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Truthdig
October 11, 2017
Working with Bush2, Karl Rove and Dick Cheney, Ohio's first African-American secretary of state unleashed a veritable barrage dirty tricks to take the Buckeye ... They were all managed by Michael Connell, a Bush family high-tech consultant running Ohio's vote count under a no-bid contract from Blackwell.
Truth-Out
June 24, 2015
The servers in that basement also housed the emails of Karl Rove and the Republican Party. (The Bush family IT specialist in charge, Michael Connell, was deposed a day before Election Day 2008, then died in a mysterious small plane crash a month later.) By 2 am, when the data flow somehow resumed,Ãâà...
Port Huron Times Herald
October 18, 2014
About 120 years ago, after the opening of the original St. Clair River Tunnel, a civic booster with a literary flair described Port Huron as "the Silver Gateway to the Golden West." Over the generations, Port Huron has trotted out many other nicknames, including Sawmill City, Matchstick City, City of Industry,Ãâà...
OpEdNews
December 26, 2013
Michael Connell, the Bush family and Karl Rove's IT guru, was heading home from Washington D.C. to attend his company's Christmas party on ... A long-time, outspokenly loyal associate of the Bush family, Connell created the Bush-Cheney website for their 2000 presidential campaign and may haveÃâà...
Democracy Now
September 11, 2012
Siegelman and his supporters say he was the target of a plot, in part orchestrated by former Bush administration deputy Karl Rove, for belonging to the Democratic Party in a state with a Republican majority. “No one wants to go to prison for something that is not a crime, and especially one orchestrated byÃâà...
truthout
July 25, 2011
The filing also includes the revealing deposition of the late Michael Connell. Connell served as the IT guru for the Bush family and Karl Rove. Connell ran the private IT firm GovTech that created the controversial system that transferred Ohio's vote count late on election night 2004 to a partisan RepublicanÃâà...
Huffington Post (blog)
December 25, 2008
After first emerging as a web consultant during the 1998 gubernatorial campaign of Jeb Bush, Connell quickly became a key member of the Republican brain trust and quickly became part of a small network of political consultants and lobbyists favored by Rove. He advised both Bush-Cheney campaigns,Ãâà...
Democracy Now
December 22, 2008
Michael Connell was the chief IT consultant to Karl Rove and created websites for the Bush and McCain electoral campaigns. ... Velvet Revolution, a non-profit investigating Connell's activities, revealed this weekend that Connell had recently said he was afraid George Bush and Dick Cheney would “throwÃâà...
The Plain Dealer
December 31, 1999
A self-made computer geek in Ohio uses his Internet savvy to help one of the most powerful Republican dynasties in U.S. history keep its grip on the White House even as voters turn against the family and its support for an unpopular war. Political enemies later of theclaim the computer expert helped theÃâà...
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