Reply #6: Thor Hearne, Bucky Bush, and a scrubbed photo

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Here's a snippet of something from Hearne that used to be at the Lathrop & Gage website (but is no more):

I was asked by President Bush’s uncle, Bucky Bush, to be the general counsel to the Bush-Cheney campaign in Missouri in the fall of 2003. (I had worked with the Bush campaign in 2000 and successfully represented the campaign in the City of St. Louis poll closing litigation and in Florida in 2000 in Broward County.) During the Republican National Convention in August 2004, I was asked to be national counsel to the campaign and advise the campaign on not just Missouri legal issues but national legal strategy and election litigation.

Bucky Bush, as all BFEE mavens should remember, is the one who was in the same Yale secret society as Porter Goss and John Negroponte -- there's a group photo including all of them at http://www.infowars.com/articles/occult/uncle_bucky.htm

I've tended to assume Hearne is a lightweight, but this BradBlog item suggests he's been far more significant.

And here's something else interesting: There used to be a photo showing Hearne in the Republican National Lawyer's photo gallery at http://www.rnla.org/PhotoGallery-2.asp -- but now it's not there any more, though you can still see it in the Google cache at http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:x1hdkmFqE7YJ:www.rnla.org/PhotoGallery-2.asp+%22Bush-Cheney+%2704+Inc.+Counsel+Thor+Hearne+(center)&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a. (It doesn't look as though that link is coming up right, but you can get there by googling on the first few words of the caption quoted just below.)

The caption reads "Bush-Cheney '04 Inc. Counsel Thor Hearne (center) with RNLA Members D. Michael Grodhaus, Kurt Tunnell, Bill Todd and Rick Siehl (left to right) at the Ohio RNLA Chapter Reception March 9, 2005."

I googled on all those names a while back. Grodhaus was a top assistant to Ohio Attorney General James Petro (who had questionable involvements in both the 2004 election and the Tom Noe coin scandal.) Tunnell was formerly chief legal council to Governor George Voinovich. Todd represented the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. Siehl was the Ohio state chairman of the RNLA.

A couple of other photos are also gone from the current version of the page -- including one of the aforementioned Jim Petro -- which really makes me wonder if it's been scrubbed and, if so, what about the Hearne picture was considered potentially embarrassing.