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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (409074)	5/24/2003 10:15:25 PM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I didn't find it in there but there was a reference to what you are talking about here: cnn.com "Counsel steered Bush out of jury duty In announcing his appointment of Gonzales, Bush called the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court "a distinguished lawyer." "I am very grateful," said Gonzales, who grew up in a two-bedroom house with seven siblings. Gonzales was born in San Antonio, Texas, and raised in Houston, Texas. He is a graduate of Texas public schools, Rice University and Harvard Law School. He called Bush a man of "unparalleled integrity." Gonzales helped Gov. Bush get out of jury duty in a 1996 DUI case. Jury service could have forced Bush to disclose that he had pleaded guilty to drunken driving in Maine in 1976, a fact that was not revealed until late in the campaign. Gonzales, then the governor's general counsel, argued that Bush could not serve on the jury because he might be called on to make a clemency decision in the case. Bush later appointed Gonzales secretary of state and then Supreme Court justice. "