Bolton part of Bush's crew in Florida during 2K rumble.

[Pepperbelly]

A C-SPAN caller just asserted that Bolton was one of the Bush Gang that was protesting the recount in Florida during 2K. She claimed that he protested each vote that Gore received and stood by for Fat Tony's fix in the Court. When he got word of it, he stopped the recount.

She said she had tape of it in her archives.

Interesting, eh?

[wakeme2008]

1. From yesterday's St. Pete Times

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/04/11/Worldandnation/Misconduct_probe_may_.shtml

From my post yesterday

Couple clips

In an interview at the time, Bolton told me he was sticking to his version, saying he could back it up with intelligence data. "We are very confident about our data," he said. Of course, he couldn't produce the data, which was highly classified. Instead, he asked me to trust him.


...

That's how I remember him. In November 2000, Bolton was among a group of Republicans that burst into the offices of the Miami-Dade supervisor of elections on behalf of the Bush-Cheney team, trying to stop the recount.

[onehandle]

3. Ah, interesting. Maybe he was not with the main thugs. nt

[onehandle]

2. I've never seen his name associated with that event.

I believe he may have been too high profile for that "task".

2005 Update: (Al Kamen, Washington Post 1/24/05)

No. 1. Tom Pyle, who had worked for Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), went private sector a few months later, getting a job as director of federal affairs for Koch Industries.

No. 2. Garry Malphrus, a former staff director of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on criminal justice, is now deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.

No. 3. Rory Cooper, who was at the National Republican Congressional Committee, later worked at the White House Homeland Security Council and was seen last week working for the Presidential Inaugural Committee.

No. 6. Matt Schlapp, a former House aide and then a Bush campaign aide, has risen to be White House political director.

No. 7. Roger Morse, another House aide, moved on to the law and lobbying firm Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds. "I was also privileged to lead a team of Republicans to Florida to help in the recount fight," he told a legal trade magazine in a 2003 interview.

No. 8. Duane Gibson, an aide on the House Resources Committee, was a solo lobbyist and formerly with the Greenberg Traurig lobby operation. He is now with the Livingston Group as a consultant.

No. 9. Chuck Royal was and still is a legislative assistant to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a former House member.

No. 10. Layna McConkey Peltier, who had been a Senate and House aide and was at Steelman Health Strategies during the effort, is now at Capital Health Group.

(We couldn't find No. 4, Kevin Smith, a former GOP House aide who later worked with Voter.com, or No. 5, Steven Brophy, a former GOP Senate aide and then at consulting firm KPMG. If you know what they are doing these days, please e-mail [e-mail] we can update our records.)

Sources say the "rioters" proudly note their participation on résumés and in interviews.

http://archive.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=181

[wakeme2008]

5. YA you forget the "Command" RV that they

drove to Miami and ran their operation out of. Bolton sounds like that would have been his post.

IMHO...

[ananda]

4. payback

Ah ha!

This UN job is payback for being one of the Dade County thugs. I guess Bush owes his job to DeLay and Bolton and thugs like that....

Sue

[Pepperbelly]

6. these f*ckers are so transparent AND crooked. nt