-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37addea03817.htm <A HREF="http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37addea03817.htm">Newsweek: Lawyer for Texas Funeral-Home Chain </A> ----- Newsweek: Lawyer for Texas Funeral-Home Chain Under State Investigation Says George W. Bush Popped in Meeting... News/Current Events News Source: PRnewswire via Drudge Published: 8/8/99 Posted on 08/08/1999 12:46:40 PDT by Brian Mosely Newsweek: Lawyer for Texas Funeral-Home Chain Under State Investigation Says George W. Bush Popped in Meeting and Asked, 'Are Those People Still Messing With You?' NEW YORK, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Gov. George W. Bush's presidential campaign denies that Bush discussed with Robert Waltrip, an old Bush friend and financial supporter, the state's investigation into Waltrip's Service Corporation International (SCI) funeral-home chain. But Johnnie B. Rogers, a lobbyist and lawyer for SCI, tells Newsweek a different story: when he and Waltrip went to Bush's office to complain about the probe, the governor popped his head in the room where they were meeting and asked, "Hey Bobby, are those people still messing with you?" (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990808/HSSU001 ) When Waltrip said they were, Rogers recalled, Bush turned to him and said, "Hey Johnnie B. Are you taking care of him?" "I'm doing my best, Governor," Rogers said he replied, according to a report by Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff in the August 16 issue (on newsstands Monday, August 9). Newsweek reports that Rogers and Waltrip had come to drop a letter at the governor's office demanding a halt to the investigation. Rogers told Newsweek that he and Waltrip were ushered in to see Joe Allbaugh, then Bush's chief of staff and now his presidential campaign manager, when Bush popped his head in during their meeting. Bush's press secretary Linda Edwards acknowledges that Bush and Waltrip had a "brief verbal exchange" but said "they did not discuss the case." Waltrip is a trustee of the George Bush Presidential Library and SCI donated more than $100,000 toward its construction, Isikoff reports. Last March, Waltrip got the former president to speak at a funeral-association convention and SCI paid the $70,000 honorarium. Waltrip also gave $10,000 to the younger Bush's 1994 gubernatorial run and SCI's political-action committee chipped in $35,000 for his 1998 re-election. (For all news releases, go to http://www.Newsweek.com, click "Pressroom." The text of articles will be online late Sunday afternoon.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Posted on 08/08/1999 12:46:40 PDT by Brian Mosely [ Reply | Top | Last ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Brian Mosely Breaking -- Newsweak continues to be a leftist shrill rag ignoring all of the Klinton's scandals. 2 Posted on 08/08/1999 12:53:43 PDT by ServesURight [ Reply | To 1 | Top | Last ] [ Refresh | Top | Last | Latest Posts | Latest Articles | Post | Abuse | Help! ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FreeRepublic , LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794 Forum Version 2.0a Copyright � 1999 Free Republic, LLC ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
