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UTUSN

(70,497 posts)
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 11:07 PM Aug 2016

Kellyanne was a wingnut terror as FITZPATRICK before CONWAY. Along with Barbara OLSON



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellyanne_Conway
[font size=5]Kellyanne Conway (FITZPATRICK)[/font]

After practicing law, Conway entered the polling business with Wirthlin Group, a GOP polling firm which worked for Ronald Reagan. She also worked for a period for Luntz Research Companies before founding her own firm, The Polling Company, in 1995. Among the political figures Conway has worked for are the late Congressman Jack Kemp; former Vice President Dan Quayle; Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich; Senator Fred Thompson and Congressman (now Indiana Governor) Mike Pence.[2] She worked as the senior advisor to Newt Gingrich during his 2012 United States presidential election campaign.[3] In August 2015, she became the president of the Promise I Super-PAC which supported the 2016 presidential campaign of Ted Cruz and is part of a group of 4 super-PACs supporting Cruz. Its main funding was 11 million dollars from hedgefund manager Robert Mercer.[4]

In addition to her political opinion research work, Conway has directed demographic and attitudinal survey projects for trade associations and private companies, including American Express, ABC News, Major League Baseball, and Ladies Home Journal.[2] Her firm The Polling Company also includes WomanTrend, a research and consulting division created to better connect corporate America with the female consumer. WomanTrend monitors female consumers as well as a multitude of current and prospective lifestyle, home, work, entertainment, technological, and generational trends affecting all consumers.[2]

Conway has been featured frequently as a commentator on polling and the political scene, having appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, and the Fox News Channel, in addition to various radio programs. She has received the Washington Post's “Crystal Ball” award for accurately predicted elections.[2] In 2012, in an interview with the Family Research Council, Conway compared Republican criticism of Todd Akin (R-MO), one of Conway's clients, to the siege in 1993 of cult leader David Koresh. An Akin representative said that Conway's comments were "stupid". Conway said she was not comparing Akin to Koresh, but instead comparing the FBI's tactics to force Koresh out with the Republican's tactics to force Akin out of the 2012 election.[5]

(Wiki)
[font size=5]Barbara Kay Olson[/font]
(née Bracher; December 27, 1955 – September 11, 2001) was an American lawyer and conservative television commentator who worked for CNN, Fox News Channel, and several other outlets.[1] She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 en route to a taping of Bill Maher's television show Politically Incorrect when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks. Her original plan had been to fly to California on September 10, but delayed until the next morning so that she could wake up with her husband on his birthday, September 11.

Olson's support in 1991 of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas led to the formation of the Independent Women's Forum. At that time, Olson and friend Rosalie (Ricky) Gaull Silberman started an informal network of women who supported the Thomas nomination to the Supreme Court despite allegations of sexual harassment by Anita Hill, a former subordinate of Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Olson, who had also worked under Thomas at the EEOC and was a close friend of Thomas, spoke out on his behalf during his contentious Senate confirmation hearings. Olson later helped edit The Real Anita Hill, a book by David Brock that savaged Hill and portrayed the harassment claim as a political dirty trick (Brock later recanted his claims and apologized to Hill). The Independent Women's Forum continued on with a goal of retaining a high profile group of women to advocate for economic and political freedom and personal responsibility.

In 1994, Olson became chief investigative counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. In that position, she led the Travelgate and Filegate investigations into the Clinton administration. She was later a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the Birmingham, Alabama law firm Balch & Bingham.

Personal life
She married Theodore Olson in 1996, becoming his third wife.[4] Theodore went on to successfully represent presidential candidate George W. Bush in the Supreme Court case of Bush v. Gore, and subsequently served as U.S. Solicitor General in the Bush administration.

Olson was a frequent critic of the Bill Clinton administration and wrote a book about then First Lady Hillary Clinton, Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton (1999). Olson's second book, The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House was published posthumously.

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Lance Bass esquire

(671 posts)
1. Say what you will about Olson
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 11:15 PM
Aug 2016

But her husband had a change of heart after she died.
I admired him jumping ship and doing this.

Per Wikki


Olson, over time, came to believe that there is a constitutional right for same-sex marriage.[9] In 2009, he joined with David Boies, his opposing counsel in Bush v. Gore, to bring a federal lawsuit, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, challenging Proposition 8, a California state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.[10] His work on the lawsuit earned him a place among the Time 100's greatest thinkers.[11] In 2011, Olson and David Boies were awarded the ABA Medal, the highest award of the American Bar Association.[12]

UTUSN

(70,497 posts)
2. Yeah, I will say what I will about both of them.
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 11:23 PM
Aug 2016

* He was the a-hole who played his part in Coup 2000 and then made BOIES beg for more.

* Being correct on *one* issue won't buy him Heaven. LIMBOsevic, the KOCHs, and countless other horrible people do more millions of charity work than I will ever do, but it won't save them. HITLER loved dogs and LIMBOsevic loves Xmas.

JI7

(89,182 posts)
3. i don't think Olson was ever as bad as kellyanne and many of the other wingnuts i remember from the
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 11:33 PM
Aug 2016

90s .

UTUSN

(70,497 posts)
5. I remember that FITZPATRICK & B.OLSON were as big fraggers then as COULTERgeist/INGRAHAM now
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 11:44 PM
Aug 2016

Let's review the paragraph about Clarence THOMAS.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
4. Olson also didn't spend a lot of time mourning, either.
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 11:42 PM
Aug 2016

He was out on the DC cocktail circuit, cutting the rug (LITERALLY) with a glamorous date not three months after that horrific event.

I found it unseemly. I realize you don't have to die when your spouse dies, but to be out and about, dancing with a hot date (and she was a knockout) at trendy holiday parties (of the sort Washingtonian covers and takes pics of all the drunks smiling in their designer duds), when the whole country was still trying to wrap our heads around the enormity of the attack?

Some times, ya just gotta say "Too soon."

FWIW, the late Mrs. Olson always set my teeth on edge when she appeared on TV. Still, that had to be an awful way to go. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

As for Ted, he was also the lead litigator on Citizens United...so he's not quite totally come into the light:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/01/citizens-united-lead-counsel-on-the-decision/33971/

JI7

(89,182 posts)
6. especially since this was 9-11 and the country as a whole was still in the early period
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 11:51 PM
Aug 2016

of grief and dealing with that horrible attack.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
7. Then again, he's the type of guy who just can't be alone.
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 12:05 AM
Aug 2016

He marries readily. He's on wife number four now, a charming young woman named (really) Lady Booth.

Wedding pics (Robert Bork in attendance):

http://abovethelaw.com/2006/10/lady-and-teds-excellent-adventure-wedding-photos-that-rock/

I had a cousin like that; he'd be sobbing at the grave and wanting to jump in. His first wife left him with a bunch of kids and ran off with a cop, the 2nd wife raised those kids and died on a holiday abroad, the 3rd wife couldn't keep up and died as well. His final lady friend (quite sensibly) refused to marry him--she said she had no interest in dying and he was hard on wives. She buried him!

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