Rove discloses $2,073 hunting rifle gift

http://www.syracuse.com/newsflash/washington/index.ssf?/base/politics-7/1150498201157840.xml&storylist=washington

WASHINGTON (AP) — The owner of the South Texas ranch where Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a hunting companion chipped in on the gift of a gun for presidential aide Karl Rove last year.

Specifically, a Beretta 687 Silver Pigeon II, a handsome 20-gauge hunting rifle worth $2,073 that Katharine Armstrong and 10 other friends gave the senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President Bush, according to financial disclosure forms released Friday for top White House aides.

Among the others who teamed to give the pricey gift, most of them prominent Texas Republicans from Rove's former hometown of Austin, were Mark McKinnon, the chief media strategist for Bush's two presidential campaigns, and Ernie Angelo, a former Republican national committeeman from Midland

The only detail provided by White House spokesman Ken Lisaius was that the gun was a gift to Rove from friends.

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and now we hear about this???

The mind reels! An embarrassment of riches.

a Beretta 687 Silver Pigeon II, a handsome 20-gauge hunting rifle

Rifles & pistols are measured in caliber .22, 30-30, 30-06, & 457

Shotguns in gauges 10, 12, 20, & 410

I really want to see Rove's fat ass walk a "hunt" a real one ..... not a dick cheney stock 'em
and shoot 'em party.

A bunch of multi-gazillionaires could only pitch in for a measly 2 grand and change shotgun? And a 20-gauge at that? What a bunch of cheapskates!:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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And so I leave it to you.

Not absurdly expensive one either. You could spend an awful lot more, in fact you could spend a lot more than that on just the stock.

That Rove wrote for Angelo to increase the amount of unreported toxic waste that can be spilled.