Laura Bush lends support to GOP leader in Foley scandal

[Rose Siding]

GREECE, N.Y. -- For a second time this month, first lady Laura Bush traveled Saturday to upstate New York to drum up support for House GOP campaign chief Tom Reynolds, whose once-safe district looks vulnerable in the upcoming election.

"Go to the phone banks, knock on those doors and talk to your friends and neighbors ... about all of New York's great Republicans," Mrs. Bush, flanked by Reynolds and fellow U.S. Rep. Randy Kuhl, told several hundred Republican faithful in suburban Rochester.

...(S)tate Republican chairman Steve Minarik issued a "don't let them steal our Congress" rallying cry. But Bliss acknowledged that Reynolds' fate is uncertain. "It seems like it's 50-50," he said.
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Reynolds and Kuhl "appreciate our troops' sacrifice" in Iraq, (Mrs. Bush) said. "They understand that this election is critical to the future of our country."

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