President at the airport and leaned into a smiling handshake with political guru Karl Rove. But it was telling that Santorum, who is trailing state treasurer Bob Casey by 10 points in the latest polls, scheduled no public appearances with Bush. When Cheney flew to Newark, N.J., earlier in the week to raise nearly $400,000 that state senator Tom Kean Jr. badly needs...