By Jaime Powell (Contact)
Originally published 04:19 a.m., November 28, 2007
Updated 04:19 a.m., November 28, 2007
Rove will headline the annual Bay Area Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse fundraiser.
Rove will headline the annual Bay Area Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse fundraiser.
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Former presidential adviser Karl Rove will headline the annual Bay Area Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse lunchtime fundraiser today before co-hosting a Republican fundraiser in the evening.
The luncheon event at the Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz International Center is sold out, said Bay Area Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse executive director Connie Scott.
Rove was an adviser to George W. Bush during his successful run for governor against Ann Richards in 1994. He went on to orchestrate Bush's first presidential campaign and subsequent re-election.
He served as Bush's right-hand man until stepping down in August. Rove has said he wanted to spend more time with his wife, Darby, and his son, who attends college in San Antonio.
Scott said Rove is an interesting and engaging speaker who likely will address his views on lawsuits and trial lawyers, as well as regaling the crowd with tales from the White House and his time with Bush.
Rove was unavailable for comment Tuesday.
Bay Area Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse, an anti-lawsuit organization, has invited several high profile speakers to the area for its annual fundraisers, including conservative political commentator and best-selling author Ann Coulter, Bush adviser Karen Hughes and Oliver North, a former National Security Council staff member under President Reagan.
Though Rove has stepped out of some of the limelight, he is playing an advisory role in the re-election campaign of U.S. Sen. John Cornyn.
Cornyn also is in town today, making a stop at a health center open house before continuing on to a private fundraiser at meat baron Jerry Kane and his wife Glenda's Hewit Drive home, co-hosted by Rove.
Connie Scott, who also is a Republican candidate for the Texas House of Representatives, and her husband, Mike, who sits on the lawsuit abuse group's board of directors, have known Rove since the 1980s.
Contact Jaime Powell at 886-3716 or powellj@caller.com
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Post 1 November 28, 2007 at 5:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Looks like all the Republican Meat Cleavers love Corpus Christi.
Post 2 November 28, 2007 at 6:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I think the Bay Area Citizens against Lawsuit Abuse need to come out of the closet and just admit that they are flaming republicans! They stand four-square for the business community at any expense to individuals. Their choice of speakers may be making them a bunch of money for funding their agenda - but is eye-opening as far as who they endorse! Let's see if they can get Cheney after he leaves office!
Post 3 November 28, 2007 at 7 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Bring in your claws Post's 1 & 2. Maybe if you attended, and heard what Rove had to say(without media translation)you might learn something. Would much rather hear what he, or Vice President Cheney had to say, than Billhillary.
Post 4 November 28, 2007 at 7:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Post 3,
You can't learn anything from a Republican whose forte is false narratives.
Post 5 November 28, 2007 at 11:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Well, it's not just "false narratives." It's the whole dirty tricks, attack-attack-attack, acuse falsely, and wrapping themselves in the flag and holiness in general. YUCKO WHACKOS! And we all better get crackin' and vote, or some Hugo Chavez-type Republican is going to take over here and that will be that! Only these guys unashamedly support business at any cost, and oppose citizen's rights at all costs.
Post 6 November 28, 2007 at 11:26 a.m. (Suggest removal)
But you can learn so much from lazy democrats that buy and sell judges in Nueces County on a daily basis. Can you say Celis? Jeez you idiots are never going to get anything done in that city unless you start thinking like an elephant instead of a donkey.
Post 7 November 28, 2007 at 2:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Apparently there are plenty of people who want to hear what they have to say! It just tears you demos a new one doesn't it? The event is
You same posters that keep bashing the Republican Party over and over again only listen to what the media tells you. You absolutely will not think for yourself. Blind hatred for Bush. Your foaming at the mouths, now grab a kleenex and wipe the froth from your foaming mouths.
Post 8 November 28, 2007 at 3:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Thank you Post 7..it's time the "silent majority" becomes vocal. Could not have worded your response better.
Post 9 November 28, 2007 at 3:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
These two zombies are all that BACALA could dredge up to trudge through Corpus Christi?
Post 10 November 28, 2007 at 4:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)
post 3 ~~~how could the "Average citizen" possibly attend when your "gang" only want to "exploit" and do bank on the "Disengagement of the average citizen in the formulation of public policy"??
Was the public invited??
Maybe the next time you have surgery your balls will accidentally be chopped off or better yet, you & KC and the band can just go hunting with Dick Chaney.
I wonder if they even had a "Texas Hunting" license and stamp?
LIke the average hunter has to in Texas.
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