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[AnIndependentTexan]

This was posted at democratic underground
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Career: In the years of the Watergage scandal, Rove's career as a big-time political handler began with a motley crew of friends and associates. He was chairman of the College Republicans when George Herbert Walker Bush was chairman of the state Republican Party in 1973. He won the presidency of the College Republicans in a race against Terry Dolan. The late Lee Atwater, who later became famous as the political attack dog for the Reagan-Bush team, managed Rove's campaign. Dolan went on to become a Soft Money pioneer by helping form the National Conservative Political Action Committee, then died of AIDS in 1986 at age 36. Dolan's advisers in his loss to Rove were Charlie Black, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. Those three were later instrumental in the success of Ronald Reagan's 1984 campaign.

Atwater joined the consulting firm of Black, Manafort and Stone after the '84 election. The firm later worked for the 1988 Bush-Quayle campaign. Two of Nixon's dirty tricksters also worked for Bush-Quayle: Frederick Malek, Bush's Republican National Committee rep, who had compiled lists of Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics as part of Nixon's investigation of a "Jewish Cabal;" and Dwight Chapin, who was jailed for lying to a grand jury about hiring Donald Sigretti to disrupt the 1972 Democratic primary campaign of Senator Edward Muskie. Chapin worked under Manafort in 1988. The firm's other clients included drug-connected Bahamian Prime Minister Oscar Pindling, Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and UNITA, the South African-supported Angolan rebel group led by CIA asset Jonas Savimbi. Lee Atwater lobbied for UNITA. All of which began when Atwater was introduced to George Bush in 1973, by his good friend Karl Rove.

http://www.famoustexans.com/karlrove.htm


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This is something I've been looking for -- a concise history of the rise of the New Right and the role of all those shadowy figures like Richard Mellon Scaife, who was behind the attempt to destroy Clinton and seems linked to all the dirty-tricksters in the current campaign.

http://www.audarya-fellowship.com/showflat/cat/WorldNew...

The term 'New Right' was coined by Kevin Phillips in 1975 and refers to the amalgam of organisations and institutes spawned by Richard A. Viguerie, Paul Weyrich, Howard Phillips and John Terry Dolan with heavy funding from such financial magnates as Joseph Coors, Nelson Bunker Hunt and Richard Mellon Scaife. ... In 1973 Coors, with the help and advice of Paul Weyrich, a broadcast journalist by profession and not the mere 'political mechanic' he pretended to be, and Edwin Feulner, another Congressional aide, founded the Heritage Foundation.

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Perhaps the most important constituent body of the New Right network after the Heritage Foundation is the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), also founded in 1975 by John Terry Dolan, a lawyer by profession, Charles Black and Roger Stone with the help of Richard Viguerie.

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Ronald Reagan's election as President of the US marked an important historic divide in the rise and development of the New Right and its religious component. Once inside the White House, the President, contrary to envisaged plans for its abolition, decided to retain the post of special religious advisor. In the face of firm opposition from the mainline denominations, he appointed Morton C. Blackwell, founder of the ultra-conservative Committee for Responsible Youth Politics and ex-editor of the RAVCO-owned New Right Report still with strong political and financial ties to Viguerie, to the post.

"Ain't nobody here but us chickens."

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Googling the National Conservative Political Action Committee, of which Stone was a co-founder in 1975, leads directly to L. Brent Bozell, who was at some point NCPAC's president and chairman of the board.

Bozell, of course, has been deeply implicated in this whole memoes flap. It was his Cybercast News Service that was instrumental in moving the forgery claim from the blogs to mainstream news sources.

For a summary on Bozell, see http://www.cephasministry.com/church_and_state_cornweb_...
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http://www.democrats.org/news/200408310013.html

Blackwell Trained Karl Rove. Morton Blackwell, a former national executive director of the College Republicans, trained a teen-aged Karl Rove as a field organizer, and taught him "people in politics should pay less attention to consultants, television advertising, polls, and 'message,' and more attention to the old-fashioned side of the business: registering voters, organizing volunteers, making face-to-face contact during the last days of a campaign, and getting people to the polls on Election Day."

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Rove Consults With Blackwell on Political Strategy. At the 2000 convention, Bush strategist Karl Rove consulted with Morton Blackwell of Virginia, who supported a plan that emphasized primaries in small states when the Republican Party selects its presidential nominee.

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Blackwell "Trained More Political Activists Than Any Other Conservative." According to the biography on the leadership Institute website, Blackwell "has probably trained more political activists than any other conservative. Starting in the 1960's, he has trained thousands of people who have served on staff for Republican candidates in every state." <http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/01ABOUTUS/02MCBlackw... >
----------------------------------------------------------------------As always, LaRouche material should not be taken as reliable unless it checks out elsewhere, since they often make wild charges without offering documentation. And the gratuitous anti-gay and anti-Semitic comments in this piece are particularly unsavory. That said, the connections indicated here would be of interest if they prove true:

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3108sharpton.html

Roy Cohn, Mafia mouthpiece, murder conspirator for the ultra-right, and Sen. Joe McCarthy's counsel, kept a framed copy of the New York Post from Oct. 17, 1980, endorsing Ronald Reagan for President, inscribed "To Roy Cohn with deepest appreciation and gratitude for all you've done, your protégé and friend, Roger Stone." When Cohn, a gay-basher, was dying of sodomy-induced AIDS, Stone was the toastmaster at his loving mentor's last big event.

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In 1975, Stone founded the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) with Charles Black—who would become his permanent political partner—and Terry Dolan, an AIDS-stricken homosexual and radical "family values" right-winger. The main money for NCPAC came from North Carolina racist millionaire Tom Ellis—a promoter of Nazi eugenics—who ran the whole career of Senator Jesse Helms. Ellis brought in the new dirty-tricks consulting firm of Black, Manafort and Stone to run all Helms campaigns. Roy Cohn personally arranged for Jewish millionaires to stop contributing to Helms's opponents, in exchange for Helms changing his politics to support the extreme rightist Likud Party of Israel. Meanwhile NCPAC raised funds from conservatives for Oliver North's Central-American Contras, attempting to cover over the actual financing from narcotics trafficking.

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As Black's partner, Roger Stone soon became the permanent strategist for billionaire casino owner Donald Trump, who inherited some of the old Meyer Lansky properties. Stone built up his own interests in the organized-crime-dominated casino world, while acting as political director for the national Republican Party apparatus. In 1982, Stone managed the Senate campaign of Prescott Bush, Jr. (uncle to the current President), using NCPAC funds. To help in that failed Bush race, and for a Helms campaign, Stone and Black hired Roy Cohn protégé Dick Morris, who would later advise and betray President Bill Clinton
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http://www.salon.com/news/news960812.html

"One of Tim Carey's comrades in the State Street Gang, Frank Trotta, attended a Republican camp for New Yorkers as a teenager. His counselors included Roger Stone, who would later hold leadership positions in the Reagan and Bush campaigns, and Terry Dolan, who later became the director of the National Conservative Political Action Committee."


http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_25_5...

"It's not that Stone is ignorant of politics. In fact, he loved politics from a very early age. He says he read Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative when he was twelve. Even as an adolescent, he spent every free minute working on Republican campaigns in Connecticut and New York with his close friend, the late Republican operative Terry Dolan.

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"Throughout the 1970s, Stone was a committed Republican, and a fairly conservative one. When he married in 1974, he and his wife honeymooned at a GOP camp for teens where they were counselors."


This second article, which originally appeared in National Review, has some additional interesting tidbits on Stone, such as this one:

"In 1986, he made the mistake of calling Vice President Bush a 'weenie' in Time magazine-a snub that has made it difficult for him in presidential-level GOP circles ever since."
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http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000857.html

But the Reagan administration, by all accounts, engineered the political leadership of the Contras, falling in love with a series of counterrevolutionaries who broke down under the weight of their own deficiencies.

One such leader was Adolfo Calero, who became Washington's Contra of choice in the mid-'80s. After graduating from Notre Dame, Calero had gone on to run Managua's Coca-Cola bottling plant. Despite ruling-class ties, Calero lambasted the Somoza dictatorship for its shabby economic management. He convinced his fellow businessmen to go on strike against the regime and helped launch the Authentic Conservative Party. All this right-wing activism meant that, when the Sadinisitas seized power, he ultimately had little choice but to take up a life of exile in Miami. It also made him an easy sell to American conservatives, a pitch enhanced by Calero's alliance with Republican consultant Roger Stone, from unita's lobbying firm. In direct-mail solicitations, Stone compared Calero to Washington at Valley Forge. Calero also expertly saddled up to the conservative bar. He became a fixture at Heritage and hit the campaign trail for favorite candidates. At the 1987 North Carolina Republican convention, he joined Jesse Helms on the dais. "Nicaragua is way below the Mason-Dixon line," he bellowed. "That makes me a rebel like you."
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I've plowed through a lot of material on the New Right, and there seem to be at least two major groups involved here. The one to which MacDougald and Bozell belong tends to be southern, culturally conservative, often racist, rabidly anti-Clinton, and funded by Scaife.

The other, to which Stone and Blackwell and Rove belong, and which comes out of the various Young Republican and College Republican groups of the 60's, is more northern, libertarian, given to Nixonian dirty tricks, and funded, I think, by Viguerie and Weyrich.

This doesn't mean that MacDougald and Stone couldn't have been part of the same operation. Both groups are, after all, dedicated to promoting the campaign of George W. But it does suggest that we'e unlikely to find any direct connection between them. They just don't hang out in the same circles.

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http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0416/barrett.php

This is a different piece from the Village Voice article about Stone's Sharpton connection which was referenced above. It's full of fascinating details about Stone's Byzantine relationships with multiple Indian tribes and gaming interests, as well as on his connections with the White House.

Whether Stone turns out to be the source of the memoes or not, researching him has certainly turned up a lot of amazing information about how business is done on the wild side of the New Right.

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Hmmm... someone here has floated the name Armando Guiterrez, as the husband of Lucy Ramirez, the supposed source of Burkett's documents. Guiterrez, is 1) a member of the GOP riot at Palm Beach election offices. 2) Family spokesperson for the Elian Gonzalez debacle. 3) Paid aid to a judge, King, in Miami 4) Known in GOP and Cuban/American circles as someone who can make any opponent "disappear". Tell me.. WHAT is up with Florida??? WHY do so many unsavory GOP things seem to start and end there???

Wonder if anyone can confirm a link to this guy and the memos, or if the Lucy Ramirez/Armando Guiterrez thing is a goose chase. Interesting, though... Roger Stone's ex-wife owns a graphics company, through which Stone has run quite a few operations in the past few years...

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Enter Indian Country Today’s source, a Democratic political campaign operative who divulged to Indian Country Today that he did in fact turn the materials over to Time, stating that he acted after receiving information from Roger Stone, a confirmed one-time operative for Atlantic City Casino mogul Donald Trump.

Through a letter sent to Indian Country Today by his attorney, Stone has disputed the claim that he instigated the Time magazine story. "Mr. Stone believes that an individual by the name of Mike Copperthite is claiming to have provided the information to Time magazine at Mr. Stone’s instigation." The statement says this claim is "false in all respects."

http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?articl...

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=artic...

But the committee's real organizer, the election commission said, was veteran GOP political consultant Roger Stone, who has been involved in major campaigns dating to Richard M. Nixon's administration. The election commission wanted to question Stone, who owns a home in Florida, but it couldn't locate him to serve a subpoena.

In a recent report on the matter, the commission says Stone persuaded McCarty to head the committee and that he supplied $150,000 from undisclosed sources. The group mailed letters to 350,000 Republican voters asking for money to send "a clear message to the Florida Supreme Court that we will not tolerate their efforts to highjack the presidential election for Al Gore."

The Florida Elections Commission concluded that McCarty violated several state election laws, including accepting contributions exceeding the $500 state limit and filing an inaccurate disclosure report. McCarty has sued in federal court, seeking to block the commission proceedings. She told the Associated Press: "I didn't do any of this except sign my name. . . . This was basically some sort of a scam that was set up that I was used in. I was duped."

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/p...

"Burkett told USA TODAY that he had agreed to turn over the documents to CBS if the network would arrange a conversation with the Kerry campaign.

"The network's effort to place Burkett in contact with a top Democratic official raises ethical questions about CBS' handling of material potentially damaging to the Republican president in the midst of an election. This "poses a real danger to the potential credibility ... of a news organization," said Aly Colón, a news ethicist at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies."

----------------------------------------------------------------------This is a 2004 story about how Roger Stone spread malicious stories about Pat Buchanan, helped break up the Reform Party, and open the door to its nomination of Ralph Nader.

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0420/barrett.php

Excerpt:

"Pat Buchanan ... seized control of the most successful third party in half a century, the Reform Party, whose founder, Ross Perot, cost Bush I the presidency in 1992. Once Buchanan became the party's presidential nominee, he mysteriously disappeared, getting 2.4 million votes less than Ralph Nader, 80,000 less in Florida alone. The Buchanan saga remains important not only because it reveals the seamy underside of Bush II's ascent to power, but because it shows how the GOP virtually eliminated a national centrist party that could've altered the 2004 race.

Alive now in only seven states, the party's remnants just offered their ballot line to Nader, which could also wind up benefiting Bush. The saga begins with a baby, allegedly born more than four decades ago. Incredibly, just as Bush backers in 2000 used an illegitimate-child scandal in South Carolina to smear John McCain, longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative Roger Stone was simultaneously using just such a scandal to undermine Buchanan."


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Dole aide denies sex allegations
By The Associated Press


NEW YORK -- Now it's the Republicans' turn to see one of their own in a tabloid sex tale.

Roger Stone, a volunteer adviser with Bob Dole's presidential campaign and onetime chairman for Sen. Arlen Specter's short-lived White House bid, yesterday denied allegations that he visited a sex club with his wife and placed X-rated ads on the Internet and in magazines.

The allegations appear in the New York Post, which cited upcoming editions of the supermarket tabloids National Enquirer and Star.

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The Post quoted Mr. Stone as conceding that the bills for the postings on the Internet site were paid for with his credit card. He told the newspaper the post office box number listed on the Internet site belonged to him, but had been improperly obtained.

In June, Mr. Stone was named to the Dole campaign's "Clinton Accountability Team" of surrogates to help make Mr. Dole's case against the Democratic incumbent.



http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/09-96/09-13-96/a04...
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but I thought his wife's name was Nikki. Some one should dig up that old Enquirer story about their spouse swapping adventures. It happened while he was working on the Dole campaing.

"Roger Stone, a millionaire political consultant who began his career as a 19-year-old Watergate dirty trickster, virtually took over the Sharpton campaign in the last quarter of 2003, according to reports in the New York Times (January 25), Salon.com ("A GOP Trickster Rents Sharpton," February 3) and New York’s Village Voice ("Sleeping with the GOP," February 3). ...Roger Stone is the Hard Right storm trooper whose goons bum-rushed the Miami-Dade elections offices in 2000, shutting down the recount and setting the stage for George Bush’s "selection."

http://www.legitgov.org/shortnews_0204.html
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The last one I believe is the smoke and gun Read it carefully.

[fdr_hst_fan]

1. Thanx, dude!

Most enlightening; have emailed it to a friend-I KNOW he'll enjoy it!

[qanda]

2. Kick

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[qanda]

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[Eloriel]

4. Looks like this

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[dmr]

5. Great research!

AIndependentTexan, you've given me much more to read!

This deserves a gigantic kick so others may see it too! Thanks!