Greg Palast has an interesting item up which relates to the “gwb43.com” and “RNCHQ.com” etc. emails. This is in the “etc.com” file, specifically the address “GeorgeWBush.com”.
Remember a wee kerfluffle in the runup to the ’04 elections, specifically Florida which we were keeping an eye on for some reason? Some nobody on the RNC hit team got caught making the boneheaded mistake of sending his mail to “GeorgeWBush.org” instead of “.com.” Well as it happens “GeorgeWBush.org” was a spoof site set up by a fellow named John Wooden for purposes of various rudenesses.
The story at the time was that the RNC was trying to suppress the votes of various groups of people, notably including the homeless as well as members of the military who might happen to be Soldiering While Black. That story ran its course, the nobody who made the slipup was quickly forgotten, and we Got Over It.
Ya know who that nobody turns out to be? Then—Timothy Griffin, Karl Rove’s assistant. Now- United States Attorney Timothy Griffin, the President’s Karl Rove’s personal pick as US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
Isn’t it nice to see a misguided young fellow make a felony-level criminal mistake (attempted vote suppression for reasons of race is a Federal crime Tim ol’ buddy, as I’m sure anyone qualified to be US Attorney already knows) then turn his life around, go good and make something of himself?
Palast regrettably doesn’t tie his story in to the bigger tale of the email. But that’s what they were doing with those GovTech/SmartTech/Coptix -hosted addresses back then. Then I’m sure it was all campaign related stuff, and neither Mr. Rove nor Mr. Griffin was being paid by US taxpayers to do government type work. They were, I’m quite sure, being paid to work full time for a political party to do legitimate political work.
er…werent’ they?
Otherwise Rep. Waxman might want to add “georgewbush.com” to the list of addresses the emails of which are to be produced for his committee, toot sweet. What’s the statute of limitations on voter fraud anyway? Isn’t it voter fraud to keep a legitimate holder of the sovereign franchise from exercising same?
We can’t have voter fraud in this country, dammit. Some US Attorney will come down hard on your ass if you try anything like that.
(Alas, the GeorgeWBush.org website, while still there, is presently hosting only a marquee page claiming it is the future home of the “George W. Bush Presidential Library”. It’s worth a hit for a giggle at Preznit Codpiece in his famous flightsuit but lamentably seems to contain no way to contact Mr. Wooden to see if he hung on to those old pages of notes. Alas.)
Front page
Follow the Chattanooga road
it starts with NextLec, a company owned by Bush-Cheney 04 National finance chair Mercer Reynolds “the 3rd”, a Chattanooga native who worked from the RNC DC offices during the 04 campaign. google him! google NextLec! they merged with Smartech! In 2000 they hosted the Bush-Cheney web-site from Chattanooga, it was HACKED! Now, our friend the Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Rove, and his staff, seems they have security clearances and deal with classified info and documents. According to a National Journal story last Friday, they do 95% of their communicating thru these outside Chattanooga systems. See any security problems there? And this from the people that have gotten elected on the platform to keep us safe!
But Not That John Wooden
We should probably add a disclaimer, which this comment can stand for, that the John Wooden referred to in this story is not the legendary UCLA basketball coach who won ten consecutive national titles, a record THAT WILL NEVER BE REPLICATED.
Knew that name rang a bell
for some reason. Paying little or no attention to
semi-procollege sports as I do I thought the basketball Wooden was dead. Turns out he’s not, although seeing as he is listed as “b. 1910” I trust I may be forgiven this assumption. :)Anyway, given what the Wiki entry says about the basketball Wooden, I don’t think anybody’s likely to confuse him with the Wooden who says rude things about a Republican.
That Org? presinential LieBury
… is something that a lot of really quite respectable faculty at SMU are fighting against hosting. It comes attached to a ’Think’ Tank that will no doubt provide an income for all sorts of scholars of the ilk of Pepperdine, now sponsoring a certain Herr Starr - who is trying to overturn Sarbanes-Oxley. These types are trying to perpetuate themselves and are much more active than Giant Bunnies.
Ruth
It's gonna have to filter up
See it’s more than just one RNC group who happens to have a mail address and maybe a webpage. Now NextLEC is a red herring, as it was too long ago (relatively) and went bankrupt, but out of the ashes we reborn a whole slew of “creative” enterprises geared towards ratfucking ’merica. One has a bank of servers in an old Bank basement, and then there are others for instance, teaming up with “polling data and live election results”.. Oh joy.. And it’s all basically happening not only by a cadre of Sleestaks in Chattavegas, but actually in the same room on a bank of servers.
Voter fraud will be hard to prove, but certainly I would start warming up the special prosecutors to look into it. Then we’ll see how much the roly-poly-goatees are laughing.
"Live election results"
You are absolutely right to have your hair on fire about this, intranets.
The results of the last Mexican election give us a taste… Not to mention Ohio 2004 and Floria 2000.
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.