Wilson IV, the husband of the spy the White House outed. Wilson IV, the Bush I administration political appointee who did the most damage to the Bush II administration. He has kept mentally revising the obituary to keep up with the political maelstrom over Iraq policy and White House leaks that is swirling around him.Ī recent version began: "Joseph C. "īut "it seems to change," Wilson said yesterday, smiling across his desk in his Washington office. Wilson IV, who was the last American diplomat to meet with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, died. Man Behind the Furor: Wilson: Envoy With an Independent Streak (Richard Leiby, October 1, 2003, Washington Post)įormer diplomat Joseph Wilson used to tell reporters he felt certain how his obituary would read.
Posted by Orrin Judd at 11:48 PM JOE WILSON, THE MAN WHO TOOK DOWN A PRESIDENT.: We get the secret-coded VRWC newsletter and, as God is my witness, I've never seen anything in there about opposing food. All of those are Republicans, they're not Democrats." That they don't want children to go to school. It's the Republican legislators, candidates, and officials who say that they don't want to solve our community's problems. I think it's important to see who the enemy is. They are against so many of the values we have in our community. They are against the opportunity to organize labor unions. They are against access to colleges and access to schools. They don't want driver's licenses for immigrants. "People who are on the ballot - people like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom McClintock - want Proposition 187 once again. The lieutenant governor had strong words for his Republican opponents in the recall race. And I believe we need leaders who can unite, not divide, people." Why is that?" When asked if he saw this as racial discrimination, Bustamante responded: "Well, that's how it is, I think, sometimes. "No one else, just the indigenous tribal governments. "No one is asking me how much money I get from the Latino community, or from African-Americans, or from people in the Jewish community, or any other group," said Bustamante. The network has translated the interview and sent a transcript to reporters covering the campaign: "They are against food" (California Insider: A Weblog by Sacramento Bee Columnist Daniel Weintraub, September 30, 2003)Ĭruz has played the race card - in an interview in Spanish on the Univision Television Network. 12 survey Schwarzenegger was slightly behind Bustamante - Bustamante had 30 percent, Schwarzenegger had 25 percent and McClintock had 18 percent. Schwarzenegger had support from 40 percent of likely voters in Tuesday's poll, Bustamante had 32 percent and Republican state Sen. 12, that showed support for the recall apparently stalling, with 50 percent of voters supporting it and 47 percent in opposition. That was a dramatic shift from the last Times poll, released Sept. Likely voters interviewed by the Times supported the recall by a 56 percent to 42 percent margin. It was the second recent statewide survey to show Davis badly behind and Schwarzenegger in the lead. Gray Davis by a large margin in a Los Angeles Times poll released Tuesday and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger was ahead of Lt. Recall, Schwarzenegger ahead in new LA Times poll (ERICA WERNER, September 30, 2003, Associated Press) Posted by Orrin Judd at 11:53 PM RECALL FREEFALL: