Karl Rove and His Mysterious Alabama "Lawyer"

http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2009/08/karl-rove-and-his-mysterious-alabama.html


One of the most curious moments in Karl Rove's recent testimony about the Don Siegelman case came when the former Bush White House adviser was asked about his primary contacts in Alabama.

Rove mentioned two familiar names--William Canary, head of the Business Council of Alabama, and Kelley McCullough Robertson, former Southeast political director for the Republican National Committee and state director for Karl Rove & Co.

Almost as an afterthought, Rove threw out a third name--a "lawyer" named McDonald. Strangely, Rove could not seem to remember the person's first name or hometown.

Which raises this question: Who in the heck is this McDonald person?

A source with strong knowledge of Alabama politics tells Legal Schnauzer that Rove probably was referring to Sidney L. McDonald, a prominent businessman from Town Grove, Alabama, and founder of DeltaCom Long Distance Services, the largest Alabama-owned telecommunications company.

McDonald has served in both the Alabama House of Representatives and the Alabama Senate and was one of the first members of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE).

Perhaps of most interest here at Legal Schnauzer is this: McDonald has served on the University of Alabama Board of Trustees since 1992. That's the outfit that oversees the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). It's also the outfit that almost certainly either pushed for, or approved of, my unlawful termination in May 2008.

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Elliot Mincberg, counsel for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, let the McDonald reference slide right on by. Maybe it's time somebody checks into it.
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