How Rove Directed Federal Assets for GOP Gains

Source: Washington Post, Sunday, August 19, 2007; Page A01

How Rove Directed Federal Assets for GOP Gains
Bush Adviser's Effort to Promote the President and His Allies Was Unprecedented in Its Reach

By John Solomon, Alec MacGillis and Sarah Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 19, 2007; Page A01

Thirteen months before President Bush was reelected, chief strategist Karl Rove summoned political appointees from around the government to the Old Executive Office Building. The subject of the Oct. 1, 2003, meeting was "asset deployment," and the message was clear:

The staging of official announcements, high-visibility trips and declarations of federal grants had to be carefully coordinated with the White House political affairs office to ensure the maximum promotion of Bush's reelection agenda and the Republicans in Congress who supported him, according to documents and some of those involved in the effort.

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WP pg1: HOW ROVE DIRECTED FEDERAL ASSETS FOR GOP GAINS

Why is all this being made known in the press after Rove announced he's leaving office?

and digging up more evidence. In some ways, the real story has been behind the other stories, somewhat unstated. Why would a presentation to the people awarding the 60 billion in GSA contract focus on specific political races? To tell them where to focus spending, of course. But, newspapers need to be careful what they say directly without proof. Reasonably so, too.

I see the` WA POST as way out front on Bush scandals compared to NYT and WSJ.

campaign contribution. That sounds illegal to me.