Bush has named the lawyer that represented him when he needed to
get out of jury duty in a Travis County DWI case to be his counsel in
the White House. Al Gonzales was the lawyer who spoke for Bush
inside the Travis County Court House in 1997 while Bush was speaking
to reporters outside. Inside, Gonzales was telling the judge and the
lawyers on both sides that Bush, as Governor, would be unable to
serve on the DWI jury, while Bush, outside the court house, was
telling reporters that it is every citizen's duty to serve on a jury and
he would be proud to do so. In the last week of the campaign we
learned that Bush was unwilling to serve as juror because his own
DWI conviction would have been exposed, possibly wrecking his
chances at a run for the presidency. Since, in 1997 Gonzales said Bush
coulden't serve because of his office, rather than his previous DWI
conviction that he didn't want to be made public, the prosecutor of
the DWI case now has said that Bush, thorough Gonzales, used his
office for a personal coverup. --Politex, 12/15/00
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