Another Top Bush Aide Makes an Exit (Sara Taylor worked w/ Alex Gage of TargetPoint Consulting)

[maddezmom]

Source: Washington Post

By Michael A. Fletcher
Monday, May 28, 2007; Page A15

As the Bush administration inches closer to its concluding months, more top aides are headed out to the private sector. Sara M. Taylor, the White House political director and microtargeting guru who has been with George W. Bush from the outset of his first presidential campaign, is the latest staff member to leave the president's employ.

Taylor, 32, was one of the first people put on the payroll of the Bush campaign, trekking through snowy Washington to interview with Karl Rove and Bush, who was then governor of Texas. Taylor worked on the 2000 campaign, and later became a political aide in the White House.

In 2004, she worked on Bush's reelection campaign, where she helped refine the emerging political art of microtargeting. Working with Alex Gage of TargetPoint Consulting, Taylor was among those who helped use sophisticated analysis of consumer data to enable the Bush campaign to target potential voters even when they resided in Democratic-leaning voting districts.

The campaign developed lists of potentially sympathetic voters, based in part on computer analysis of people's spending habits. Those voters were then targeted for direct mail and other advertising. The data-mining techniques are credited with giving Republicans a decisive turnout advantage in the 2004 election; they are now commonly practiced by Democrats as well.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/27/AR2007052700896.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. Track these people.

Find out exactly where they are going, and exactly where they work for the rest of their lives.

Obviously they don't give a shit about humanity, and they need to be hunted, studied, and catalogued.

[formercia]

2. They're looking for hidey-holes

keep an eye out in the '08 campaigns. I'm sure they will resurface.

[alfredo]

3. I bet she helped with caging lists too.

[quiet.american]

4. No mention of the subpoena approved for her to testify or that she's an *official* Rove operative

To hear *Michael A. Fletcher* tell it, she's merely starting to look for her next job before the herd of post-Bushies hit the streets. No mention that a subpoena has been approved for her, or that she was actually a deputy of Rove's, and not merely a traveling aide during the 2004 campaign -- what a complete and total whitewash.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/25/AR2007042500732_2.html

Across Capitol Hill, Leahy's panel approved _ but did not issue _ a subpoena in the firings matter for Sara Taylor, deputy to Bush political adviser Karl Rove.

http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/070510nj1.htm

Sampson testified before Congress that he drafted the February 23 letter even though he had conferred with the White House about appointing Griffin. Sampson testified that he included the language about Rove not being involved because he didn't know for a fact that Rove was pushing for his former aide's appointment.

"I knew that Sara Taylor and Scott Jennings had expressed interest in promoting Mr. Griffin for appointment to be U.S. attorney, and I assumed, because they reported to Karl Rove, that he was interested in that," Sampson said in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 29.

[L. Coyote]

6. Indeed. The WSJ article was even worse. PURE White (House) Wash. TIA on Taylor

The White House role in violating the Civil Rights Act to limit Dem voting is the real issue in all this!

CAGING? PURGING?? TIA thread on Sara Taylor here:

EXIT RIGHT. Sara Taylor, WH political director, Rove Aide RESIGNS? "subpoenas for her testimony"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Add useful info and links please. You won't find the WSJ link there either!

[quiet.american]

7. Cheers- thanks for pointing me to the other thread -- the link doesn't seem to be working though.

But I'll do a search to locate it.

[FloridaJudy]

5. Rats/ship n/t

[bobthedrummer]

8. They have got away with murder for long enough, in addition to all the other crimes.

Here are a few links that I hope will be shared and motivate members and readers to action-there are murderers in this criminal administration. People like Ms. Taylor helped them.

"Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Sandbagged Novation LLC Prosecution" thread started by IChing 4-16-2007
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2809066

"The Motherlode-Down a dark hole in the US Attorney purge scandal" thread started by George Oilwellian 4-26-2007
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x758013

"A DU collaborative investigation: Thelma Colbert, Shannon Ross and other deaths at DoJ" I started this thread 5-8-2007
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x847120

Share this far and wide.

[bobthedrummer]

9. Kick