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Alabama is as red a state as the clay in its earth. After the years of rule by Southern Democrats, Republicans have now taken up residence in the Governor's mansion, as well as most statewide offices and congressional seats. In the 1990s Rove helped orchestrate a GOP near sweep of the Alabama Supreme Court...
...Young transcripts will probably add fuel to charges that the Bush Administration pursued selective justice in Alabama. Leura Canary, the U.S. Attorney whose office drove Siegelman's prosecution, is married to Bill Canary, Alabama's most prominent political operative and a longtime friend of Karl Rove's. In May an Alabama lawyer and Republican activist named Dana Jill Simpson gave a notarized statement that she heard Canary say Rove "had spoken with the Department of Justice" about "pursuing" Siegelman, with help from two of Alabama's U.S. Attorneys. Bill Canary called her charge "outrageous," and other alleged participants...
...Young transcripts will probably add fuel to charges that the Bush Administration pursued selective justice in Alabama. Leura Canary, the U.S. Attorney whose office drove Siegelman's prosecution, is married to Bill Canary, Alabama's most prominent political operative and a longtime friend of Karl Rove's. In May an Alabama lawyer and Republican activist named Dana Jill Simpson gave a notarized statement that she heard Canary say Rove "had spoken with the Department of Justice" about "pursuing" Siegelman, with help from two of Alabama's U.S. Attorneys. Bill Canary called her charge "outrageous," and other alleged participants...
...White House defense, as articulated by Bush's former political adviser Karl Rove, has been that spending starts in Congress and that Bush threatened to veto Republican spending bills 146 times in the last six years. Given the recession Bush inherited, the corporate scandals, the 9/11 attacks and their effect on the economy, plus the war on terror, Katrina and border security, it's practically a miracle that the budget is on track to be balanced by 2012, Rove said in an interview...
...single conservative would begrudge. Take out border security - we've tripled the budget for border security - and again, I don't think many on the right would begrudge those expenditures or the money, and we've kept other discretionary spending virtually flat, often below the rate of inflation," Rove said. "Are there parts of the budget that we've grown? Yes. But if you look at the discretionary domestic side of the budget, you'll see we've put the brakes on pretty hard...