Posted on 10/03/2005 5:19:55 AM PDT by Former Military Chick
Oct. 3, 2005 — Harriet Ellan Miers is White House counsel and was formerly President Bush's personal lawyer in Texas. She first served in the White House as staff secretary and was deputy chief of staff before she was named counsel upon Alberto Gonzales' transition to attorney general.
When he was the governor of Texas, Bush once publicly introduced Miers as a "pit bull in size 6 shoes."
Born and raised in Dallas, Miers earned her undergraduate degree in mathematics and her law degree from Southern Methodist University. In addition to her legal career, she served one term on the Dallas City Council.
Miers, 60, broke barriers for women throughout her career. She reportedly was the first woman hired by the prestigious Dallas law firm Locke Purnell Boren Laney & Neely, where she became a successful commercial litigator. She also became the first female president of the Dallas Bar Association in 1985 and was the first woman elected president of the Texas Bar Association in 1992.
Miers met Bush in the 1980s, according to published reports, and she was counsel for his 1994 campaign for governor. He appointed her chair of the Texas Lottery Commission in 1995.
Miers then was president of Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell and co-managing partner of Locke Liddell & Sapp before she joined the White House in 2001.
In addition, Miers was named one of the Top 50 Most Influential Lawyers by the National Law Journal in 1998, and she received numerous other awards from groups including the Dallas Women Lawyers Association, the Anti-Defamation League and the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers.
It wasn't Exodus International. It was Exodus Ministries, a group in Texas that helps ex-criminals reintegrate into society. Still a worthwhile group from the looks of it.
Apparently Gore was pro-life and pro-gun in 1988.
Seadevil,
Outstanding post.
Just like Alberto "preferences" Gonzales is "well known" to Bush right?
Howlin.... there is no reason for this pick. There are know conservatives out there. We have the majority in the senate and house. If we cant' nominate a known conservative now.... when can we????
I'm not pretending to know why he picked her.
Humor me... which one?
"The childish wailing of so many uninformed posters diminishes this forum"
No, just movement conservatives that have been BURNED once too often.
Where did our President keep his promise to be a conservative. The Budget? Foreign policy? Where?
He's been a stumbling, bumbling Country Club Republican with no brains nor braun.
My main question at the moment too.
mc
The premise of your question is wrong: Allbaugh and Brown were not college buddies. Where do you get your info? My state was pummelled by four hurricanes last year, and FEMA did a great job. The problem with KATRINA wasn't FEMA--it was the 'rat governor and mayor in Louisiana.
Bush: Souter, Thomas (who was considered a stealth nominee)
Reagan: Scalia, Kennedy, O'Connor.
We have the majority. Why try to avoid the showdown that was desperately needed to put the Dems in their place?
The most important issue is pervert marriages, something old subway senator chuckie scummer inadvertently let slip a couple months ago in his initial reaction to the Roberts nomination.
Watch this carefully...
[Mark this: I view abortion as a ritual murder performed upon an altar of conceit and before and idol of vanity.]
The only apparent reason is that he doesn't have the stomach for a real fight about it.
Souled-Out,
Thanks for putting words in my mouth. I actually have a whole set of beliefs that I will stand up for, but this one in particular is beyond compromise and dictates compromise on other lesser beliefs.
I certainly DO understand and respect what you're saying, I just cannot comprehend how a person could possibly expose the nation he/she loves to the danger presented by a Left Wing Radical President...
I was being funny, of course: failure to get passionate about something important is just as bad as getting fired up about silly things. Thus I took your remark as reflecting badly on the women, not the men. :-)
More seriously, my concern is that we don't know enough about this nominee, and unfortunately we can't just sit back and trust President Bush: he has demonstrated far too many times that he can't be trusted. It would be pure blind faith to give him "the benefit of the doubt". On the thin ice he's treading, he has an obligation to make it abso-bloody-lutely clear that he's doing the right thing.
That's what I meant. She is no lib.
Well, I give up. We have the Presidency, congress, etc. and Bush doesn't have the guts to nominate another Scalia?? WHO CARES what the Democrats think? Would they sit around and try to placate us? Was Ginsburg a moderate? I guess I'll be voting Libertarian from now on.
I would guess that because I feel betrayed and you feel secure by the Presidents choice your "feelings" are more appropriate?
Thank you for the stuff on Gore. He is/was just a more aggravating example of the majority of politicians-- willing to assume any position that will ingratiate him (them) with the power brokers in their power.
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