- Rove soon to be living on "Republican Riviera?"
As rumors swirl around Washington that White House Deputy Chief of Staff
Karl Rove may soon be leaving the White House soon "to spend more
time with his family," there is renewed interest in how he obtained
a sweetheart land deal on his Rosemary Beach home on the Florida Panhandle.
Florida investigators have discovered that the beach tract where Rove's
home is located (for which he paid a mere $165,000 for the land in 2002)
was owned by the St. Joe Company, Florida's largest private land owner
and a firm that George H. W. Bush and the DuPont family have had a significant
financial stake. An informed source told WMR that Rove's sweetheart land
deal is tied to the Tom DeLay/Jack Abramoff money laundering scandal. "Florida
is the center-of-gravity with Abramoff's deals," said the source.
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- St. Joe also owns half of the real estate development
firm Codina Group, founded by Armando Codina, a personal friend of George
H. W. Bush and one-time business partner of Governor Jeb Bush. Until 1994,
when Jeb Bush first ran for governor, the Codina Group was known as the
Codina Bush Group. Since Jeb Bush became governor, he's taken care of his
old business friends, selling them state-owned land at cut rate prices.
Conveniently, Rove's Panhandle neighbors will include some of Jeb's and
Dubya's top fund raisers and friends -- people financially tied in with
St. Joe and Codina.
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- Insiders Say Rove May Leave White House
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- 11-6-5
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- WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Karl
Rove's colleagues are preparing for the possibility that he may leave the
White House because of the CIA leak case.
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- Despite the insistence of friends that he is out of legal
jeopardy, several of the lawyers who deal with special counsel Patrick
Fitzgerald believe Fitzgerald is continuing to look into the possibility
of charging Rove with lying to investigators or the grand jury or both,
Time magazine reports.
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- If that happens, Rove almost certainly would resign immediately.
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- Several Bush administration officials predict that within
a year, the president will have a new chief of staff and press secretary,
probably a new treasury secretary and maybe a new defense secretary, the
magazine said.
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- If Rove does head out, he may leave behind a wounded
president.
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- "A president who loves to hit home runs and wants
to be remembered for swinging for the fences is being forced to take base
hits," says a former White House official.
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