Hispanic nominated to be Attorney General

elchrist · Posted: 24 Jan 2005 03:38 PM Post subject:

Gonzales: Did He Help Bush Keep His DUI Quiet?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6857224/site/newsweek/

Jan. 31 issue - Senate Democrats put off a vote on White House counsel Alberto Gonzales's nomination to be attorney general, complaining he had provided evasive answers to questions about torture and the mistreatment of prisoners. But Gonzales's most surprising answer may have come on a different subject: his role in helping President Bush escape jury duty in a drunken-driving case involving a dancer at an Austin strip club in 1996. The judge and other lawyers in the case last week disputed a written account of the matter provided by Gonzales to the Senate Judiciary Committee. "It's a complete misrepresentation," said David Wahlberg, lawyer for the dancer, about Gonzales's account.

Bush's summons to serve as a juror in the drunken-driving case was, in retrospect, a fateful moment in his political career: by getting excused from jury duty he was able to avoid questions that would have required him to disclose his own 1976 arrest and conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) in Kennebunkport, Maine—an incident that didn't become public until the closing days of the 2000 campaign. (Bush, who had publicly declared his willingness to serve, had left blank on his jury questionnaire whether he had ever been "accused" in a criminal case.) Asked by Sen. Patrick Leahy to describe "in detail" the only court appearance he ever made on behalf of Bush, Gonzales—who was then chief counsel to the Texas governor—wrote that he had accompanied Bush the day he went to court "prepared to serve on a jury." While there, Gonzales wrote, he "observed" the defense lawyer make a motion to strike Bush from the jury panel "to which the prosecutor did not object." Asked by the judge whether he had "any views on this," Gonzales recalled, he said he did not.

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Radiodude · Posted: 01 Feb 2005 12:22 PM Post subject:

Its intresting how democracts want the Bush administration to fail. They will accuse Gonzales of anything just to give him a hard time. It increible how liberals have highjacked the democratic party and try create a county they can't and will never have. Democrats can't get over the fact the BUSH WON THE ELECTION AND THEY LOST. America wanted Bush, not Kerry and now they are going againt s Rice and Gonzales. I hope democrats don't wine later of how more hispanics vote republican instead of them. Those liberal democrats dont know what bi-partisanship is anymore but regardless of this Gonzales will be confirmed!

elchrist · Posted: 01 Feb 2005 02:33 PM Post subject:

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Radiodude · Posted: 14 Feb 2005 11:15 AM Post subject:

ARRIBA LA RAZA CABRONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gonzales was sworn today as new attorney general.

Good luck Mr. Gonzales we needed someone like you at the white house. You are a true inspirnation for many hispanics and a true leader for all of us.

You proved that the American dream is alive for minorities.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/31/politics/main670539.shtml