New U.S. Attorney Nominee’s 1998 Campaign Was Run By Rove-Protege Tim Griffin

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New U.S. Attorney Nominee’s 1998 Campaign Was Run By Rove-Protege Tim Griffin

The controversial U.S. attorney in Arkansas, Tim Griffin, has resigned, effective June 1.

While no replacement has been named, ThinkProgress spoke with Rep. John Boozman’s (R-AR) office earlier this month, who confirmed that on March 30, the congressman submitted three names to the White House to replace Griffin. His office said that it has not heard from the administration on the state of the process.

One of the candidates put forward by Boozman is former Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court Betty C. Dickey. Dickey has longstanding ties to Griffin, who managed her unsuccessful 1998 state attorney general race against Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR). She has also publicly spoken out in support of Rove-protege Griffin:

“Tim Griffin is a fine young man and he is a good attorney, and sometimes partisan politics is a problem, in both parties,” said Betty Dickey, a Democrat-turned-Republican who has been acting chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court.

Griffin worked on Dickey’s unsuccessful 1998 campaign for attorney general. She lost that race to Pryor.

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/31/dickey-griffin/

[L. Coyote]

1. I wonder if the "Arkansas Project" has anything to do with controlling justice in AR today??