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Citing e-mails using RNC HQ e-mail accounts rather than WH accounts from Susan Rollins, former Rove-widget (but aren't they all, all Rove-widgets, as we are finding out in the DOJ "priorities" scandal?), Rep. Waxman sends a letter to the WH counsel to preserve what appears to be a run-around of the records keeping requirements.
In testimony this week, it becomes apparent that Rove's enthusiastic, in-house partisanship has torpedoed the Administrator of the GSA, Lurita Doan. (The GSA attempts to consolidate the buying power of the US Gov't, in order to improve contract terms with vendors.) Impressive by the numbers, Ms. Doan's leadership has brought good things for "small government" freaks, but at a great cost. We ought to turn to some Democratic talent, in order to have benefits without costs ...
Apparently, the quite affable Ms. Doan got caught up in the WH's conducting a meeting via Rove's staff, that is being investigated for a Hatch Act violation in spades, in which appointee staffers were treated in January to an eye-popping presentation on "us" and "our" GOP strategy for upcoming, 2008 elections, complete with lists of weak, "target" Democrats. [Whether this presentation was given to a slew of government agencies is yet unknown to the public.]
Her business sense, much needed in government administration, sadly got her at odds with the bureaucracy, in ways she might have avoided. In a short timeframe, she appears to have been somewhat involved in pushing forward contract candidates (Sun Networks and a friend) that might have made sense from a personal or political perspective (Sun apparently has ties to GOP boosters), and perhaps even with some business justification, but without a sense of the perils of forcing a system, rather than coaxing it.
