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"Bob Perry Needs a Hug." ... "Like many election campaigns last fall the [2006 Election] race in Colorado's Seventh Congressional District between Democrat Ed Perlmutter and Republican Rick O'Donnell was a bruising affair. Personal attacks and negative advertising were the order of the day. According to Perlmutter, O'Donnell was a right-winger with dangerous ideas who wanted to privatize Social Security, while pro-O'Donnell ads attacked Perlmutter for being soft on immigration. One such thirty-second spot was especially pointed, claiming that, as state senator, "Ed Perlmutter sponsored legislation giving taxpayer money to illegal immigrants."" ... "On its face, this ad seemed typical, one of thousands run last fall in an unusually hostile political season. Closer inspection, however, revealed that the ad was, on just about every level one can imagine, not what it seemed. For one thing, it wasn't true. The legislation that Perlmutter sponsored did concern taxpayer-funded benefits, but they were for legal immigrants, not illegal ones. The casual viewer might also have assumed that the advertisement had been produced by or in cooperation with O'Donnell's campaign. But his staff had nothing to do with its content, nor was it produced or financed within a thousand miles of Colorado. The ad's genesis, in fact, was a sort of miracle of remote control. Reporters who dug into the story found that funding for the ad had come from a 527 group called Americans for Honesty on Issues (AFHOI). The past several election cycles have seen a large number of these so-called 527's, which are named after the section of the federal tax code that exempts certain political groups from paying taxes." ... "Normal campaign finance limits in raising and spending money do not apply to 527's, a loophole through which millions of dollars have flowed. Due in part to this lack of oversight, 527's have developed a reputation for being shadowy, and AFHOI was no exception. In 2006 the group produced adversarial television ads in nine congressional races across seven states, but when the press started probing, it seemed to vanish into thin air. Its address was a post office box in a UPS store in Alexandria, Virginia; its "contact" was a conservative political consultant in Houston [Texas] named Sue Walden who didn't return calls.Reporters studying the story were unable to determine exactly who had come up with the idea for the ads, who had produced them, or how the Perlmutter-O'Donnell race had been targeted in the first place." ... "The one thing they did find out was the identity of the man who had pumped $3 million into AFHOI and was its sole benefactor: a wealthy Houston homebuilder named Bob Perry. Perry is the nation's largest individual political donor. In 2004 and 2006 he gave a total of $29 million to state and federal races. Last year, more than $9 million of that was channeled through three 527's that aggressively targeted races for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. In spite of such a massive political presence, Perry is as mysterious as some of the groups he funds. He never talks to the press, rarely appears in public, and remains an inscrutable figure even to people to whom he has given hundreds of thousands of dollars. He might have maintained this relatively low profile indefinitely, except that in [the Election of] 2004 he was the largest funder of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth [that attacked the military service of 2004 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry], the controversial 527 that many people credit with derailing John Kerry's presidential campaign. Almost overnight, Perry became a poster boy for the notion that a cabal of wealthy donors, shady consultants, and unaccountable 527's was taking over American politics." ... "Perry first appeared as a real force in Texas politics in 2002, when he dropped $3.8 million into [2002 Election] campaigns, most of it aimed at taking over the state legislature and ultimately recarving Texas into Republican-friendly congressional districts—a gambit coordinated by then-House majority leader [and Texas Republican Representative] Tom DeLay and also heavily funded by San Antonio [Texas] doctor James Leininger and other wealthy Republican donors. He later became the largest single contributor to [Republican] Governor Rick Perry's reelection campaign." ... "[Bob] Perry ultimately contributed $4.5 million to the effort [of the Swift Boat attacks on military veteran John Kerry]." (1, 2, 3, 4) -By S. C. Gwynne -TexasMonthly.com
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Election - 
Firefighters
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Union
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- "Convicted
phone-jammer helping host GOP candidate workshop."
... "The Republican operative who came up with the idea of jamming Democratic
Party and union get-out-the-vote phone lines on Election Day 2002 is back
in the political swim." ... "Charles McGee, vice president of political
and corporate communications at Spectrum Monthly & Printing Inc., sent
out an e-mail recently inviting Republican candidates to a free "GOP Campaign
School" hosted by the company, which publishes Republican mailers and fliers,
the New Hampshire Union Leader reported." ... "A flier about the class
calls it a "nuts and bolts boot camp" to give participants "all the tools
you need to win."" ... "Hundreds of hang-up calls placed by a telemarketing
firm tied up phone lines set up by the [New Hampshire] state Democratic
Party and the Manchester firefighters union for more than an hour the morning
of Election Day 2002, when then-U.S. [Republican] Rep. John Sununu defeated
Democratic Gov. Jeanne Shaheen in a tight U.S. Senate race." ... "McGee,
the former executive director of the state Republican Party, pleaded guilty
to conspiracy in the phone-jamming scheme and served seven months in prison."
-AP via -BostonGlobe
2002
Election -Phone
- Politics
- New
Hampshire - "Phone-Jamming
Records Point to White House: Phone Records in Court
Show People in Election Phone Jamming Called White House." ... "Republican
officials describe the two-dozen calls to the White House around Election
Day 2002 as normal conversations about a close Senate race in New Hampshire."
... "Democrats have suggested in a court filing that another subject was
discussed: a GOP scheme that jammed phone lines to keep state Democrats
from being encouraged to vote." ... "The phone-jamming operation has led
to three federal convictions and a pending indictment. Prosecutors have
not raised questions in court about the White House conversations but records
of the calls were available to them as criminal court exhibits." (1, 2,
3)
-ABCNEWS.com
Tom
DeLay - Texas
- Business
- Politics
- 2002
Election - "DeLay
Is Charged With Criminal Conspiracy in Texas." ...
"Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the powerful House Republican majority
leader, was accused by a Texas grand jury today of criminal conspiracy
in a campaign fund-raising scheme." ... "Mr. DeLay was indicted on one
count charging that he violated state election laws in September 2002."
... "State law prohibits use of corporate contributions to advocate the
election or defeat of state candidates, and prosecutors accuse the DeLay
organization of engaging in a complex scheme to circumvent the law." -By
David Stout -NYTimes
Tom
DeLay - Texas- Business
- Politics
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Election - 
CA
- "House
Majority Leader DeLay Indicted for Conspiracy (Update2)."
... "U.S. Representative Tom DeLay, the No. 2 Republican in the House,
was indicted by a Texas grand jury on a charge of criminal conspiracy in
connection with illegal corporate political donations." ... "DeLay, 58,
who faces up to two years in prison, will temporarily step aside as House
majority leader, he said in a statement. House Speaker Dennis Hastert said
he will recommend that Representative David Dreier of California replace
the Texas Republican as leader, the Associated Press reported." ... "The
charge stems from an investigation into alleged use of illegal corporate
contributions by DeLay's political action committee, Texans for a Republican
Majority, in the 2002 races for the [Texas] state House of Representatives."
-By Darrell Preston and Laura Litvan
-Bloomberg
Tom
DeLay - Austin
- Texas
- 2002
Election - Political
- Business
- "DeLay
indicted, steps down as majority leader." ... "Rep.
Tom DeLay said Wednesday that he will step aside as House majority leader
after a Texas grand jury indicted him on a conspiracy charge." ... "A grand
jury in Austin charged DeLay, 58, and two associates already facing criminal
charges with a single count of criminal conspiracy, accusing them of improperly
funneling corporate donations to a DeLay-founded political action committee
to Republican candidates for the Texas Legislature in 2002."
-CNN
Tom
DeLay - Texas
- Business
- Politics
- 2002
Election - [PDF]
- "The
State of Texas vs. John Dominick Colyandro, James Walter Ellis, & Thomas
Dale DeLay." -FindLaw/Documents
Tom
DeLay - Austin
- Texas
- Business
- Politics
- 2002
Election - "DeLay
Indicted in Texas Campaign Finance Probe." ... "A
Texas grand jury today indicted House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and two
political associates, charging them with a conspiracy to violate Texas
campaign finance laws. DeLay said he was temporarily stepping down from
his post as the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives."
... "The indictment names John Colyandro and James Ellis as DeLay's co-conspirators,
Travis Dist. Atty. Ronald Earle announced in Austin." ... "Specifically,
Earle's office said, DeLay is charged with conspiring with Ellis and Colyandro
"to violate the Texas Election Code by contributing corporate money to
certain candidates for the Texas legislature."" ... "The 2002 legislative
election at the center of the arrangement led to a historic realignment
of the Texas House, just before it took up a redistricting measure that
would eventually realign U.S. House districts in Texas under a map favorable
to Republicans." -By James Gerstenzang
-LAtimes
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- Tom
DeLay -2002
Election - "Judge
Rules Group Tied to DeLay Violated Election Law."
... "In the first major legal decision involving associates of Representative
Tom DeLay, a Texas judge ruled today that a political action committee
formed by Mr. Delay had broken campaign finance laws as it propelled the
Republican Party into power in the Texas House in 2002." ... "It does not
directly implicate Mr. DeLay, the majority leader of the United States
House of Representatives, of any wrongdoing; he was not named as a defendant
in the case." ... "But the outcome marked an important symbolic victory
for Mr. DeLay's critics, lending credence to allegations that his allies
used illegal campaign finance tactics to expand the Republican majority."
-By Anne E. Kornblut -NYTimes
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- Tom
DeLay -2002
Election - "Judge
rules against DeLay PAC official." ... "A judge today
ruled that the treasurer of a political committee formed by U.S. House
Majority Leader Tom DeLay violated Texas election law by failing to report
nearly $600,000 in corporation contributions." ... "The money was spent
by the committee in 2002 legislative races to help elected Republicans
to the Texas Legislature." ... "Bill Ceverha, who served as treasurer of
the Texans for a Republican Majority political action committee, was ordered
to pay $197,000 to five losing Democratic candidates in 2002 races." -By
Wayne Slater -DallasNews.com
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- - Tom
DeLay -Austin
- 2002
Election - "New
ethics cloud over leading U.S. Republican DeLay."
... "Ethics questions swirling around U.S. House of Representatives Majority
Leader Tom DeLay mounted on Thursday when a Texas judge ruled that a committee
the powerful Republican had formed violated state law by failing to disclose
$600,000 in mostly corporate donations." ... "State District Judge Joe
Hart in Austin [Texas] made the ruling in a lawsuit filed by five Democratic
candidates defeated in 2002 by Republicans who received money from Texans
for a Republican Majority, a political action committee founded by DeLay
to help Republicans capture the Texas Legislature." (1, 2)
-By Mark Babineck -Reuters
via-WashingtonPost
Burns
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Abramoff
- Money
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Government
- Law
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Michigan
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School
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Montana
- 2002
Election - "Tribal
Grant Is Being Questioned: Senator Who Had Dealings
With Lobbyist Abramoff Pushed for Award." ... "A $3 million grant from
a federal program intended for impoverished Indian tribal schools went
to one of the richest tribes in the country under pressure from Sen. Conrad
Burns (R-Mont. [Republican-Montana]), who oversees the budget of the Bureau
of Indian Affairs." ... "The tribe that last year received the money for
a new school, the Saginaw Chippewas of Michigan, was at the time a client
of Jack Abramoff, a prominent Republican lobbyist whose practices are the
subject of multiple federal investigations. Abramoff, his associates and
his wealthy tribal clients have been an important source of Burns's campaign
funds, providing 42 percent of the contributions to his "soft-money" political
action committee from 2000 to 2002, according to federal election records."
... "Burns pressed for the appropriation over the objections of Interior
officials, who said that the grant was not intended for such a purpose."
... "The Saginaws, who operate a casino northwest of Detroit, are well-to-do,
with each member of the tribe receiving $70,000 a year from gambling profits.
The tribe was given authorization for $3 million to build a new school
on the reservation under a program created to help impoverished tribes
make repairs to dilapidated school buildings." ... "As chairman of the
Interior Appropriations subcommittee, Burns controls funding for the Bureau
of Indian Affairs and is in a key position for tribes seeking special projects.
His political action and campaign committees have received $137,000 from
Abramoff" (1, 2)
-By Susan Schmidt -WashingtonPost
Karl
Rove - 
Gordon
Smith - 
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Oregon
- "Oregon
Water Saga Illuminates Rove's Methods With Agencies."
... "In a darkened conference room, [Republican President Bush] White House
political strategist Karl Rove was making an unusual address to 50 top
managers at the U.S. [United States] Interior Department. Flashing color
slides, he spoke of poll results, critical constituencies -- and water
levels in the Klamath River basin." [The Klamath River runs from Oregon
into California] ... "At the time of the meeting, in January 2002, Mr.
Rove had just returned from accompanying [Republican] President Bush on
a trip to Oregon, where they visited with a Republican senator facing re-election
[2002]. Republican leaders there wanted to support their agricultural base
by diverting water from the river basin to nearby farms, and Mr. Rove signaled
that the administration did, too." ... "Three months later, Interior Secretary
Gale Norton stood with [Oregon Republican Senator] Sen. Gordon Smith in
Klamath Falls and opened the irrigation-system head gates that increased
the water supply to 220,000 acres of farmland -- a policy shift that continues
to stir bitter criticism from environmentalists and Indian tribes." ...
"Though Mr. Rove's clout within the administration often is celebrated,
this episode offers a rare window into how he works behind the scenes to
get things done. One of them is with periodic visits to cabinet departments.
Over the past two years Mr. Rove or his top aide, Kenneth Mehlman -- now
manager of Mr. Bush's re-election campaign -- have visited nearly every
agency to outline White House campaign priorities, review polling data
and, on occasion, call attention to tight House, Senate and gubernatorial
races that could be affected by regulatory action." ... "On [January] Jan.
5, Mr. Rove accompanied the president to an appearance in Portland [Oregon]
with Mr. Smith. The president signaled his desire to accommodate agricultural
interests, saying "We'll do everything we can to make sure water is available
for those who farm."" ... "The next day, Mr. Rove made sure that commitment
didn't fall through the cracks. He visited the 50 Interior managers attending
a department retreat at a Fish and Wildlife Service conference center in
Shepherdstown, W.Va. [West Virginia] In a PowerPoint presentation Mr. Rove
also uses when soliciting Republican donors, he brought up the Klamath
and made clear that the administration was siding with agricultural interests."
... "His remarks weren't entirely welcome -- especially by officials grappling
with the competing arguments made by environmentalists, who wanted river
levels high to protect endangered salmon, and Indian tribes, who depend
on the salmon for their livelihoods. Neil McCaleb, then an assistant Interior
secretary, recalls the "chilling effect" of Mr. Rove's remarks. Wayne Smith,
then with the department's Bureau of Indian Affairs, says Mr. Rove reminded
the managers of the need to "support our base."" [note: the Hatch Act prohibits
political activities in federal offices.] ... "A National Marine Fisheries
Service biologist, Michael Kelly, has asked for protection under federal
"whistle-blower" laws, saying he was subjected to political pressure to
go along with the low-water plan and ordered to ignore scientific evidence
casting doubt on the plan. This month, a federal judge ruled the administration
violated the Endangered Species Act in the way it justified the water diversion."
-By Tom Hamburger -WallStreetJournal
via -OregonWild.org
ELECTION
2002 News
- "Democrat
retains Louisiana seat." ... "Mary Landrieu held
off Suzanne Haik Terrell, who conceded the election late on Saturday evening."
... "In the new Senate, the Republicans will hold 51 seats to the Democrats
49." -BBC/News
- "Two-term
Democrat is a first in 30 years." ... "Iowa voters
gave Gov. Tom Vilsack a second four-year term Tuesday night, choosing the
Democratic incumbent over Republican candidate Doug Gross." ... "Vilsack,
who became Iowa's first Democratic governor in more than three decades
with his election four years ago, gained a new distinction with his victory
Tuesday night. Eight years at the helm of state government will make him
Iowa's longest-serving Democratic governor. Harold Hughes, the last Democrat
to occupy the governor's office, served six years in the 1960s. Branstad
held office longer than any other Iowa governor: 16 years." ... "Among
the 39 people who have held the governorship since Iowa became a state
in 1846, only nine have been Democrats." -By Jonathan
Roos -DesMoinesRegister/News
- "Media
rely on 'real votes' to project winners." ... "Voter
News Service, the media consortium whose flawed data led to erroneous projections
on Election Night 2000, withheld results from national and state exit polls
Tuesday because it could not guarantee their accuracy." ... "Exit polls
survey voters after they leave polling places. Without them, television
networks had to rely on vote counts to project winners in congressional
and gubernatorial elections." ... "Voter News Service (VNS) said the problems
with the exit polls lay in the software that crunches information from
questionnaires filled out by voters." ... ""If you see a number that looks
suspicious to you, you check it out. If the process is not calculating
every element properly, you have to adjust or you have to fix the program,"
VNS executive director Ted Savaglio said. "We saw things that we didn't
like, and we just didn't feel we could publish the poll."" -By
Martha T. Moore with contributions from Charisse Jones -USATODAY
- "VNS
Abandons National Exit Polls." ... "Voter News Service
was forced to abandon state and national exit polls designed to help analyze
Tuesday's midterm election results and also saw its vote-counting operation
slow to a crawl." ... "The failures were a major setback for VNS - a consortium
consisting of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox and The Associated Press. VNS had
completely rebuilt its system in response to the 2000 election, when television
networks twice used its information to make wrong calls in the decisive
Florida vote for the presidency." ... "VNS said the exit poll information
was being collected but not being properly analyzed by the organization's
new computer system." ... "VNS had other problems: computer screens briefly
froze when workers phoned in exit poll information, and more people than
expected failed to call with completed questionnaires, Savaglio said."
-By David Bauder
-AP via -FindLaw/LegalNews
- "Voting
into the void: New touch-screen voting machines
may look spiffy, but some experts say they can't be trusted." ... "A fast-talking,
fact-toting woman who can recount dozens of stories of voting machines
going disastrously haywire, (computer science professor Rebecca) Mercuri
goes into a region whose election has been held up and proceeds to hold
forth. Mercuri tells everyone she can, from election judges to county supervisors
to the local media, that the supposedly "state-of-the-art" machines they've
all been sold are nothing but a "a bill of goods."" ... "Mercuri's chief
complaint with the touch-screen system is that its inner workings are often
a complete secret. When a voter touches the screen to make a choice, there
is no confirmation that the machine has actually registered the correct
selection. In the old punch-card and fill-in-the-circle paper systems,
voters can see their choice marked on paper. And in the event of a recount,
election officials can, as a last resort, manually count those slips of
paper. Since the new electronic systems leave no paper trail, there's no
chance of a recount." (1, 2,
3)
-By Farhad Manjoo -Salon
OPINION
- "Coping
with Election 2002: The only solution: Hold
your nose, vote and then fight for reform." ... "Campaign 2002 saw some
of the most vitriolic TV ads in recent memory. There was the ad in the
Georgia senatorial race that sought to link war hero Max Cleland, who lost
both legs and an arm in Vietnam, with mass murderers Osama bin Laden and
Saddam Hussein because he had voted against some of President Bush's homeland
security measures. And then there was Texas governor Rick Perry's just-this-side-of-slanderous
attempt to smear his opponent, Tony Sanchez, with the blood of a DEA agent
murdered by Mexican drug lords 17 years ago. "The Justice Department,"
the ad slimed, "said Sanchez had a choice: to cooperate with law enforcement
or the drug dealers. Sanchez chose the drug dealers."" -By
Arianna
Huffington -Salon
- ELECTION
2002 - "Last-minute
push for votes: Analysts blame major parties
for electorate's dissatisfaction." ... "Donald Richter, a retired truck
driver from Milpitas, says he's failed to vote for a candidate only once
in 26 years. This year, he's doing it again in protest." ... "When he marks
the ballot for [California] governor on Tuesday, "I'll vote for Mickey
Mouse," he said, "and hope the major parties get the message."" ... "A
new Field Poll predicts that just 39 percent, or 8.4 million of the state's
21.5 million eligible voters, will cast ballots in California. That's the
lowest number recorded in the 42-year history of the poll." -By
Carla Marinucci -SFGate.com
ELECTION
2002 / AcronymsABCNEWS.com : ABC 2002: Web Watchdog Project - "Watchdog: Campaign Inaccuracies Help Us Help You! ABCNEWS announces an unprecedented effort to truth-squad political communication in 2002." - http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/watchdog.html
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