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Folmar, mayor from 1977 until 1999, switched to the GOP in 1975. He said journalists call him every time Bush runs for office to ask questions about the poorly recorded year the young man spent in Alabama.

"This thing has been investigated ad nauseam," Folmar said. "Why are you still whipping this dead horse?"

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Turnipseed ping.

[I. M. Trenchant]

Was there any indication from McClellan that GWB has a recollection of meeting Calhoun ? One would assume he might if they met in Calhoun's office.

[SolidSupplySide]

Bob Ingram, a veteran Alabama political reporter, said he never saw Bush working on Blount's election campaign, but he faced him twice across a tennis net.

NEW SCANDAL!!!!!

Did Bush ever work on the Blount campaign when he was in Alabama? After all, we have a witness who says he never saw Bush work on the campaign.

[JimRed]

"Why are you still whipping this dead horse?"

'Cause they've got nothing else.

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[Texasforever]

This backs it up

Former Dannelly worker: Bush not AWOL

By Eric Fleischauer
DAILY Staff Writer
eric@decaturdaily.com · 340-2435

Retired Master Sgt. James Copeland does not care so much whether people think President Bush went absent without leave in 1972, but one thing he hears bothers him plenty.

"Maybe the Bush family was well known in Texas, but we didn't know who he was here. He was just another guy in a flight jacket," Copeland said Sunday.

Copeland, who lives in Hartselle, retired from the Air Force on Jan. 31, 1980. He was the disbursement accounting supervisor, a full-time position, for Dannelly Air National Guard Base in Montgomery from Oct. 28, 1971, to Oct. 27, 1975. His office was less than 100 yards from the hangar where Bush performed drills.

Rumors say Bush went AWOL while assisting Winton "Red" Blount in an unsuccessful campaign for U.S. Senate focus on 1972 and 1973.

Copeland, 65, remembers meeting Bush on two occasions. He does not remember the precise dates. On one occasion, Copeland said, Bush and Lt. Col. John "Bill" Calhoun came to Copeland's office with a question about Bush's pay. Copeland is not sure, but he believes the question had to do with where to mail Bush's checks.

Bush was never a member of the Alabama National Guard, he just did his drills here. For that reason, Copeland thinks he referred the pay question to the paymaster for the Texas National Guard.