Tom ("We don't do politics") Ridge met with R pollsters during * campaign

[G_j]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0217-01.htm

Published on Thursday, February 17, 2005 by the Associated Press
Ridge, Pollsters Met During Bush Campaign
by Pete Yost

WASHINGTON - Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge met privately with Republican pollsters twice in a 10-day span last spring as he embarked on more than a dozen trips to presidential battleground states.

Ridge's get-togethers with Republican strategists Frank Luntz and Bill McInturff during a period the secretary was saying his agency was playing no role in Bush's re-election campaign were revealed in daily appointment calendars obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act.

"We don't do politics in the Department of Homeland Security," Ridge told reporters during the election season.

His aides resisted releasing the calendars for over a year, finally providing them to the AP three days after Ridge left office this month.


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[G_j]

1. just more lies, the BS is SO deep

can't find the bottom. :shrug:

[G_j]

2. a bit disturbing that the head of HS found the need to meet w/ Republican

pollsters..:think: