Conservative Mag: GOP Secretly Funneled Millions To Lieberman...

Insight Magazine September 5, 2006 at 06:44 PM
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The White House funneled millions of dollars through major Republican Party contributors to Sen. Joseph Lieberman�s primary campaign in a failed effort to ensure the support of the former Democrat for the Bush administration.

A senior GOP source said the money was part of Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove's strategy to maintain a Republican majority in the Senate in November. The source said Mr. Rove, together with Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, directed leading pro-Bush contributors to donate millions of dollars to Mr. Lieberman's campaign for re-election in Connecticut in an attempt that he would be a "Republican-leaning" senator.

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