Rove Has Done This Before!!!

[Mr_King]

I was over at Wikipedia and looked him up and found out something intresting the MSM has not talked about.

"Rove worked in various Republican circles and assisted George H.W. Bush's 1980 vice-presidential campaign. There is unproven speculation that he was subsequently fired from the campaign for leaking information to journalist Robert Novak."

Again

"In 1992, Rove was fired from George H. W. Bush's 1992 presidential re-election campaign for allegedly leaking information to journalist Robert Novak. State campaign manager Robert Mosbacher had allotted Rove only one-quarter of the campaign's $1 million direct mail contract, after Rove had the entire contract in 1988. As Novak wrote, "Also attending the session was political consultant Karl Rove, who had been shoved aside by Mosbacher". Novak's column described the firing of Mosbacher by former Senator Phil Gramm.

Novak and Rove deny that Rove was the leaker. Mosbacher maintains that "Rove is the only one with a motive to leak this. We let him go. I still believe he did it."

(Sources: "Karl and Bob: a leaky history," Houston Chronicle, Nov. 7, 2003, ; "Genius," Texas Monthly, March 2003, p. 82; "Why Are These Men Laughing," Esquire, January 2003)

Maybe the 3rd time will be a charm.

Other intresting facts about Rove from Wikipedia

"According to a 2003 New Yorker profile, Rove, the second of five children, found out at nineteen during his parents' divorce negotiations that the man who raised him was not his biological father. Rove's mother would later commit suicide (in Reno, Nevada, in 1981)."

"In 1970, at the age of nineteen and while a protege of Donald Segretti (later convicted as a Watergate conspirator), Rove snuck into the campaign office of Illinois Democrat Alan Dixon and stole some letterhead, which he used to print fake campaign rally fliers promising "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing," and distributed them at rock concerts and homeless shelters. Admitting to the incident much later, Rove said, "I was nineteen and I got involved in a political prank." (The Nation).

"In 1986, just before a crucial debate in the election for governor of Texas, Karl Rove announced that his office had been bugged by the Democrats, but no proof was provided. Critics speculate that it was a publicity stunt, however they provide no proof for this allegation."

[havocmom]

1. Yep, deja vou all over again

welcome to DU, Mr_King! Keep getting info like this out to the people. It really does make a difference
:hi:

[still_one]

2. surprise surprise

[rzemanfl]

3. As to the last item there is a good deal of proof, as I recall

the transmitter range of the bug was exceedingly small and it had a really short battery life, the combination of the two made it useless as a surveillance device. This was in Bush's Brain.

[Emit]

4. I was aware of the Mosbacher claim in 1992

But I was not aware of the 1980 leak to Novak. Hmmmm.

[teach1st]

5. A great related thread...

...by H2O Man:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4175105

[montieg]

6. Go to the Texas Observer site

and search "Rove". TO has been documenting the long and sordid history of this scaborous POS for a LONG time.

[Lisa]

7. more on Rove's dirty tricks

I guess you're thinking of that story about Rove's penchant for getting back at people who've so much as criticized him in public ...

"On one panel of political reporters, Fox News reporter Jonathan Broder lamented for the day when loyalty to party, candidate, and ideology meant something. He referred to Mark McKinnon, who had made the switch from Ann Richards to George Bush without blushing. In his biographical sketch of McKinnon, who had graduated from high school in nearby Denver, Broder erred on one minor detail, to trivial to mention–for most listeners. After the panel discussion ended, we were approached by a small, utterly charming woman who pointed out Broder’s error. "I’m Mark’s mother," she said.

When it was my turn to speak on a later panel–about Rove– I recalled that he had lived in Utah, which at the moment didn’t seem too far away. "Before I start," I said, "I would like to know if Karl Rove’s sister or wife is in the audience." When the scattered laughter ended, I delivered my remarks on Rove. A week later, in my office in Austin, I received a one-sentence handwritten note: Sir, Not a sister or a wife, but my aunt, armed with a tape recorder.

It was from Rove."


http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=711


Kinda creepy!

other stories here:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-10-13/pols_feature8.html

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20010305&s=dubose

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1165126,00.html

[Mr_King]

8. C-Span's Washington Journel

Somebody was on Washington Journel yesterday and mentioned he saw a story about Rove being fired by the H.W. Bush campaigns in 80 & 92 for talking to Bob Novak. He couldn't remember where on the internet he saw the story, I wonder if it was here at DU.