2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSenior Mitt Romney campaign adviser Ed Gillespie = Counselor to President Bush, Enron lobbyist
All doubts removed, the candidate is actually George W. Money.
Gillespie speaks volumes of old scandals!
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Deja DU: Ed Gillespie, Tenet Healthcare lobbyist, Ex-RNC chief named President's Counselor
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1111575
Edward W. Gillespie - http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ed_Gillespie
Edward W. Gillespie, a Republican lobbyist for clients including Enron, was selected by President George Walker Bush as National Chairman of the Republican National Committee on June 16, 2003. ...
married to the former Cathy Hay, executive director of U.S. Rep. Joe Barton's political action committee, the Texas Freedom Fund. ...
worked for a decade as a top aide to House Majority Leader Dick Armey and was a principal drafter of the Republican Party's "Contract With America" in 1994. In 1996, he became Director of Communications and Congressional Affairs for the Republican National Committee under then Chairman Haley Barbour. ...
In 2000, Gillespie served as senior communications advisor for the presidential campaign of George W. Bush ...
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DeLay and Gillespie Were Hacks for Enron.
http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/05/republican_char.php
"Tom DeLay...received $28,900 in personal campaign donations from Enron Corp since 1989;
in addition, Enron used as lobbyists two influential members of DeLay's informal kitchen cabinet...
received $10,000 corporate contribution from Enron in 2000 for its unregulated 'soft money';
the group also received $47,250 in regulated contributions in 1995 through 2000 from Enron."
In return, DeLay pushed a "stimulus" bill which would have given Enron a $254 million tax break --
which RNC chairman Ed Gillespie, a registered Enron lobbyist and key Bush ally, lobbied on behalf of.
Enron executives described Gillespie as their key contact to Bush.
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Ed Gillespie
Enron Secretly Funded Ed Gillespie's Lobbying Campaign for Bush's Energy Plan
19-Feb-02 - http://archive.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Ed%20Gillespie
... Newsweek has revealed that Enron secretly funneled $50,000 through corporate whore Grover Norquist's "Americans for Tax Reform," in order to promote Bush's pro-Enron energy plan. The mastermind of this scheme was former Bush consultant Ed Gillespie, who told a baldfaced lie to the media when he claimed his "21st Century Energy Project" was funded by non-profit groups. In fact, every last dime came from corporations who oppose pro-environmental policies to stop global warming. ....
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Ed Gillespie, then RNC chairman, says RNC " does not engage in voter suppression"
Who was in charge of Tim Griffin's voter caging effort in Florida?
The RNC buck stopped at Ed Gillespie, RNC chairman during the 2004 campaign. He says it wasn't the RNC. Who then?
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"I know Jack Abramoff," Gillespie, RNC Chairman replied ...
Abramoff and His Vanishing Friend
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Friday, January 6, 2006; Page A19
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/05/AR2006010501903.html
It almost makes you feel sorry for Jack Abramoff. ... There's a scramble to treat him as a wildly defective gene in an otherwise healthy body politic, and to erase the past. ...
On an Oct. 15, 2003, CNBC broadcast, journalist Alan Murray asked Ed Gillespie, then chairman of the Republican National Committee, about fundraising by "people like Jack Abramoff, who represents Indian tribes here," and another lobbyist whose name I'll leave out because he has not been implicated in any scandals. "Are you going to sit here and tell us that their contributions to your party have nothing to do with their lobbying efforts in Washington?"
"I know Jack Abramoff," Gillespie replied. He mentioned the other lobbyist and insisted: "They are Republicans; they were Republicans before they were lobbyists....
"What the Republicans need is 50 Jack Abramoffs," his friend Grover Norquist told National Journal in 1995.
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Gillespie’s Plame-gate distortions: Attacked Joe Wilson as a partisan Democrat
Edited on Fri Jun-15-07 10:04 AM by L. Coyote
What did Gillespie know about Plame-gate, and when did he know it? Time for a subpoena?
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Suffocating the CIA Agent Outing Scandal
By Mark Engler
http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Feb2004/engler0204.html
... Joseph Wilson stayed quiet through most of the controversy. However, after senior administration officials persisted in denying that they had prior knowledge that the intelligence about Niger was bad, Wilson published a July 6 op-ed in the New York Times discussing his trip and his report. “I gave them months to correct the record,” Wilson explained to New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh, referring to the White House, “but they kept on lying.”
The Bush administration was furious at Wilson’s whistle-blowing. Its operatives set out to paint the ambassador as incompetent and politically motivated. Ed Gillespie, the head of the Republican National Committee, attacked Wilson as a partisan Democrat because he had contributed funds to Al Gore’s 2000 election campaign. .......
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Ed Gillespie: Democrats = party of "protests, pessimism and political hate speech"
The Other Memo Scandal
By William Rivers Pitt - 15 Nov 2003
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/111503A.shtml
The wires were buzzing last week ... the dazzling lack of mass destruction weapons in Iraq.
The Rockefeller memo outlined a variety of strategies he believed were needed to counteract the partisan defensiveness of Roberts and the majority on the Committee. Roberts has declared that all investigations surrounding the claims made about Iraq's weapons capabilities will be focused only on the CIA and other intelligence agencies ... No questions about the dozens of public statements made by the Bush administration ... No questions about the Office of Special Plans ... No questions about repeated visits to CIA headquarters by Dick Cheney ...
... Another memo surfaced recently ... "GOP Will Trumpet Preemption Doctrine." The story centered around a memo recently prepared by Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie ... GOP strategy was outlined, and talking points were provided. The Globe article states:
The strategy will involve the dismissal of Democrats as the party of "protests, pessimism and political hate speech," Ed Gillespie, Republican National Committee chairman, wrote in a recent memo to party officials -- a move designed to shift attention toward Bush's broader foreign policy objectives rather than the accounts of bloodshed. Republicans hope to convince voters that Democrats are too indecisive and faint-hearted -- and perhaps unpatriotic -- to protect US interests, arguing that inaction during the Clinton years led to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. ...
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Gillespie decided to pay convicted felon, Bush-Cheney NE chair Tobin's legal fees
GOP Official Faces Sentence in Phone-Jamming
Democratic Lines Were Blocked in 2002 as New Hampshire Elected U.S. Senator
By Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 17, 2006; Page A10
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/16/AR2006051601712.html
In October 2002, Charles McGee, executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party, was mailed a Democratic flier that offered Election Day rides to the polls. The circular listed telephone numbers of party offices in five cities and towns.
"I paused and thought to myself, I might find out -- I might think of an idea of disrupting those operations," McGee later testified. A Marine Corps veteran, McGee approached the situation like a combat operation: "Eventually the idea coalesced into disrupting their phone lines . . . military common sense that if you can't communicate, you can't plan and organize." .........
Tobin, a longtime GOP operative, was later appointed New England chairman for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign, but resigned when he became a subject of the federal criminal inquiry. On Dec. 15, 2005, Tobin, 45, was convicted of two counts of telephone harassment.
Former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie decided to pay Tobin's legal fees. "He was accused of doing something in his capacity as an RNC consultant, and we believed him to be innocent," Gillespie said. While the RNC had no contractual obligation, "it's the custom, not written anywhere, that you covered your people," Gillespie said.
Gillespie said he informed the White House, but did not seek formal approval ....
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President Bush Announces Ed Gillespie as New Counselor to the President ......
"He's a seasoned hand. He's got excellent judgment. He's a strategic thinker. And I know he'll do a fine job," Bush said after having lunch with Gillespie
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zbdent
(35,392 posts)to Democrats?
Oh, if you didn't get the inference ...
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)of the continuity, or in legal terms, the continuing conspiracy
and the same-old-boy conspirators
ajain31
(63 posts)Ed Gillespie can make all the rounds to the Sunday talk shows that he likes getting invited to but he can not improve upon the defective "product" that he is selling i.e. Mitt Romney. Romney has to come clean with more tax returns and be clear in accepting that he did not receive $100,000.00 or more for three years from BAIN CAPITAL for doing NOTHING!!
On Friday the 13th (7/13/2012) the very illusive Mitt Romney gave very defensive interviews to all FIVE networks on a single day at once!! Just a few days ago Mitt Romney said to FOX News that explaining means that you are WEAK. So his five interviews "explaining" his time at Bain were signs of his weakness!!
Presidential Candidate Mr. Mitt Romney maybe feeling the heat on his role in BAIN Capital, his business experience which was supposed to be his sole criteria for creating jobs and his greatest qualification for running for the American Presidency in the current economy in 2012!
However SEC documents show Mitt Romney as sole owner of all shares of Bain Capital. Romney is shown as CEO, President and Chairman of Board of Bain Capital in 2001 and 2002 then LEGALLY speaking Mitt Romney has been responsible to all that goes on under the banner of Bain Capital.
Mitt Romney can not just share the good like job creation from 1999 to 2002 and leave the ugly like Bankruptcies and layoffs behind as if he had nothing to do about them from 1999 to 2002.
If he really wanted to disassociate himself from Bain Capital he could have resigned and sold all his shares in Bain Capital in February 1999 then it would have been a different matter but to share in the glory of Bain's job creation accept a salary of $100,000 or MORE (where are the Tax Returns?) for three years and only to refuse to take the responsibility of Bankruptcies and layoffs on his WATCH (1999-2002) is trying to have it both ways and then complaining of playing politics having been caught with his hand in the proverbial Cookie Jar that is the very essence of an ACTIVE LEGAL ROLE in Bain Capital till 2002!! Was Romney getting $100,000.00 or more to do NOTHING for BAIN Capital???
Mitt Romney will have to face the consequences of this leaving Bain "lie" that Mitt Romney has brought on upon himself. If we keep reminding the Romney campaign of the Bain exit lie and Romney's ill effects on workers robbing them of their hard earned salaries and life long benefits all the way to November then 7/13/2012 (FRIDAY the 13th) will go down as the turning point of the 2012 Presidential election!
