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kiki wrote on May 23, 2007 1:03 PM:

This is big news in Missouri, where Graves has been attempting to portray himself as a victim. The most likely reason for the investigation is Governor Matt Blunt's fee office scandal. Senator Bond's office admitted they had contaced DoJ suggesting Graves be replaced over it, and Bud Cummins was investigating the fee office scandal at the time he was asked to step down.

As much as many want to see voter fraud be a major issue, a lot of us in Missouri would love to see the fee office scandal come back to life. It looks like Goodling might have just helped make that happen.

whskyjack wrote on May 23, 2007 1:52 PM:

"The most likely reason for the investigation is Governor Matt Blunt's fee office scandal. Senator Bond's office admitted they had contaced DoJ suggesting Graves be replaced over it,"

This sounds more reasonable , than voter fraud. After all, Graves was not just some no name person that could easily be shunted aside, he is a brother to Congressman Sam Graves. However Majority leader, Roy Blunt trumps a mere congressman and his boy is Missouri governor, Matt Blunt.

"Bud Cummins was investigating the fee office scandal at the time he was asked to step down"

Hummmm, interesting, This would tie the Cummings dismisal into the same pattern of firing proscutor that were investigating corruption of Republicans in high places.

Jack

Anonymous wrote on May 23, 2007 2:23 PM:

cummins was investigating the fe scandal, which wa being run out of the law offices of Mark F. "Thor" Hearne, who had been both Blunt's right-hand legal man for some time; as well as a GOP point man in Florida in 2000 (but who wasn't?); as well as the Bush/Cheney '04 general counsel in Missouri (at the specific, personal request of Dubya's uncle, Bucky Bush,
before he then became the Bush/Cheney '04 national general counsel; and after the election, he became the founder of the scam "non-partisan" GOP front group calling itself "American Center for Voting Rights" (ACVR); which was, in turn, behind virtually every report, initiative, claim, piece of legislation, Congressional testimony, legal case, "official commission," or public statement concerning the cooked-up case for the mythical epidemic of Democratic "voter fraud.
( Source: bradblog 4/23/2007 4:20AM )

And, even better, same source states Cummins was repeatedly called abuot the investigation by
William B. Mateja of the D.C./Dallas law firm of Fish & Richardson, who had/has a long history of ties directly with DOJ and WH.

the blog story sums up:
So here we have a top Dallas-based attorney, well-connected to both the DoJ itself as well as the White House, calling a U.S. Attorney five times on behalf of clients, Blunt and L&G, both well-connected to the White House and DoJ themselves, and who are both under an investigation by that U.S. Attorney who is then terminated, for official reasons still unknown, shortly thereafter.

anybody know whre Graves went to after he resigned????

Tom Spencer wrote on May 23, 2007 3:39 PM:

Ho-hum. Been writing about this for weeks now. It's good to see that I and many others in Missouri were right about this. Also, for the umpteenth time, if Graves was really unwilling to pursue these allegations why did he sign the lawsuit against the state of Missouri? No one in the media -- neither Josh nor TPM Muckraker -- has ever taken on that rather big flaw in his story.

If you wish to read what I've written about these things, click on my blog above and click the link on top right of the page for "Tom."