From New York Times article
Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, whose possible role in the case has raised questions, was a paid consultant to three of Mr. Ashcroft's campaigns in Missouri, twice for governor and for United States senator, in the 1980's and 1990's, an associate of Mr. Rove said on Wednesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/02/polit ... &position=
Now, if you look at all the myriad ties between Florida authorities and Straight, Inc., it becomes readily aparent that a kid suffering abuse at Straight, Inc. in Florida had
nowhere to turn for help. Perhaps that's why they chose St. Pete as a base of operations and why it took nearly 2 decades to shut down the St. Pete location when most other locations were forced to at least change their names within a couple of years.
Aren't there a good many abusive, right wing fundamentalist religious boarding schools in Missouri? And haven't some of them been in operation since the days when Scary John mennaced mostly Missouri? I wonder how much influence the fundie child abusers of Missouri have with Scary John either then or now? This guy's spooky as anything! Suspicious enough when a political opponent dies in a classic Kennedy style plane crash right before the election, but then he wins anyway!! Could it be the folks of Missouri were trying to tell us something?
It will be generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant examples
--Charles Dickens
