any ties from John E. O'Neill to bush?

[southernleftylady]

besides that law firm that he knows someone thru?

[actappan]

1. Law Partner of LT Gov Running Mate

O'Neil was the law partner of Tex Lazar, the Republican Candidate for Lt Gov in Texas in '94 - the year W was elected.

Lazar is also the (late) husband of Merrie Spaeth - the media consultant behind SBVT. Lazar died last year.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/05/04/swift/

[papau]

2. Links to data

Disinfopedia
Aug. 2004

John Ellis O'Neill, now a Houston lawyer, is "the guy George W. Bush trotted out to attack John Forbes Kerry's military service, also did Richard M. NIXON's DIRTY anti-Kerry work (in addition to clerking for Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist).

A PARTISAN HACK spanning multiple administrations," according to The Daily Kos blog site. <1> (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/4/22/1551/39504)

The Kos states the obvious that two REPUBLICAN presidents have used O'Neill "to try and discredit Kerry's post-service ANTI-war efforts." <2> (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/4/21/172634/848)

<snip>

The Kos expended great effort to discover who O'Neill is and writes on April 22, 2004 (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/4/22/1551/39504), that "We also found out that he's a partner at the Houston firm of Clements, O'Neill, Pierce, Wilson and Fulkerson. One of his co-partners is Margaret A. Wilson, who was George Bush's general counsel 1998-2000.



"Well, there's more about good ol' Margaret," the Kos continues. "She was a lawyer at Vinson & Elkins before she worked for Bush. Vinson & Elkins was ENRON's main law firm -- the very firm that facilitated ENRON's frauds (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/1538107).
Vinson & Elkins was also the firm that SPAWNED Alberto R. Gonzales -- Bush's current general counsel.
"In other words, Vinson & Elkins and COPWF (http://www.copwf.com/) are the very embodiment of the Houston good ol' boy REPUBLICAN network. That this network spawn Kerry's harshest critic should be of no surprise (his career was probably made thanks to the NIXON DIRTY work). Thus, there should be no illusions that O'Neill is in any way an independent and impartial critic of John Kerry."


The Kos also located the March 31, 2004, Houston Chronicle article "An old Kerry foe, Houston lawyer back in spotlight" (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2476454) by Bennett Roth:



"In 1971, O'Neill squared off against Kerry on the Dick Cavett Show (http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=176287540) in a 90-minute, televised forum in which the two Vietnam War veterans sparred over the U.S. role in Southeast Asia.
"President Nixon and top aide Charles W. Colson had taken a keen interest in O'Neill as part of their effort to discredit Kerry AND the anti-war movement, according to memos and tapes in the National Archives.


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Read this at: http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=John_E._O'Neill

[shawmut]

3. The last link is not working for me

[papau]

4. A better link is below

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=John_E._O'Neill

After you get to error page cut the item below

John_E._O'Neill

into the searcg window and hit "go"

[buycitgo]

8. great stuff....I'd heard about some of that, including the

counsel when he was "gov" and the Nixon bits

but not the Enron and other stuff

I'm getting SO tired of the media NOT letting the public know how completely this shitpocket is tied to the kleptokkkrats stealing our nation before our eyes

again.....the pugs are like sharks: they do what they do, apparently missing the requisite genes governing socializable behaviors, so, on one level you can't really blame them for doing what they're programmed to do

the media, on the other hand, are only too HAPPY to present the blastfaxes, the PR releases, the lunatic fringes on the airwaves, etc., COMPLETELY unalloyed, without context, giving the impression these SOCIOPATHS exist within the normal range of human experience

think I exaggerate?

David Bossie
Ann Coulter
David Horowitz
Ollie North
John Lott
Paul Wolfowitz
Jerry Falwell
Dan Burton
Karl Rove
Karen Hughes
Robert Novak


these people are all seriously and obviously mentally ILL

feel free to add to the list

[AntiCoup2K4]

5. The "E" stands for Ellis

And as I pointed out in another thread, that does make me suspicious. Given that we have Junior's brother, John Ellis Bush as governor of Florida. And cousin John Ellis, who called Florida for Junior as an employee of FAUX News. Could John Ellis O'Neill also be a Bush relative?

Just a hunch, but how many people have the middle name "Ellis"??

[DemBones DemBones]

6. It's very interesting that the "E" in "John E. O'Neill" stands for

"Ellis" as in John Ellis Bush ("JEB") and John Ellis, W's cousin who got FOX to call Florida for W in 2000. . .

As someone else pointed out, "Ellis" isn't known as a common middle name but is obviously a Bush family name.

And this guy is all tied in with other Repubs in Houston. Quite a coincidence.

[southernleftylady]

7. I wonder how we could find that out? nt

[Walt Starr]

9. I wish we could dig further on this

If it turned out the head of the smearboatvets was a relative of the shrub, the campaign would be over.

[buycitgo]

10. yeah, but the financials are interesting, too

just like the plame affair, if a link can be established to the WH, which you KNOW exists, that's a very serious violation of FEC 527 guidelines

is it criminal?

doubt it, but hope so