A look at the other handiwork of Rove proteges (now caught in controversy)

[Mabus]

I saw rodeo's post about Wal-Mart firing one of its consultants, Terry Nelson, for the Corker ad. That's the second of Rove-trained political minions to be connected to the anti-Ford (TN) ad. The other Rovian menance's name is Scott Howell. see hhttp://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2908860

I wondered what else these two have been up to so I used "the google" and here's a sampling of what I found:

Scott Howell is the man Democrats love to hate.

A Republican media consultant, Howell has been involved in some of the most high-profile (and nasty) Senate races in recent memory, including Sen. Saxby Chambliss's (R) 2002 defeat of Max Cleland (D) in Georgia and Sen. John Thune's (R) 2004 victory over Minority Leader Tom Daschle in South Dakota.

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A look at Howell's record over the past two election cycles does show a remarkable record of success. In 2002, Howell was the media consultant for Chambliss as well as Sens. Norm Coleman (Minn.) and Jim Talent (Mo.). Two years later, Howell helped elect Thune as well as Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C) and Tom Coburn (Okla.) and appeared to have elected Dino Rossi as governor of Washington -- though a lengthy recount had Rossi coming up a few hundred votes short and Republicans vowing revenge in 2008.

Howell has a roster stacked with top-tier contests again in 2006. He will handle the television strategy for Talent's tough reelection bid against State Auditor Claire McCaskill (D), and he will serve as the media consultant for Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard's (R) challenge to Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D). In Minnesota, Howell will handle Rep. Mark Kennedy's (R) bid for the open Minnesota Senate seat, and down in Florida he is working for state CFO Tom Gallagher (R) gubernatorial campaign. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2006/02/insider_interview_scott_howell.html

Associates of Mr. Howell said the advertisement was typical of a media strategist who has in the past manufactured political controversy to win tough races in spite of — or because of — the intense reaction the work so often provokes.

He helped produce the early 2004 advertisement for President Bush that showed a coffin coming out of the rubble of the World Trade Center wreckage. It was immediately criticized by a group of Sept. 11 widows but was later credited with changing the subject of the campaign from economic woes to the president’s national security credentials. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/us/politics/27ads.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1161921600&en=2d6e1d3254bd3d78&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin

and now the recently fired Terry Nelson:

Terry Nelson, who "has the unique distinction of being tied to two of the biggest cases of Republican campaign corruption" during the George W. Bush era <1>, has been "enlisted" by the Republican National Committee "to run a campaign that will coordinate with Senate Republicans on ads that similarly will rely on the best of the worst that researchers have dug up on Democrats," Jim VandeHei and Chris Cillizza reported in the September 10, 2006, Washington Post.

"Nelson was implicated in the infamous New Hampshire-phone jamming scandal and he was an unindicted coconspirator in the political money-laundering case which ended Tom DeLay's career," Josh Marshall wrote in his Talking Points Memo September 10, 2006. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Terry_Nelson

:wow: Really makes you wonder what the other Rove proteges are up to and what campaigns they are currently working on.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Like in "Fantasia", looks like Rove is the broom that Mickey Mouse

subdivides and all hell breaks loose with all the little brooms.

[Mabus]

2. I ws thinking more LOTR

No doubt this analogy came to mind because of Santorum's bad LOTR analogy in the last week or so.

The way I see it, the Eye of Sauron (Rove) flickers out and the implosion/explosion takes out Sauron's army of mutants, misfits and other ne'er-do-wells.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Appropos. Touche. n/t