Fox News analyst and non-graduating University of Utah student Karl Rove is back in the state. The Texas Democratic Party is calling his trip the Fugitive Fundraising Tour, since the former White House Deputy Chief of Staff blew off a congressional subpeona to beg cash for Republican campaigns. Because that’s what Fox means when they say “Fair and Balanced.”
Today Rove (who the Democrats delighted in calling “a fugitive from a Congressional subpoena” in their press release) will be up in Dallas trying to get people to dig deep in their pockets for Rep. Tony Goolsby, R-Dallas. (Goolsby faces a challenge from Democrat Carol Kent who, although the Republican incumbent has a bigger war chest, actually outraised him 3-1 in the last six months.) Is it some big public event? Nope, it’s an invite-only deal in the house of real estate mogul Harlan Crow (who also happens to have donated a wad of cash to the George Herbert Walker Bush Presidential Library and the Kerry-mauling Swift Boat Vets campaign).
No surprise that one historic Bushie is hanging around with another historic Bushie: that’s who he has known all his adult life. John Dean told Salon that the Watergate special prosecutors were looking into Rove’s dirty tricks campaigns back in 1973 – around the time he was installed by then-RNC chairman George H.W. Bush as chairman of the College Republican National Committee.
This article appears in August 8 • 2008.
