Reply #8: YES, and I was shocked! There is an Abramoff tie here too. [View All]

Sara Taylor's (and Abramoff's) assistant Susan B. Ralston also resigned.

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Senior Rove aide leaves White House.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/28/another-top-aide-leaves-white-house

White House political director and top Karl Rove aide Sara Taylor, “who has been with George W. Bush from the outset of his first presidential campaign, is the latest staff member to leave the president’s employ.

Taylor cleared out her office early last week.......

Taylor is reportedly intimately involved in the U.S. Attorney scandal. According to Kyle Sampson, Taylor was directly promoting efforts to appoint attorneys without Senate confirmation. The House and Senate Judiciary Committees have approved subpoenas for her testimony. ......

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Another Top Bush Aide cleared out her office
Michael A. Fletcher - May 28, 2007; Page A15 - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/27/AR2007052700896.html

...... more top aides are headed out to the private sector. Sara M. Taylor, the White House political director and microtargeting guru who has been with George W. Bush from the outset of his first presidential campaign, is the latest staff member to leave the president's employ.

Taylor, 32, was one of the first people put on the payroll of the Bush campaign, trekking through snowy Washington to interview with Karl Rove and Bush, who was then governor of Texas. Taylor worked on the 2000 campaign, and later became a political aide in the White House. ....

Taylor cleared out her office early last week. She plans to take her skills to the private sector, where the pay will no doubt be better than the $137,000 she earned in 2006 as a deputy assistant to the president. ..............

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Top Rove aide, implicated in Attorneys firings, clears out office
Michael Roston - May 28, 2007 - http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Top_Rove_aide_implicated_in_Attorneys_0528.html

A top aide to White House political adviser Karl Rove has 'cleared out her office,' according to a report in Monday's Washington Post. Sara Taylor, Rove's top lieutenant, has seen her name brought up in recent months in Congressional hearings relating to the firing of 8 US Attorneys.

"Taylor, 32, was one of the first people put on the payroll of the Bush campaign," writes Michael Fletcher in the new 'At the White House' column. "Taylor cleared out her office early last week. She plans to take her skills to the private sector."

Taylor is described by Fletcher as skilled in 'microtargeting,' the practice of identifying voting constituencies at their most elemental levels. She has also come up as a potential target for a subpoena from the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, as RAW STORY has earlier reported.

The White House political strategist was first identified as playing a role in the removal of US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas H.E. 'Bud' Cummins during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with D. Kyle Sampson, the former Chief of Staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

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Importantly, regarding Griffin and voter caging and voter purging, is this bit in the WA Post story, "... Taylor was among those who helped use sophisticated analysis of consumer data to enable the Bush campaign to target potential voters..." I have to ask, targeted for what?

LOTS MORE: (from) EXIT RIGHT. Sara Taylor, WH political director, Rove Aide RESIGNS? "subpoenas for her testimony"
May-28-07 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x990202