Details emerge about conversation between Rove, Christian leader

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http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/politics/12877168.htm


Posted on Tue, Oct. 11, 2005

Details emerge about conversation between Rove, Christian leader

BY DAVE MONTGOMERY
Knight Ridder Newspapers


WASHINGTON - (KRT) - In a private conversation designed to garner support for the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, White House aide Karl Rove told a key conservative Christian leader that the Texas lawyer had taken positions that "would not be supportive of abortion."

The unusual contact between Rove and James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, a Colorado evangelical group staunchly opposed to abortion, came two days before President Bush announced Miers' nomination.

Dobson was one of the few fundamental Christian leaders to endorse Miers, whose lack of a public stand on abortion or other conservative legal issues has prompted widespread criticism among Bush's traditional supporters.

Dobson made the disclosure in a radio address taped Tuesday, following threats that the Senate Judiciary Committee might subpoena him and force him to describe his conversation with Rove.

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This was the first news story I saw about the taped radio address, but the unedited transcript's been online for nearly an hour, at http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_4150307,00.html (I posted about it in GD).