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"Gannon" scandal leads to link between high-level Republicans, high-level Democrats

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 16 February 2005
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Related: Democratic Senators reportedly getting cold feet on investigating Gannon/Plame link.

"Gannon" scandal leads to link between high-level Republicans, high-level Democrats

by Carol Rawle, Unknown News

Over the weekend, while pursuing information that might lead to uncovering connections between the Bush White House and the ’non-reporter’ Jeff Gannon, aka James Guckert, a blogger may have stumbled onto information that could begin to uncover a possible alliance between the Republican and Democratic leadership.

On Saturday, Feb. 12, a blogger, going by the screen-name "Do You Ever Wonder", posted the first of his discoveries as a thread on Democratic Underground.com.

The evidence shows that John Kerry had hired the Washington lobbying firm Quinn Gillespie & Associates to do work for his 2004 campaign. The firm’s two founding partners are each political heavy-hitters, Jack Quinn for the Democratic Party and Ed Gillespie as 2004 Republican National Committee chairman.

From information gleaned from the firm’s web site, it was learned that Marc Lampkin, a Quinn Gillespie lobbyist, was a Bush campaign manager, while another employee of the firm, Bruce Andrews, was political director for the Kerry/Edwards coordinating committee in Pennsylvania. Yet another employee, Manuel Ortiz, was involved in the overall leadership structure of the Democratic Party, including both policy and fundraising, raising money for Kerry.

A large, influential public relations firm such as this might normally have clients of all political persuasions, and were it not a presidential election year, it would raise nary an eyebrow. However, for the chair of the Republican National Committee (even though Gillespie officially took "unpaid leave" from his firm to work on Bush’s 2004 campaign) to be just one degree removed from the Kerry campaign, casts a shadow of suspicion regarding possible collusion between the Democratic and Republican parties. At the very least, it represents an obvious conflict of interest.

For those of us who find the entire manner in which the Kerry campaign was conducted "odd", including Kerry’s abrupt concession, this is simply more evidence to support the suspicion that Kerry threw the 2004 election.


Quinn Gillespie
& Associates


Jack Quinn


... Before co-founding Quinn Gillespie & Associates, Mr. Quinn ... served as Counsel to the President of the United States [Bill Clinton] from November 1995 to February 1997. At the time of his appointment by President Clinton, he was Vice President Goreâ??s Chief-of-Staff and Counselor, a position he undertook in June 1993. Between January 1993 and May of that year, Mr. Quinn was the Vice Presidentâ??s Counsel and deputy Chief-of-Staff. ...

Ed Gillespie


... Gillespie is one of the most prominent and successful strategists in the Republican Party. In 2002, he was general strategist for Elizabeth Doleâ??s senate campaign in North Carolina, in which Dole garnered the biggest margin of victory of any Senate candidate in the state in over 25 years. Dole and former Clinton chief-of-staff Erskine Bowles combined to wage the most expensive senate race in the country last year, and the Dole campaign has been cited by numerous political analysts as one of the best of the election cycle. ...

http://www.unknownnews.org/0502150214BushKerry2004.html

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  • for all the "americans" who stand for....what do we stand for again?

    http://www.ericblumrich.com/gta.html

    • Hey! ChoicePoint purged the Florida Voter Lists! AND they just "accidently" leaked personal info to fake companies? Yeah, right!

  • What’s the deal with Clinton. I thought he was a good guy, and here he is playing patsie with Pappy Bush? Why isn’t he speaking out about what Jr. is doing to our country?

  • DON’T FORGET THE:
    The Franklin Coverup Scandal

    The Child sex ring that reached Bush/Reagan Whitehouse

    religious leaders and Washington politicians who flew children to Washington D.C. for sex orgies.

    This was the biggest scandal in the history of the U.S.A history. The story received some newspaper coverage but there was a TV News Media blackout on the subject. For this reason, most Americans have never heard of it.

    http://www.thelawparty.com/FranklinCoverup/franklin.htm

    • Oh, your talking about the documentary that was made and never aired, "conspiracy of silence", they purchased the video for millions and it never aired...but oops, here’s that video for all to see.

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      WATCH THE VIDEO

      http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/03/47228.shtml

      How’s that for a kick in the stomach. Land of the greed, home of the slaves. Society gets the government it deserves. How can anyone be proud of silence and cowardice, because that is what America is. No wonder they call us stupid americans and no wonder they call us fascists, because we are.

      Maybe you can understand the parallels between reichstag and 9/11 now. Failure to speak now, will only send us further down the hole...god bless america...yeah right.

    • Let’s not forget them in the name of justice. Just found out about this yesterday, and I am hurt. My tax dollars. Don’t forget Scalia, Cheny’s good friend recommended orgies to a group of college students as a way of letting off steam.

    • In reply to let’s not forget the Franklin Coverup Scandal. I just found out about this sad part of American history. My tax dollars were paying for torture. Let’s not forget that Dick Cheney’s good friend Anthony Scalia recommended orgies to a group of college students. How about the sadistic homo-erotic nature of the torture at American death camps. Rumsfield micromanages this war, isgoring seasoned military.If I am repeating, I am sorry..new to blogging.

  • connections:

    http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush_child_sex_coverup/franklin.htm
    http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush_child_sex_coverup/article_archive.htm

    Links to the "Conspiracy of Silence" video:

    http://www.nogw.com/download/conspiracyofsilence2.wmv
    http://www.rense.com/1.imagesG/conspiracyofsilence2.wmv

    http://abettercarpetcleaner.com/MediaPlayer/FranklinCoverup/conspiracyofsilence2_chunk_1.wmv
    http://abettercarpetcleaner.com/MediaPlayer/FranklinCoverup/conspiracyofsilence2_chunk_2.wmv
    http://abettercarpetcleaner.com/MediaPlayer/FranklinCoverup/conspiracyofsilence2_chunk_3.wmv
    http://abettercarpetcleaner.com/MediaPlayer/FranklinCoverup/conspiracyofsilence2_chunk_4.wmv

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v4/sub/MarketingPage...

    http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php...

    Randi Rhodes Show:

    "A caller to the Randi Rhodes show this afternoon recounted that Gonzales was his sergeant during the "this is what will happen to you if you are taken prisoner" training at the Air Force Academy. Said Gonzales dropped out after two years there (any longer ... and he would have actually had to serve real time in the military).
    He said Sgt Gonzales was a real SOB disliked by all, and expressed the opinion that the methods used at Gitmo and AG sounded quite a lot like what AFA students were taught to expect in the way of torture at the hands of enemies. RR later confirmed that Gonzales had indeed been at the Academy, and was a Sgt in charge of that training. So he had far more first hand experience of the subject than I would otherwise have expected given his educational background as extrapolated from institutions he graduated from. I sure wish someone had had the chance to ask him about those years at the Air Force Academy."
    ( http://dailykos.com/story/2005/2/2/9383/04499)

  • Woman Who Filed Rape Charges Against George W. Bush Found Dead From Gunshot To Her Head
    A Fort Bend County woman files a lawsuit on former Governor and current sitting President George W. Bush.

    Margie Schoedinger of Missouri City, Texas has filed a lawsuit against George W. Bush in Fort Bend County Court. In her suit she is alleging "race based harassment and individual sex crimes committed against her and her husband." The suit lists numerous offenses and asks for actual damages, punitive damages and judgments against George W. Bush.

    In her suit, among the many allegations, she has stated, "On or about, October 26, 2000, an attempt was made to abduct Plaintiff (Schoedinger) by three unknown assailants. Because of the actions of these assailants, Sugar Land police officers were dispatched to the scene. In the end, no report was taken. The assailants were treated respectfully and allowed to go free while Plaintiff (Schoedinger) was repeatedly and aggressively questioned. After filing a lawsuit, the Plaintiff’s family and past contacts were questioned and harassed." As a result, Plaintiff dismissed Plaintiff’s lawsuit. Irrespective of Plaintiff dismissing the lawsuit, the harassment continued." Schoedinger, goes on to allege "at some point, she contacted the Houston office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, filing a raced based harassment complaint, advising that the Sugar Land Police Department may or may not be harassing Plaintiff on behalf of her neighbors in Sugar Land or possibly on behalf of the First Colony Community Services Association."

    Schoedinger further states in her lawsuit, "The (FBI) agent in question advised her that the situation appeared to be highly organized and most likely higher level, such as a racist organization." Furthermore she states, "Throughout this conversation, she learned that there was no time that the Defendant (Bush) ever stopped watching Plaintiff’, nor did he stop having sex with Plaintiff. The sole concern of the Defendant and his representatives was whether Plaintiff could actually recall whether Plaintiff could actually recall, the individual sex crimes committed against Plaintiff and Plaintiff’s husband, utilizing drugs.

    Section VII of the lawsuit states; "Whether or not Plaintiff’s husband was raped remains in question, as Plaintiff was drugged after she was raped and her husband was drugged before her rape. Plaintiff can only state that these men purported to be FBI agents raping her for the purpose of covering for how many times they had drugged her and allowed the Defendant to rape her in the same manner."

    She also alleges that in writing letters directly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Houston Office," instead of assisting Plaintiff with her concerns, the FBI took on the same demeanor as the Sugar Land Police Department. Eventually, Plaintiff learned, via telephone conversations, that both the Sugar Land Police Department, and the Houston Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were acting at the behest of the Defendant, George W. Bush. As a part of their defense, the Sugar Land Police Department conducted a background investigation into Plaintiff’s past activities. In the end, this investigation yielded the following information: Plaintiff had seven dates, (which became seven lovers), had told no lies, committed no crimes, gotten 2 traffic tickets and dated George W. Bush as a minor."

    Sugar Land Police Department Captain Marcaurele said his department has no record of any complaints by Ms. Margie Schoedinger. Several attempts were made to contact Ms Schoedinger, she never returned any calls.

    Ms. Schoedinger’s law suit was filed on December 2, 2002 and is currently in the Fort Bend County system in County Civil Court at Law 3. Schoedinger is listed as her own legal representative.
    Woman Files Lawsuit Against President

    By LeaAnne Klentzman
    The Fort Bend Star
    12-13-02
    Background
    Early one Saturday afternoon in July 2003, I made a simple phone call to Margie Schoedinger, a Texas woman who filed a rape lawsuit against George W. Bush in December 2002. I expected to leave a message on a machine, so I was caught a little offguard when Schoedinger answered.

    She, too, sounded somewhat surprised I had called, saying she hadn’t heard from many other reporters. But she talked to me for a few minutes about the legal action.

    "I am still trying to prosecute [the lawsuit]," said Schoedinger, a 38-year-old African-American woman who lived in the Houston suburb of Missouri City. "I want to get this matter settled and go on with my life."
    Well, Schoedinger hasn’t gone on with her life. In fact, three months after I spoke to her, she died in an apparent suicide. And this matter remains unsettled.

    When I asked her in July 2003 about the lack of media coverage, Schoedinger said she wasn’t seeking publicity. She said she did not even know about a December 2002 article in the Fort Bend Star, the only U.S. mainstream media outlet that covered this story, to my knowledge. The Fort Bend reporter, LeaAnne Klentzman, said she even went to Schoedinger’s home and talked to a man there, who said she could not come to door. While I reached and spoke to Schoedinger on my first attempt, maybe she wasn’t ready to talk back in December.

    Anyways, Schoedinger said she was surprised the case wasn’t covered more because "it is true......People have to be accountable for what they do, and that’s why I’m pursuing it."

    To be sure, Schoedinger’s accusations - which include being drugged and sexually assaulted numerous times by Bush and other men purporting to be FBI agents - are bizarre and hard for most people to believe. But her story fits in with those told by a growing number of people who say they were used as guinea pigs or whatever by members of the CIA or another U.S. agency who wanted to test out the latest mind-controlling drug or just have a strange form of release. And her death - let’s just say government agents have made murders look like suicides before.

    In her court petition, Schoedinger said police in Sugar Land, another Houston suburb where she said some assailants linked to Bush attempted to unsuccessfully abduct her from her car shortly before the 2000 election, refused to take a report or do anything about that incident. She filed a lawsuit against the Sugar Land department and said that in preparing its defense, Sugar Land police found out that she dated Bush as a minor. I didn’t get a chance to ask Schoedinger about that tie and didn’t meet her in person, but her driver’s license listed her as being 5-foot-8 and weighing 125 pounds, for what that’s worth.

    The Fort Bend Star story quoted a Sugar Land police captain saying his department had no record of any complaints by Schoedinger. All he had to do was what I did - go to the Fort Bend County Internet site and do a simple search on Schoedinger’s name in the area of civil court records. I found the lawsuit Schoedinger filed in December 2000 against Sugar Land police, and it even had numerous responses by the department’s attorneys in that case.

    Just wait. This story gets stranger.

    When I started asking Schoedinger about certain details of the case, such as alleged surveillance at her home and if she was still legally representing herself, she politely ended our conversation. "I need to see what has been written," Schoedinger said. "I feel like it’s best for me to end our conversation."

    Obviously, she had learned to be careful about what she said and to whom she said it. I could understand her being leery about talking about her situation with a stranger over the phone.

    But I remember being puzzled by Schoedinger’s attitude after hanging up the phone. I wondered that if she had made up such a wild story, why she didn’t come up with something a little less outlandish, in which people couldn’t necessarily dismiss her as a kook. I wondered why she didn’t seek publicity to at least provide some form of protection. I’ve long learned that being as public as possible is one of your best defenses against rogue intelligence agents. But she didn’t even seem to want any media to cover her story. I told several writers I knew, some of whom tried to contact Schoedinger. None succeeded, as far as I know.

    I remember thinking, "I hope she doesn’t wind up on the wrong side of a gun." And sure enough, in late September, Schoedinger did.

    The Houston Chronicle wrote a bare-bones obituary that stated only that Schoedinger "expired" on Sept. 22, 2003, and her burial was at Houston Memorial Gardens.

    I called the Harris County Medical Examiner’s office, and a clerk told me the cause of death: a "suicide" by a "gunshot wound to the head." I hung up amid bombs going off in my mind.

    For one, using a gun to commit suicide is predominantly executed by males, according to psychiatrists and other sources like pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co. Women are more likely to overdose on drugs, although the number of gunshot suicides among women has increased in recent years.

    Besides Pravda and Internet ezines - one of whom referred to Schoedinger as "deranged" - I haven’t seen stories on this strange death of a woman who filed a rape lawsuit against the U.S. president and wound up dead nine months later. I can’t say I’m surprised. Or even angry. I don’t know what the hell to think. All I know is I was one of the last - if not the last - reporters to speak to Schoedinger, and she didn’t sound "deranged" to me in July 2003. She sounded like someone who had gone through something weird and was trying to sort it out. She sounded like someone who wanted the truth to come out. And now she’s dead.

    If this had happened to Clinton when he was in the White House, do you think the story would have been covered non-stop on FOX, CNN and the right-wing talk shows? Do you think we’d have reporters asking Clinton and his people about this death in press conferences? Is FOX unfair and imbalanced to the point of being "deranged?"

    There are some more odd twists to this case. I also found a 2002 criminal case related to Schoedinger in which Christopher Schoedinger, her husband, allegedly struck her. He pleaded no contest and was sentenced to a year in jail. Christopher Schoedinger had also filed for divorce. Then since 1997, Margie Schoedinger had filed for at least five assumed business names for various ventures - including a communications firm, health and beauty business, travel agency and publishing company. Could a "deranged" person start all those businesses or even know how to file a lawsuit?

    Schoedinger’s lawsuit can still be viewed on the Fort Bend County site at http://ccweb.co.fort-bend.tx.us/localization/menu.asp - then go down to the bottom and click on civil court. Then type "schoedinger" in the plaintiff box and click search. You should find another lawsuit she filed against Sugar Land police, as well.
    I can really understand media members being intimidated, even frightened, of the Bush administration. As I’ve detailed before, these are not Boy Scouts running the show. The Schoedinger death is just the latest in a string of strange ones surrounding the Bush family - Bush biographer J.H. Hatfield, Sen. Paul Wellstone, Sen. Mel Carnahan, and others that are detailed on various sites, including at http://members.boardhost.com/gwbush/msg/362.html .

    For the record, I contacted Bush’s media office about Schoedinger and have yet to hear back. Now that I live in the Washington, D.C., area, I can go down to the White House in person and try to get someone to speak to me about this case. As expected, I haven’t had much luck with the Fort Bend County and other Texas authorities.
    So maybe I’ll stand outside the White House, holding a sign saying, "Who killed Margie Schoedinger?" and passing out copies of my column on the case. It would make about as much sense as anything else in this matter.

    For all I know, maybe Schoedinger did kill herself. Maybe she dreamedup a lot of this stuff. But I don’t know, am I "deranged" to think it’s weird that in this mass-media, detailed-information age, so few people are even asking any questions about how a woman who filed a rape lawsuit against the president could be dead less than a year later?

    Jackson Thoreau is an American writer and co-author of We Will Not Get Over It: Restoring a Legitimate White House. The updated, 120,000-word electronic book can be downloaded on his Internet site at http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/ebook.html. Citizens for Legitimate Government has the earlier version at http://www.legitgov.org/we_will_not_get_over_it.html. He can be contacted at jacksonthor@yahoo.com or jacksonthor@justice.com .

    (found at http://www.holesinthesky.com/bushrape.html)

    more http://blatanttruth.org/reading.php

  • Bush and Kerry belong to the Skull and Bones satanic ritual frat cult.

    Obviously, there are many many interior connections here. Both fear and hate Dean. I wish Dean were our President...

  • It’s all charade. There’s one entity behind both parties. Our democracy is a sham, the Democratic Party a fraud, there is no media.

    • meanwhile:
      Pay no attention to the naked gay conservative male prostitute sitting in the middle of the family values White House living room.....

      americablog.org

    • To this I can only say "follow the money". Not the obvious trails - the hidden secretive ones. There are only about 12 men behind the grand majority of all the wealth and power in the nation. Finding them may be hazardous to your health, but know they exist and hold the reins very firmly regardless of the political party the candidates belong to.

  • By DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON
    Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004

    Things haven’t changed all that much where George W. Bush comes from. Houston is a cruel and crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It’s a shabby sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West — which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.

    The Republican establishment is haunted by painful memories of what happened to Old Man Bush in 1992. He peaked too early, and he had no response to "It’s the economy, stupid."

    Which has always been the case. Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency. Richard Nixon comes quickly to mind, along with Ronald Reagan and his ridiculous "trickle-down" theory of U.S. economic policy. If the Rich get Richer, the theory goes, before long their pots will overflow and somehow "trickle down" to the poor, who would rather eat scraps off the Bush family plates than eat nothing at all. Republicans have never approved of democracy, and they never will. It goes back to preindustrial America, when only white male property owners could vote.

    Things haven’t changed all that much where George W. Bush comes from. Houston is a cruel and crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It’s a shabby sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West — which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.

    http://www.rollingstone.com

    Read more comments about George W. Bush by HUNTER S. THOMPSON at ESPN

    http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/archive?columnist=hunter_s._thompson&root=page2