Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Rove still hides behind the curtain....

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News that two former top Bush strategists have formed a spinoff organization to dig up dirt on Congressional Democrats before the 2010 elections has reignited a debate about how the Obama administration has structured the Democratic Party's own political operations.

On Wednesday morning, Politico reported that American Crossroads GPS, the organization formed by operatives Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, hauled in an impressive $5.1 million in June. A separate legal entity from its parent shop, American Crossroads (a distinction that allows it to hide the names of its donors), GPS was poised to use that money for the ostensible purpose of wreaking havoc on behalf of Republican candidates.

It's the type of secretive electioneering that has Democrats publicly crying foul -- the Democratic National Committee sent out the story on Wednesday morning. In private, however, party operatives expressed anxiety with the development.

2 comments:

Steve Bates said...

Why is Rove still out of jail? What bargain did he strike, and with whom, to retain his freedom to continue pursuing his manifestly criminal approach to politicking?

ellroon said...

He knows too much about the people who could fire him... he still has a link to the NSA secret warrantless wiretapping and all those tapes of the various Congresspeople misbehaving....