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To: LindyBill who wrote (563)	5/6/2003 12:44:53 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793914

WASHINGTON IN BRIEF Tuesday, May 6, 2003; WASHINGTON POST RNC Chair Is Expected To Lead Bush Campaign Republican National Committee Chairman Marc Racicot is expected to become chairman of President Bush's reelection campaign. The leading candidate to replace him is Washington lobbyist and campaign strategist Ed Gillespie. Racicot, a former Montana governor, could assume the campaign post as soon as July when the RNC holds its mid-year meeting, said several Republican sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans had been a candidate for the campaign post, but officials said he prefers to remain in Bush's Cabinet. Officials said Gillespie had talked to White House officials about the possibility of replacing Racicot. Gillespie was strategist for last fall's campaign by Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), and has been the RNC's director of communications and congressional affairs, and spokesman for former House majority leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.). In an interview yesterday with The Washington Post, Racicot said Bush hasn't asked him to take the campaign job. "I have not spoken with the president about anything to do with reelection, so I can't give you any insight into that question, because I don't know the answer," he said. "I want to help this president however I can, but for what I know right now, I'm right in the place where I'm supposed to be." Ohio Jurist Approved For Appeals Court Post Judicial nominee Deborah Cook, denied a hearing as well as a vote by the previously Democratic-led Senate, won confirmation yesterday from the Republican-controlled Senate, 66 to 25. The Senate approved President Bush's nearly two-year-old bid to elevate the Ohio Supreme Court justice to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Cincinnati. Also yesterday, Republicans failed for a fifth time to remove a Democratic procedural hurdle against Miguel Estrada, another long-stalled judicial nominee. washingtonpost.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (563)	5/6/2003 7:33:42 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

We will be hearing a lot from Broder. He is a very good Political Reporter. I definitely agree. Always worth reading. But in recent years he's grown a bit too full of himself, more than a bit more conservative, and uncritical of "Washington" wisdom. I was struck, during the Clinton impeachment stuff, just how different the "Washington" media views and the rest of the country were. Broder is the dean, in my view, of the "Washington" views. Thus, when he talks about these candidates, I think it best to factor in his place in the media universe.