Rove’s PowerPoint Presentation Revealed During Oversight Hearing (Find it Here)!!!

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/28/rove-powerpoint-doan/

In January, General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan and Karl Rove deputy Scott Jennings held a video conference with top GSA political appointees, “who discussed ways to help Republican candidates.”

Jennings, the White House’s deputy director of political affairs, gave a PowerPoint presentation on Jan. 26 of polling data about the 2006 elections.

When Jennings concluded his presentation to the GSA political appointees, Doan allegedly asked them how they could “help ‘our candidates’ in the next elections.”

The Hatch Act explicitly prohibits partisan campaign activities on federal property.

During a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing today, Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) questioned Doan about the contents of Rove’s PowerPoint presentation. Doan repeatedly claimed ignorance of the contents of the slides and the verbal presentation that Jennings made. So Braley reminded her with some examples from this “nonpartisan” briefing:

[JackBeck]

1. And here I was thinking

that the government was supposed to be about the people and not the party.

Silly me.

[John Q. Citizen]

2. That's quite the story, using governemnt employees to shill for the Repos?

Impeach!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. US Federal people/property being used for GOP campaign purposes. This ought to

make the blood of every American boil. It needs to appear in major media.

IT NEEDS TO APPEAR IN MAJOR MEDIA

[Fridays Child]

4. Holy cow! She's a real piece of work. nt

[eleny]

5. What a speecy, spicey meat-a-ball from this hearing

Yup, November was a hum dinger of an election!

[TexasLawyer]

6. the powerpoint presentation

Can these people lie to themselves or WHAT?!

[IChing]

7. she said she didn't remember the powerpoint presentation

or the meeting even though she was there.