rove and Gannon share a mentor

[rumpel]

More interesting is that he and Karl Rove seem to share a mentor -- a largely under-the-radar wingnut named Morton Blackwell. It seems that "Jeff" also is a graduate of the the Leadership Institute Broadcast School of Journalism -- a conservative propagandist training school that was founded and is run by Blackwell and that operates on an $8 million annual budget which comes from God knows where.

sorry if this was posted already

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/extra/archives/001437.html

[CollegeDNC]

1. Now we know how Gannon got into the press room

That's probably not all they share...how do people think Gannon got into
the press room, cause Rove "Paid for his services" if you know what I mean

[rumpel]

2. hehe

[Warpy]

5. There are only 3 people with enough pull to get "Gannon"

past even a cursory FBI or Secret Service investigation: Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, and Dina Powell.

It could be any of those three.

[Auntie Bush]

9. No, I don't know what you mean. Please explain in full frontal detail!

:evilgrin:

[EVDebs]

3. Anything to do with The Fellowship, that Madsen is looking into ? eom

[rumpel]

4. Here is the leadership Intsitute site

http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/01ABOUTUS/02MCBlackwell.htm

"non-partisan" my foot!

[blm]

6. Can RevMoon be far behind?

.

[rumpel]

7. Congressional "bi-partisn" advisory board:

THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE’S
Bi-PartisanCongressionalAdvisoryBoard
U.S. Representatives
Robert Aderholt...................................Alabama
Sue Myrick...........................................North Carolina
Todd Akin............................................Missouri
Randy Neugebauer...............................Texas
Cass Ballenger.....................................North Carolina
C. L. Otter............................................Idaho
Roscoe Bartlett.....................................Maryland
Ron Paul...............................................Texas
Joe Barton............................................Texas
Mike Pence...........................................Indiana
Rob Bishop..........................................Utah
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.............................Florida
Marsha Blackburn................................Tennessee
John Peterson.......................................Pennsylvania
Roy Blunt.............................................Missouri
Chip Pickering......................................Mississippi
John Boehner.......................................Ohio
Joseph Pitts...........................................Pennsylvania
John Boozman......................................Arkansas
Richard Pombo.....................................California
Kevin Brady.........................................Texas
George Radanovich..............................California
Richard Burr.........................................North Carolina
Dana Rohrabacher................................California
Dan Burton...........................................Indiana
Ed Royce..............................................California
Sonny Callahan....................................Alabama
Jim Ryun..............................................Kansas
Christopher Cannon.............................Utah
Pete Sessions........................................Texas
Mac Collins..........................................Georgia
John Shadegg.......................................Arizona
John Cooksey.......................................Louisiana
John Shimkus.......................................Illinois
Chris Cox.............................................California
Mike Simpson......................................Idaho
Philip M. Crane....................................Illinois
Joseph Skeen........................................New Mexico
Barbara Cubin......................................Wyoming
Lamar Smith.........................................Texas
John Culberson.....................................Texas
Mark Souder.........................................Indiana
Tom DeLay..........................................Texas
Cliff Stearns.........................................Florida
Jim DeMint..........................................South Carolina
Bob Stump............................................Arizona
John Doolittle.......................................California
John Sullivan........................................Oklahoma
David Dreier.........................................California
John Sweeney.......................................New York
John Duncan, Jr....................................Tennessee
Thomas Tancredo.................................Colorado
Jennifer Dunn.......................................Washington
Charles Taylor......................................North Carolina
Philip English.......................................Pennsylvania
Lee Terry..............................................Nebraska
Randy Forbes.......................................Virginia
Todd Tiahrt..........................................Kansas
Virgil Goode, Jr....................................Virginia
David Vitter..........................................Louisiana
Bob Goodlatte......................................Virginia
Zach Wamp..........................................Tennessee
Mark Green..........................................Wisconsin
Dave Weldon........................................Florida
Gil Gutknecht.......................................Minnesota
Edward Whitfield.................................Kentucky
Ralph Hall............................................Texas
Joe Wilson............................................South Carolina
Melissa Hart.........................................Pennsylvania
Frank Wolf...........................................Virginia
J. Dennis Hastert..................................Illinois
J.D. Hayworth......................................Arizona
U.S. Senators
Wally Herger........................................California
Van Hilleary.........................................Tennessee
George Allen.........................................Virginia
Peter Hoekstra......................................Michigan
Wayne Allard........................................Colorado
Kenny Hulshof.....................................Missouri
Sam Brownback....................................Kansas
Duncan Hunter.....................................California
Saxby Chambliss...................................Georgia
Henry Hyde..........................................Illinois
John Cornyn..........................................Texas
Ernest Istook .......................................Oklahoma
Larry Craig............................................Idaho
Walter B. Jones....................................North Carolina
Mike Crapo...........................................Idaho
Peter King............................................New York
John Ensign...........................................Nevada
Steve King............................................Iowa
William Frist.........................................Tennessee
Jack Kingston.......................................Georgia
Charles E. Grassley...............................Iowa
Mark Kirk............................................Illinois
Orrin Hatch...........................................Utah
Ron Lewis............................................Kentucky
James M. Inhofe....................................Oklahoma
Don Manzullo......................................Illinois
Jon Kyl..................................................Arizona
Jim McCrery........................................Louisiana
Trent Lott.............................................Mississippi
Larry McDonald........(deceased)..........Georgia
Mitch McConnell.................................Kentucky
Scott McInnis.......................................Colorado
Don Nickles..........................................Oklahoma
Howard McKeon..................................California
Rick Santorum......................................Pennsylvania
Jeff Miller............................................Florida
Jim Talent.............................................Missouri
** As of 2/6/04 - 109 **
The Leadership Institute was founded in 1979 as a non-partisan, non-profit, educational foundation. It is classified as
a 501(c)(3) organization, and neither supports nor opposes candidates or proposed legislation.

on edit
it seems House & Senate names got mixed up from copy and paste function-sorry

[riverwalker]

8. behind the purple heart band-aids at RNC

Morton Blackwell was actually handing them out.

http://www.documenting-democracy.org/archives/2004/09/morton_blackwel.html

[rumpel]

10. Compensation of highest paid employees other than officers from their

tax return 2003

Louis Barnett
steven M Bishop
Mark A Centofante
Walter Longyear
Connaught Marshner

Compensation to of five highest paid contractors:

Direct Marketing group
Marketing Partners Direct
Weyrich Media
The Stuber Group Inc

http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/01ABOUTUS/Form990.pdf