Money-Grubbing Smear Merchants Rex Butler and Tank Jones Target Governor Palin
Levi Johnston's Mentor - Tank Jones
Tank Jones defends the indefensible
Posted on 09/23/2010 8:19:05 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took to Twitter on Wednesday to deliver a pair of cryptic messages related to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Pete Rouse, who is rumored to be a potential interim replacement for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in the event that Emanuel leaves the administration next month to run for mayor of Chicago.
"Alaska's Pete Rouse (@ least he claims to be ‘Alaska')finally comes out of the shadows; Obama looks to appt him COS;strange doings in the WH," Palin tweeted, adding, "(Rahm's the smart one...bailing before Nov) Now, check out possible COS Pete Rouse. His background, voter reg in AK,etc. It's a small world"
Palin has previously alluded to her suspicions that Rouse, who once worked in Juneau and is still registered to vote in Alaska, may be at the center of a White House operation designed to undermine her politically.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Money-Grubbing Smear Merchants Rex Butler and Tank Jones Target Governor Palin
Levi Johnston's Mentor - Tank Jones
Tank Jones defends the indefensible
Who issues his driver’s licence...and does he own property in the state?
http://webofdeception.com/rouse.html
(WOD Note: This post is research and investigation of voter eligibilty. In our investigation
we found Obama appointee Kim Elton, whose 609 Main Street was the address for Peter
Rouse’s Alaska voting residence was in business with John Lindback. John Lindback is
presently the Director of Elections for the State of Oregon who before his Oregon appointment
was an official for the Alaska Division of Elections and was an aide to the Alaska House
Finance Committee, where Kim Elton served)
from link:
Subj: FW: Absentee voter and District Homestead Exemption
Mr. Culligan:
Upon review of Mr. Peter M. Rouse’s case, he has not completely severed all
ties to another state by voting outside of D.C.; therefore, we are reversing his
homestead deduction and sending him a corrected bill.
If you have any other inquiries, please feel free to contact me directly.
Thank you.
Thanh-Thuy “Twee” Nguyen
Manager
Homestead Unit
Office of Tax and Revenue
941 N. Capitol ST NE Suite 400
Washington, DC 20002
Senior Advisor Pete Rouse
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Peter M. Rouse is Senior Advisor to President Barack H. Obama. He was a co-chair of the Obama-Biden Transition Project, a senior adviser to President Obama’s campaign, and chief of staff to then-Senator Barack Obama.
Known as the “101st Senator” for his extensive knowledge of Congress, Rouse served as chief of staff to members of the United States Congress for more than thirty years. Before joining President Obama’s Senate office in 2004, he was chief of staff to former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) for 19 years. He also served as chief of staff to then-Rep. Dick Durbin of Illinois (1984-85) and Lt. Governor Terry Miller of Alaska (1979-83).
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But these days, Pete Rouse works in the White House, two doors from his close friend, President Barack Obama.
For 25 years as the consummate Democratic insider in the U.S. Senate, Rouse played a quiet role as the backdoor connection for Alaska’s all-Republican delegation to the other side of the aisle in Congress. He was the longtime chief of staff for Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., the one-time Senate majority leader, and starting in 2004 Rouse took on the same job for a promising young freshman senator from Illinois.
Today, as special adviser to Obama, Rouse is in the innermost circle of the West Wing. His office sits between chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and communications director David Axelrod (for fans of “The West Wing” television series, that would be Josh Lyman’s office).
“It’s only been four years here, this trip from freshman senator,” the 62-year-old Rouse said in a telephone interview earlier this month, breaking from his usual low-profile to talk about his Alaska ties. “It has been an interesting ride. I feel pretty invested in it.”
His Alaska roots run deeper than those of almost anyone reading these words. His mother, the daughter of Japanese immigrants, grew up in Anchorage starting in World War I, when it was a railroad construction town. His cousin was the longtime municipal attorney for the City of Palmer.
But Rouse himself was born on the East Coast and had never been west of Denver when he flew to Alaska in late 1978 to visit a friend, Alaska’s newly elected Republican lieutenant governor, Terry Miller.
Rouse ended up working as Miller’s chief of staff for the final four years of Gov. Jay Hammond’s administration. It was a great experience, Rouse said, a time when Juneau was filled with young idealists eager to grapple with the state’s new oil money, infrastructure need and unformed social policies.
“Juneau at the time was 19,000 people, but it was really a town on the move in terms of young, well-educated people excited by these policy issues,” he recalled.
The ambitious young staffer returned to Washington, D.C., in 1983 and worked for Democrats in the Senate ever since. For a while, he imagined returning to Alaska if Miller ever managed to win a race for governor. The dream faded; Miller died of bone cancer in 1989, at age 46. Rouse’s last visit to Juneau was to attend his old friend’s memorial.
Rouse continued to keep many personal ties in Alaska — along with his voter registration. In last November’s presidential race, records show, the man who would co-lead Obama’s transition team voted absentee in Juneau.
Rouse declined to discuss his voter registration.
Legally he appears to be on fairly secure footing. Voters are allowed to maintain registration here if they don’t vote elsewhere and intend to return someday. They are also excused if they are working somewhere in civil service of the United States — a description that pretty much encapsulates Rouse’s career. But he does not show up on Alaska Permanent Fund dividend records.)
ALASKA CONNECTION
The story of Alaska’s connection to Obama’s inner circle begins in 1915 with the arrival of Goro (George) and Mine Mikami in Seward, where construction of the Alaska Railroad was under way. Three years later the immigrants from Japan moved to Anchorage. Their daughter, Mary, entered school speaking only Japanese and went on to become valedictorian at Anchorage High School. In 1934, Mary graduated with honors from the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines in Fairbanks (the year before it became the University of Alaska), then moved on to Yale , where she earned a Ph.D. and met her husband, Irving Rouse.
Irving and Mary Rouse raised their son, Pete, in Connecticut. He spent a few years working on Capitol Hill for Sen. James Abourezk, D-S.D., answering constituent mail alongside Daschle, another young aide. But when Daschle decided to run for Congress in 1978, Rouse took time off to get a master’s degree in public administration at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. There he met Miller, who had recently served as Alaska’s youngest-ever Senate president. Miller came home to run for lieutenant governor with Hammond for the governor’s second term.
Miller persuaded Rouse to return to his mother’s home state to work in Alaska politics. Part of the appeal was that Miller would be heir to Hammond’s moderate Republican mantle and had a good shot at becoming governor in four years.
“He was a very intelligent guy and a progressive Republican,” Rouse said of Miller, the only Republican he ever worked for. “On balance I felt he had the right vision for Alaska and the right philosophical approach.”
Rouse’s reach extended well beyond the lieutenant governor’s office. He was involved in all the governor’s major meetings on budgets and appointments, said Jerry Reinwand, who was Hammond’s chief of staff at the time.
As a workaholic senior staffer in the U.S. Senate, Rouse liked to stay quietly in the background. Media sightings of Rouse have been rare. The few stories of past years invariably note two things: his affection for cats (he has Maine coon cats at home, where he lives alone) and his nickname of “The 101st Senator,” owing to his reputation for results-oriented strategy and working across party lines.
“One of the things you will find about Pete, he keeps one of the lowest profiles going,” said McKie Campbell, a former state Fish and Game Commissioner now working for the Senate Energy Committee in Washington, who stayed friends from the Juneau days. “He’s the quiet guy who everybody listens to when he talks.”
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030209/sta_400188552.shtml
Palin also suggested that some of the problems she faced at home after the election could be traced back to Rouse.
For Palin, however, these aren’t isolated incidents. She believes they grow from the same root, which is too big and too formidable to ignore. “A lot of this comes from Washington, D.C. [...]
Palin and her Alaska circle find evidence for their suspicions about the White House in the person of Pete Rouse, who lived in Juneau for a time before he became chief of staff to a young U.S. Senator named Barack Obama. Rouse, they note, is a friend of former Alaska state senator Kim Elton, who pushed the first ethics investigation of Palin, examining her controversial firing of the state’s public-safety commissioner. Both Rouse and Elton have joined the Obama Administration.
Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/07/09/a-final-palin-post/#ixzz10ID8SehH
“Pete’s very good at looking around the corners of decisions and playing out the implications of them,” Obama told the Post during the campaign. “He’s been around long enough that he can recognize problems and pitfalls a lot quicker than others can.”
In an interview with PBS in 2008, he talked about his initial impression of Obama: “[Y]ou could tell that this guy was important to the future of the Democratic Party, in part because he’s African American, but the major reason was because he had such intelligence, insights, spark. He had the magic; you can tell he had the magic.”
Rouse was tapped by Obama in 2009 to oversee efforts to close Guantanamo Bay.
“Pete’s very smart, highly skilled, and has always been totally square in our dealings,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) told the Anchorage Daily News. “I expect we will agree on some issues and disagree on others, but having him at that level in the White House has to be good for our state.”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/09/pete-rouse-obamas-next-chief-o.html
ROUSE
The Outsider’s Insider
By Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 27, 2007
Pete Rouse is the Outsider’s Insider, a fixer steeped in the ways of a Washington that Obama has been both eager to learn and quick to publicly condemn. The meticulous workaholic rose through three decades of unglamorous legislating to become arguably the most influential Democratic aide in the Senate when he worked for then-Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.).
“His familiarity with Washington makes him somebody whose judgment I trust,” Obama said. And yet this is the Washington of “cheap political points” and “petty” partisanship that figures prominently in Obama’s public speeches these days. “I know I haven’t spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington,” Obama tells his audiences. “But I’ve been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change.”
That has made Rouse’s job of introducing Obama to Capitol Hill a complicated balancing act: He seeks to burnish Obama’s still-modest credentials as a freshman senator while preventing the talented but inexperienced politician from making the kind of mistakes that have denied every senator since John F. Kennedy the presidency. “My role,” he said with classic staffer discretion, is simply “to help him accomplish his priorities.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/26/AR2007082601446.html
Rouse ended up working as Miller’s chief of staff for the final four years of Gov. Jay Hammond’s administration.
For a while, he imagined returning to Alaska if Miller ever managed to win a race for governor. The dream faded; Miller died of bone cancer in 1989, at age 46. Rouse’s last visit to Juneau was to attend his old friend’s memorial.
Rouse continued to keep many personal ties in Alaska — along with his voter registration. In last November’s presidential race, records show, the man who would co-lead Obama’s transition team voted absentee in Juneau.
Rouse declined to discuss his voter registration.
Irving and Mary Rouse raised their son, Pete, in Connecticut. He spent a few years working on Capitol Hill for Sen. James Abourezk, D-S.D., answering constituent mail alongside Daschle, another young aide. But when Daschle decided to run for Congress in 1978, Rouse took time off to get a master’s degree in public administration at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. There he met Miller, who had recently served as Alaska’s youngest-ever Senate president. Miller came home to run for lieutenant governor with Hammond for the governor’s second term.
Miller persuaded Rouse to return to his mother’s home state to work in Alaska politics. Part of the appeal was that Miller would be heir to Hammond’s moderate Republican mantle and had a good shot at becoming governor in four years.
“He was a very intelligent guy and a progressive Republican,” Rouse said of Miller, the only Republican he ever worked for. “On balance I felt he had the right vision for Alaska and the right philosophical approach.”
Rouse’s reach extended well beyond the lieutenant governor’s office. He was involved in all the governor’s major meetings on budgets and appointments, said Jerry Reinwand, who was Hammond’s chief of staff at the time.
The Alaska years ended in disappointment, when Miller lost the 1982 Republican gubernatorial primary to conservative Anchorage Mayor Tom Fink. (Democrat Bill Sheffield went on to win the general election that year.) Rouse headed back to Washington.
“One of the things you will find about Pete, he keeps one of the lowest profiles going,” said McKie Campbell, a former state Fish and Game Commissioner now working for the Senate Energy Committee in Washington, who stayed friends from the Juneau days. “He’s the quiet guy who everybody listens to when he talks.”
It seems unlikely that Rouse will play the same role on Alaska issues he once did in the Senate. He’s just too high up the ladder, with the White House operations and policy branches both reporting through him.
“I fix problems,” he said, explaining his new role.
Still Alaska veterans in Washington are glad to have him there. A big fan was former Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska, who praised Rouse on the Senate floor in 1999. Others interviewed in recent weeks, including John Katz, the longtime head of the state’s Washington office, spoke about his long value to Alaska.
It was because of Rouse that Obama was the only presidential candidate to speak about Alaska’s natural gas pipeline before the primaries began, said former Gov. Tony Knowles, a Democrat, who got help from Rouse during his unsuccessful 2004 campaign for the U.S. Senate.
One of Rouse’s best friends in Alaska is state Sen. Kim Elton, D-Juneau. Rouse was the one who recruited Elton, a former journalist, into politics to work for Miller. Elton said Rouse is always eager for e-mailed photos of Romeo, the black wolf often photographed around Juneau.
Elton said he followed the presidential race through Rouse, backing Obama early on the strength of his friend’s endorsement. But he told Rouse he couldn’t talk about Palin once she was named to the Republican ticket. As chairman of the Legislative Council, Elton played a central role in the Legislature’s “Troopergate” investigation of the governor, which Republicans complained was being run by Obama supporters.
“It was awkward, because I usually love to talk about things like that,” Elton said.
When Elton and his wife traveled east for the inauguration, they stayed with Rouse. Now Elton is under consideration for a high-level appointment as a special assistant on Alaska issues in the Interior Secretary’s office.
Rouse said keeping up with Alaska friends has helped keep his affection for the place strong.
“The other thing I always say about Alaskans is, once you make a friend in Alaska, you make a friend for life,” he said.
Our girly-man POTUS is scared of our girl Sarah.
Flopping Aces offers evidence that Obama campaign staffers conspired to file phony ethics complaints to help derail Sarah Palin’s candidacy in 2008
Obama adviser Pete Rouse, whose office sits between those of Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, is an Alaska native.
UPDATED! Alinsky Perfected Pt VIII: The ties that bind..
Alaskan pols, Obama advisors and bloggers relationships revealed
Posted by: MataHarley @ 1:09 am in Sarah Palin, Trials and Tribulations, Troopergate
A serious H/T is needed here to the Naked Emperor News video news site for compiling the various news clips, and tying the gang of ethics complainants together in a tidy little package with a bow.
[Mata Musing: Naked Emperor is one upping themselves here, as they were also responsible for digging up all of Obama’s historic statements on what he *really* wants for America’s health care... a single payer system.]
Naked Emperor posted their “EthicsGate” YouTube link, and the Alaskan Bloggers again ganged up to get it removed from YouTube. This would be the same group that whined when Palin fingered them, and are now circling the wagons around the “divorce rumor” source; outed kindergarten/elementary school assistant teacher with a penchant for vicious gossip, Jesse Griffin… aka Gryphen.
There’s a notice/disclaimer on their site:
Troopergate’s Legislative Investigation, led by Kim Elton, Alaska Dem Senator… close friends with Obama Sr. advisor, Pete Rouse. Plus former Gov. Tony Knowles, forming a neat political triangle.
Linda Kellen Biegel, Deputy Treasurer of Alaskans for Truth
Kim Chatman, “independent concerned Alaskan”…
Valerie Henning (wife of Zane Henning, who filed a complaint)
Sondra Thompkins, “independent concerned Alaskan”…
And the blogger/radio media cheerleaders who gave them face and air time, Shannyn Moore; Jeanne “Mudflats” Devon (big supporter of Andree McLeod); and Camille Conte (aka CC), chairman of the Alaskans for Truth and host of “Demo Memo” radio show where they discussed revenge strategy on air, trumped up stories together about rape stats that did not reflect the truth.
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UPDATE: Aug 3rd, PM
Jeanne “Mudflats” Devon has taken to her own Alinsky brand of ammo for damage control in response to Naked Emperor’s video… by embedding the video herself as bold “proof” the “cabal” fears not it’s public view.
I found it particularly Interesting she uses a player that does not allow that same video to be shared, or allow the user to pick up the embed code. Was that deliberate, in order to keep the video confined to her own adoring following? Or was she unaware that YouTube has a share-friendly version? Who knows… much more important, who cares. But it was a notable observation that belies her “here it is, I’m not afraid!” attempt.
Ms. Mudflats weaves a rather listless and condescending tale – which she calls a parable – of good guy “village scribes” (aka the Alaskan progressive blogging cabal) and “those guys” from the hills.
More...
SARAH PALIN 26 OBAMA’S ALASKA MAFIA “ZERO”!
Gary P.
Published 04/29/2010 - 5:15 a.m. CST
Remember, two of Obama’s closest advisers, Pete Rouse, and the infamous Anita Dunn are both from Alaska. Both know all about Sarah. Dunn was one of the first ones sounding alarm bells.
Within days of the announcement that Sarah had joined the McCain ticket, Barack Obama personally reached out to the Alaska Troopers Union to discuss the bogus “Troopgate” nonsense that was brewing. Obama then set his Senate Chief-of-Staff, Pete Rouse, who is now a White House adviser, in motion.
Rouse contacted his former colleague Senator Kim Elton. Elton and Hollis French, along with a couple of other far left Marxist-democrats turned a small dispute over the firing of a insubordinate department head into a three ring circus, complete with a kangaroo court.
This went from a story about Walt Monegan, the head of the Dept of Public Safety, to a story about Palin’s deranged brother-in-law who was drunk on the job, got caught poaching (a serious deal in Alaska), tazered his step son, and threatened the lives of Sarah’s sister, her dad, as well as Sarah herself. Oh, and as far as I know, the trooper, Michael Wooten, is still a state trooper to this day.
The witch hunt became so absurd that sane members of the party wanted nothing to do with it, and a serious revolt was brewing in the legislature. Of course, Elton, French, Beth Kerttula, Steven Branchflower, etc., were all promising something so terrible, it would end up with Sarah’s impeachment.
Now bear in mind, Walt Monegan was an “at will” employee. An appointed position. In other words, the Governor could fire him for any reason, or no reason at all. You serveat the pleasure of the Governor. Period.
In the end, just a few days before the presidential election, the “Branchflower Report” was rushed in front of the world wide media. The promised “October surprise.”
The kangaroo court, of course, claimed that Sarah had somehow overstepped her bounds by firing a guy that, by law, she could fire at any time, without cause. One should know, before Monegan was shown the door, even though he was insubordinate, continually trying to do end runs around Palin’s budget slashing measures designed to put Alaska back on solid footing, even with all of that, Sarah offered the guy the opportunity to take another position. He refused.
Within days of the bogus “Branchflower Report” an independent investigator for the Alaska State Personnel Board looked at the findings. Timothy Petamenos, the investigator, found that not only had Obama’s people wrongfully accused and “found” Sarah guilty, Branchflower actually hid evidence that proved Sarah was innocent of the alleged issue: Trying to force Monegan to fire Wooten, a guy who deserved to be in jail, not just fired.
Branchflower suppressed witness testimony, e-mails, and more. As if Branchflower and Co. weren’t big enough jokes, Petamenos also found they had cited the wrong statues to “convict” Sarah in the first place!
The so-called “reprimand” Sarah received was then overturned by the Alaska Personnel Board, clearing Sarah of any wrong doing.
Of course, the dirty deed was done. This had stirred up just enough dust, only days before the election, to hurt McCain/Palin and help Obama. By the way, for those that don’t know, this is was first election that Obama had ever won outright. He used dirty tricks to have his opponent “disqualified” when he ran for the Illinois Senate, and of course his minions caused all sort of problems for Senator Ryan, and his ex-wife, actress Jeri Ryan, forcing him to withdraw, giving Obama what amounted to a bye-run into the U.S. Senate. Typical Chicago thug politics.
As a payoff for a “job well done” just weeks after Obama was sworn in as President, he quietly appointed Kim Elton to a make work job at the U.S. Department of Interior. Chicago pay-for-play at it’s finest.
Of course, this insanity didn’t stop there. The Obama regime, and his thug supporters knew they had awakened a Mama Grizzly. They also knew that Sarah Palin was a huge hit with the American people. I mean think about it, when have you ever seen a group run a TV ad, during the Superbowl, to thank the vice presidential candidate from the losing ticket?
This scared the hell out of the Marxist-democrats. They know Sarah’s proclivity of going after corruption, and Obama is the absolute epitome of the corrupt politician. They also saw the crowds Sarah drew, and the strong favorable emotions America had toward her, despite the best lies their media partners had thrown out there..
Now one of the things Obama’s right hand man, Pete Rouse had done was help set up the “Wasilla Project” with a bunch of radical leftists in Alaska. A small but seriously vile group of losers. Several of them were hate filled bloggers Shannyn Moore and Jeanne Devon. These two were afforded access to the sewage dump known as the Huffington Post, As vile as that place is, it is mainstream for members of the Marxist-democrat party, and Obama’s media partners at ABC, CBS, NBC, and so on, link to the site all of the time.
These two bloggers, and a handful more, including the “Official DNC Blogger For Alaska” Linda Kellen Biegel, used their access to so-called “legitimate” media to spread multiple lies on almost a daily basis, including the incredibly vile and hateful lie that Sarah’s new baby, Trig, was not really hers. They continually attacked Sarah with this nonsense, and had all sorts of sick “fun” photoshopping the kid and saying the vilest of vile things. These were published in HuffPo, and widely distributed. Some of these nimrods turned “Trig Trutherism” into a cottage industry.
Well, That didn’t work either. Sarah was still standing strong. In fact, Sarah had already started going after Obama and his destructive, anti-American ways. It was quite clear Sarah didn’t like the course Obama put the country on, and wasn’t going to just sit back and watch it happen.
Early on Sarah established herself as the leading voice of reason, while the feckless men of the GOP were still admiring the crease of Obama’s pants. As we have seen over the last year or so, Sarah Palin is not someone who just sits back. She is every bit the “Sarahcuda” who helped her team win a championship, playing on a broken ankle.
So, phase two was started. The Alaska Mafia © as I have taken to calling them, started recruiting folks to help file never ending “ethics complaints” Alaska has some really quirky laws. For example, anyone can file a complaint for any reason, with no consequences if it is found to be frivolous. Even crazier, while the law protects legislators, it does not protect the executive! You don’t even have to use a real name to file these things, one of these complaints were filed under the name of a soap oprah character!
MUCH, MUCH MORE HERE...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/world/americas/06iht-06rouse.17571829.html
Is otherwise known for: His love of cats. In his Senate office, a calendar is among several items featuring felines. ( Daschle once told a reporter that the best way to curry favor with Rouse was to “get him sort of a cat gift of some kind.” Asked about that, Rouse said cats were “a good conversation piece to go to when you don’t want to talk about what other people want to talk about.”)
Biography includes: Born April 15, 1946, in New Haven ... his mother was Japanese, his father was white ... graduated from Colby College in 1968 and received a master’s degree from the London School of Economics in 1970 ... is single and lives in Washington.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_12/005275.php
December 7, 2004
By: Amy Sullivan
OFF TO A GOOD START....The future just keeps getting brighter for Barack Obama. Pete Rouse, chief of staff to outgoing Democratic Leader has just agreed to head up Obama’s Senate office, bringing instant credibility and invaluable institutional knowledge to the operation. And he also provides a connection to the new crop of leaders on the Democratic side—Rouse once served as incoming whip Dick Durbin’s CoS in the House.
A Hill veteran who started out answering constituent mail along with fellow legislative assistant Tom Daschle, Rouse is so well-respected for his political skills and knowledge that he’s often referred to as the 101st Senator. Obama will be fortunate to have Pete’s steady hand at the helm, particularly given the enormous expectations that will accompany him into office.
Pete used to hassle me after I left Daschle’s office for divinity school, asking me every time I came back, “So, have you learned to walk on water yet?” I would explain that, no, that came in the second semester; we learned to turn water into wine first. At the risk of ruining the gruff front he puts up, he’s not only one of the sharpest people I’ve ever worked with, but one of the sweetest as well. It’s good to see him land in a position that will make continued good use of his political ability. As for Obama, I think I speak for all Daschle alums when I say: Learn to love cats. Or at least talking about Pete’s cats. We’ve found cat-shaped sugar cookies to be well-received. Just saying...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/07/obamas-team-of-no-sleep-w_n_155860.html
The New Republic:
After 37 years on Capitol Hill, Pete Rouse, Barack Obama’s Senate chief of staff cum White House senior adviser-in-waiting, is known for three things: his mastery of the job (as former Senate minority leader Tom Daschle’s chief of staff, Rouse became known as “the 101st senator”); the loyalty he inspires among those who have worked with him (whose numbers are legion); and the cats. Two big, silky Maine Coons named Moose and Junior, Rouse’s beloved felines are a source of affectionate humor among current and former colleagues. The gruff 62-year-old keeps photos of the kitties scattered around his office. He obsesses about their well-being (when Moose’s predecessor, Earl, passed away in 2003, Rouse was bereft), is a sucker for cat-themed knickknacks, and has guided fellow staffers into adopting their own furry friends (Maine Coons, naturally). Some observers suggest, ever so gently, that Rouse’s cat devotion is related to his lack of a personal life. A legendary workaholic in a town where the competition for that distinction is fierce, the (unmarried, childless) Rouse is said to have little time for outside-the-office distractions. There’s his occasional Friday night out for an Ivy League hockey game and the one week of summer vacation in August. But, beyond that, Rouse is all about the job. “Pete Rouse is always working,” e-mails one fan/colleague. “The first one in the office and the last one to leave.” It is a long-term lifestyle that only a cat could love.
http://www.aksenate.org/french/031309_legislative_update.htm
The highlight of the trip was a meeting at the White House with Pete Rouse, whose job title is “Senior Advisor to the President.” Pete has a long history with Alaskan issues, as outlined in a recent Anchorage Daily News story. Read it here. I had spoken with Pete a few times on the phone over the years, and when I called and asked for an appointment, he made time for me and two colleagues, Rep. Les Gara and Senator Bill Wielechowski.
With Senior Advisor to President Obama- and former Juneau resident- Pete Rouse
After we passed through the very tight security post, we were pointed towards the West Wing entrance and walked the short distance unescorted. We stopped and took photos, and then went in to meet Pete. Just down the hall from the Oval Office,
Rouse know alot....Could be a dangeous people if he weren’t so loyal.
You guys have dug up some great stuff on Mr. Rouse and the whole web of thugs,liars and crooks. Well done!
I am getting “forbidden to see” on that link!
My gosh, thanks very much, kcvl!
I’ve spent the last twoenty minutes reading everything.
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