Goodgawd, what a cesspool

His digital footprint is where the evidence of the Trump campaign's complicity with Assange and Russia can be found IMO. Stone started his career on the Comittee to Re-Elect Richard Nixon. History repeats itself in the digital age.

I did see a pic of Atwater, Manafort, and Stone together doing Campaign to RE Elect the President work, while the repugs were pulling all those Watergate election felonies.

But it makes perfect sense.

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It was just Black, Manafort, Stone then, Kelly got added later. Doyle McManus article from the LA Times here:

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-09-02/news/mn-13459_1_capitol-hill


Sourcewatch calls B, M, S, and K "principals", and says Atwater was a "partner".

"Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly (Black, Manafort) was a Washington D.C. lobbying and political consulting firm started in 1982. In 1996, it it merged with Gold & Liebengood to form BKSH & Associates. In 2010, BKSH & Associates and Timmons and Company merged to form Prime Policy Group, a subsidiary of Burson-Marsteller Global Public Relations.[1][2]"

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Black,_Manafort,_Stone_and_Kelly

The BKSH group is Charlie Black and Peter Kelly merged with Skruggs and Healey.

Here's something from Al Franken's book The Truth:

" (Jack) Abramoff (College Republican National Committee Chair, 1981 - 85), (Grover) Norquist (CRNC Executive Director, 1981 - 83), and (Ralph) Reed (E.D., 1983 - 85) were following in the footsteps of Karl Rove, who had been E.D. from 1970 - 72 and national chair from 1973 - 74. Vast-right-wing-conspiracy trivia buffs might also be interested to know that Bush I henchman Lee Atwater managed Rove's first campaign for chairman." (P. 172, hardbound.)

Interesting that Ed Rollins is in the o.p. article bad mouthing Stone. Rollins, like Stone, got into hot water pulling illegal moves in New Jersey elections.

Cute little vignette from Sourcewatch's article on Charlie Black:

"Black's "ties with the Bush family go back to 1972, when he and Karl Rove were jockeying for control of the College Republicans in a campaign so dirty that George H.W. Bush, then head of the Republican National Committee, had to step in and sort matters out," reported Muriel Kane. [6]"

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Charles_R._Black,_Jr.


It's interesting to watch those different repug principal actors gouge and infight with each other, as they jockey for position and power. It's like watching piranhas snap at each other in a slow moving river. But they forget all about their differences in a split second when a normal person blunders into the water they infest.