[dandelion]

Admin, I do not believe this information is found anywhere else yet. Please pull if you do not think this belongs in breaking news.

Soliciting your thoughts, pajama people...

[ArmyBratproud]

BUMP FOR GREAT INFO.

Good Job!

The dems are connected to the memos

[Jenya]

[Petronski]

I don't think Burkett should be smeared as some kind of psycho, when the fact is, he is a 21st century Donald Segretti who knew exactly what he was doing.

But the lone nut theory is the only thing that will save Dan and the DNC now, so here we go.

[dandelion]

PING in the night! You were interested last night - perhaps this little tidbit will interest you all further...

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

Excellent job piecing things together.

You can probably be assured that Burkett is the author of those letters. I know both Burkett and the Texas PPC caucus were not happy with Molly Beth Malcom as the TDP chair. They endorsed Van Os, who ultimately bowed out of the race.

Van Os has sent e-mails in Burkett's name, who he listed as a "West Texas Grass Roots Activist" on the Texas Democrats yahoo group.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Texas-Democrats/message/2757


Also of note is that Molly Beth stepped down in September of 2003.

There's absolutely no doubt that Burkett is a player in Texas Democratic politics. He also claimed New Mexico governor Bill Richardson as an "old friend."

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Texas-Democrats/message/4470

You should be congratulated for your work with piecing together how pervasive Burkett's links to the Democrats are. Truly excellent work IMHO.

[datura]

Haven't I read that Burkett had trouble running down someone from the Kerry staff to give his 'reconstructed' records to, and eventually got them to Cleland? This was before CBS got the documents, so they must have gotten them from Kerry's losers.

Also, Van Os is ineligible to run for office in the state of Texas. Van Os is a member of the CPUSA, which disqualifies him as a candidate for public office in Texas. It's too bad that Kerry can't be pulled from the ballots in Texas due to his being certified by the CPUSA - certified to the point that they didn't even bother to field a candidate and are relying on Kerry.

[finnigan2]

With Rather's trip to Texas last week to talk to Burkett face to face, it is evident that Burkett is being set up as a mentally unstable rogue source who duped CBS with a believable story and clever forgeries. I wonder how Rather talked him into sitting still for this fall guy role - for the good of the Party, or for the good of the cause to get rid of Bush?

[Flint]

I see this.

Cleland goes down to Texas to deliver that letter to Bush at his ranch. Bush snubs Cleland, Burkett contacts Cleland with documents in hand. Cleland contacts Rather and says he has a gold mine that he is looking at and it will destroy Bush. Rather starts foaming at the mouth, he now has an "unimpeachable" source for something. The documents get faxed to Rather and he is off to the races and doesn't bother to fact check anything since they came from a former Democrat Senator who says they are good as gold. Cleland doesn't know Texas politics and doesn't know that Burkett is a loose cannon. Rather doesn't check up on where Cleland got the papers.

[Brilliant]

Looks like this guy, van Os, has committed political hairy Kerry by associating with Burkett.

[GOPcapitalist]

Great to see that this story's getting out, but the blogs still scooped them on this one by at least four days:

http://www.chronicallybiased.com/index.php?itemid=1555#more

[tertiary01]

BTTT

[mylife]

Excellent report Dandy

Go gettem!

[Stultis]

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