GOP governors choose Guinn as chairman

Guinn was the co-chairman of Nevada's Repuglicon Party's campaign for the re-election of * ...his co-chair was the state's AG Brian Sandoval who has already been rewarded by Reid and Senator Ensign with a nomination to a federal judgeship. I have always smelled a rat when I first heard that Guinn and top state Repuke officials and party officials met with Rove and * a year ago to discuss the Repuke and * campaign strategy for 2004. This is what is amazing about the mastermind manipulations and strategies of Karl Rove.

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The architect of President Bush's re-election addressed the governors at a closed dinner Thursday night in a detailed, statistical explication of how Bush won, according to some who were there, including Missouri Gov.-elect Matt Blunt and Ohio Gov. Bob Taft.

Before departing, the Republican Governor's Association members chose Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn its new chairman, succeeding Taft. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts was chosen vice chairman.

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There was no mistaking the partisan nature of the group he addressed Friday, however, nor of the politics-oriented buzz that surrounded the gathering: satisfaction that Republicans have now increased their previous 28-22 majority by one, with the apparent win of Washington Gov.-elect Dino Rossi, and plotting to add more governorships to the GOP column.

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