Bush-campaign saboteur gets an unlikely olive branch

[MaineDem]

Say what you will about George W. Bush. The man knows how to forgive and forget.

Three years after Tom Connolly dropped a fax of the president's old drunken-driving conviction into the hands of local news media - and in the process all but torched a presidential campaign just days before a historic national election - the Portland lawyer finally heard back this week from the man Connolly once referred to on his Web site as "Weinerboy."

It came in the mail on Wednesday. It's a computer-autographed, color picture of the president and first lady Laura Bush, both smiling warmly from outside their ranch in Crawford, Texas.

Below the picture, it says, "To: Thomas J. Connolly, Thank you for your early commitment and dedication as a Charter Member of the Campaign in Maine. Grassroots leaders like you are the key to building a winning team. Best wishes, Laura Bush, George Bush."

http://www.pressherald.com/news/nemitz/031219nemitz.shtml

[bushisanidiot]

1. Holy Crap. The Repuke Thugs Went After Him!

from the article:

"First came the death threats from Bush zealots convinced that Connolly, Maine's 1998 Democratic candidate for governor and a delegate to the 2000 Democratic National Convention, was the hit man tapped by the Al Gore campaign to blindside Bush with a last-minute smear as Election Day neared. To this day, Connolly insists he acted at no one else's behest.

Twice in the days following the election, while the recount in Florida dragged on, Connolly was physically assaulted. Once, he said, a man got out of a pickup truck on Congress Street, knocked him to the ground, got back in the pickup and drove away. Then, one evening in a supermarket, another man rammed Connolly from behind with a shopping cart and whacked him on the back of the head.

"One day, someone smashed the back window of my car," Connolly said.

Another day, a pickup drove onto the front lawn of his home in Scarborough and dumped a load of foam packing peanuts all over the place.

Still another day, Connolly looked out his window to see a truckload of raw garbage strewn across the yard. He spent hours combing through it, looking for a name or address. "Nothing," he muttered.

It gets worse. As Bush prepared, at long last, for Inauguration Day, Connolly began getting nasty notices from motor vehicle bureaus in three states: New Jersey, Georgia and Louisiana. Each informed him that his license to drive had been suspended in that state because he had failed to show proof of insurance following an alleged accident there.

"In New Jersey, the report had me hitting Caroline Kennedy," Connolly said. "In Georgia, they had me hitting Amy Carter . . . which was good, because it made it a little easier to get it all cleared up."

and there's more..

Damned repukes! This is pure criminal intimidation! If someone has the goods on AWOL and goes public with it then they will be harrassed or "suicided". The republican party is PURE EVIL!

[Military Brat]

2. They defend * the way the Republican Guard defended Saddam

Got to protect the one who protects your way of life, you know, especially when your way of life depends on unquestioned authority.

[MaineDem]

3. I know...scary stuff

Nothing surprises me about the depths to which this evil administration will sink in order to win.

[0007]

4. Don't forget this one!

You fucking son of a bitch, I saw wht you wrote,
We're not going to forget this.

--George W. Bush to the the Wall street Journal's Al Hurt, 1988