TPM: Abramoff assistant links him directly to Rove and Bush boy.

Bush is Rove is Abramoff is DeLay is ...


http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_09_18.php#006598

In all the Abramoff business I'm surprised there has not been more mention of Susan Ralston. In Jack Abramoff's heyday at Preston Gates and then later at Greenberg-Traurig, Ralston was Abramoff's executive assistant, the one who helped dole out the skyboxes, basically administratively ran his whole shop as near as I can figure.

Then when Karl Rove came to town, she took pretty much the same job with him, becoming his gatekeeper at the White House. She was of course one of many Team Abramoff players who got seconded into the administration. Given the close relationship between Abramoff and Grover Norquist, it's probably not surprising that she also had an arrangement with Norquist in which he gave her direction on who to let through to Rove.

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It seems like Ralston was right in the thick of all this. And she's been a top Rove aide for years, seemingly continuing to be involved in various of Abramoff's and Norquist's projects.

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Late Update: As of two months ago, National Journal gave Ralston's title as "Special Assistant to the President & Assistant to the Senior Advisor."

oh, wait......
They ARE thieves...