Domenici, Wilson, Weh, Jennings, Rove and All Roads Lead To New Mexico !!! [View All]

[WillyT]

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Two months later, Schiff passed away after a battle with skin cancer and a special election was called for June 1998. Rather than facing a primary, Wilson won the backing of a local Republican committee in the special after Domenici leaned on members to support Wilson. Domenici dispatched Bell (Domenici's Chief Of Staff), as well as his political and finance directors, to run the subsequent campaign against a Democratic multi-millionaire.

After a narrow victory, the senator and the new representative were established as the backbone of the New Mexico GOP. "Pete Domenici is Congresswoman Wilson's mentor and a friend," said Enrique Carlos Knell, Wilson's spokesman.

Bell said he hired Wilson's first two chiefs of staff. In spring 2004, Domenici and Wilson installed her former fundraising chairman, Allen Weh, as the New Mexico GOP Chairman. Domenici has headed up annual fundraising events for Wilson, including a September 2006 event that he co-hosted with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

By the fall of 2006, Wilson was facing her toughest race in a brutal political climate, as the Abramoff and Mark Foley scandals became a central theme for Democrats. Wilson counter-punched with ads accusing her opponent, state Attorney General Patricia Madrid, of failing to tackle corruption, particularly in a courthouse construction probe connected to Democrats.

At the same time, local Republicans had been campaigning for investigations of Democrats over voter fraud allegations. Weh told McClatchy Newspapers in early March that he complained to one of White House adviser Karl Rove's deputies in 2005 about Iglesias' lack of voter-fraud prosecutions. One of Rove's aides, Scott Jennings, had served as the executive director of Bush-Cheney '04 in New Mexico. Jennings has been subpoenaed to testify before the House and Senate Judiciary committees.

Despite the complaints, Iglesias was still not being considered for dismissal in early October.

And...

In testimony before the senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, Sampson said that sometime between Oct. 17 and Nov. 7, Iglesias was added to the firing list.

He said he did not remember who added Iglesias to the list and what the reasons were. In that same timeframe, Gonzales relayed to Sampson a complaint from Rove about voter fraud cases in New Mexico. The White House has acknowledged that Bush himself also delivered complaints to Gonzales about voter fraud cases in New Mexico.

Link: http://www.lcsun-news.com/news/ci_5573641

Things seem a tad bit incestuous down in 'ole New Mexico, eh???

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