{"id":5228,"date":"2005-09-12T10:12:13","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T14:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2005-09-12T10:12:13","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T14:12:13","slug":"karl-roves-long-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/karl-roves-long-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Rove’s long reach"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a week ago, the Washington Post ran a report<\/a> noting that Karl Rove was illegally taking a homestead deduction and property tax cap on his home in DC, and owed the city back taxes. It hardly seemed worth mentioning — not only was there more important news to consider, this apparent clerical error would appear to rank pretty low among Rove’s ills.<\/p>\n

That is, until a lawyer in the Texas secretary of state’s office was fired<\/a> for her role in confirming the Post’s story.<\/p>\n

A staff attorney with the Texas secretary of state said yesterday that she was fired this week for violating press protocols when she spoke to a Washington Post reporter who was working on a story about presidential adviser Karl Rove.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Reyes, 30, of Austin said she was fired Tuesday after she was quoted in a Post story that ran Sept. 3 about tax deductions on Rove’s homes in the District and in Texas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Once again, the Bush gang looks more like an organized crime family than a White House staff. Reyes inadvertently hurt Rove, so Reyes no longer has a job in Texas government.<\/p>\n

And when I say “inadvertently,” I mean that literally. The Post contacted Reyes’ office and asked about generalities. Reyes wasn’t even asked about Rove by name<\/i>; all she did was accurately state the law as it applies to everyone. But within days of playing a side role in a story that hurt Rove, she’s gone.<\/p>\n

For that matter, when the Plame scandal in mind, there is some irony here. Rove talked to a reporter; Reyes talked to a reporter. Rove told a lie; Reyes told the truth. Rove was driven by a desire to smear a political rival; Reyes was driven by a desire to give a reporter accurate information. Rove may have violated a series of federal laws; Reyes may have violated an office policy about media interviews involving “controversial” subject matter.<\/p>\n

Rove is helping run the executive branch of the federal government; Reyes is unemployed. Bush’s America is an odd place indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a week ago, the Washington Post ran a report noting that Karl Rove was illegally taking a homestead deduction and property tax cap on his home in DC, and owed the city back taxes. It hardly seemed worth mentioning — not only was there more important news to consider, this apparent clerical error would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}