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To: mph who wrote (252045)	5/28/2008 11:26:33 PM
From: MrLucky	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793964

I wonder who nominated him for the Communications slot. Rove??

To: mph who wrote (252045)	5/29/2008 1:26:02 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

#1--I've been out checking McClellan and his family, as well as the Publisher and Editor that supposedly helped his write his book....I think there is more than meets the eye here...let me know what all of you think...I'll have 3 posts back to back: Thus far: en.wikipedia.org Scott McClellan Scott’s mother en.wikipedia.org MSNBC – Osnos msnbc.msn.com

To: mph who wrote (252045)	5/29/2008 2:00:17 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793964

McClellan's Mother is something else again too....A long time Dem, that turned Repub for awhile, that turned Independent when it was expedient to do so....PLUS Rick Perry defeated her for Governor of Texas....Could that have mattered to Scott? Partisan affiliations In her campaigns for school board, college board, and mayor, Strayhorn was not identified by partisan affiliation since those posts are elected on a nonpartisan basis. Strayhorn was a Democrat until the mid-1980s; she served as Democratic nominee Walter Mondale's campaign chair in Travis County during the 1984 presidential election. Strayhorn switched parties and became a Republican in 1986, when she was the GOP nominee for the U.S. House seat held by J. J. Pickle. According to the Associated Press, "Strayhorn has insisted that she is [still] a Republican but is going independent to set partisan politics aside and do what's right for Texas." She has attempted to equate her independence to that of the legendary Sam Houston, who resigned as governor in 1861 to protest Texas' decision to join the Confederate States of America (and who was the only independent candidate to win election as governor of Texas). Strayhorn sometimes draws comparisons to the late Governor Ann Richards, a Democrat, although the two often found themselves on opposite ends of the political spectrum. [edit] Trivia During her stint as comptroller, when she married Strayhorn and changed her name again, it is reported that instead of ordering all new stationery and discarding the old, she simply crossed out "Rylander" on the existing stationery and replaced it with "Strayhorn", as a means of saving taxpayer funds. J. J. Pickle died on the same day, June 18, 2005, that Strayhorn announced her initial plans to enter the 2006 governor's race. Strayhorn's first husband, attorney Barr McClellan, has remarried and lives in Gulfport, Mississippi. He wrote a book alleging that Lyndon B. Johnson was a conspirator in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A week after the March 7, 2006, primary, Strayhorn picked up the support of defeated 2002 Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tony Sanchez, who signed the petition to place Strayhorn on the ballot as an independent. This means that Sanchez did not vote in the Democratic primary in Webb County. Petition signers must not have voted in the March 7 primary or the April 11 runoff primary. She played the bit role of a Sheriff in the 1980 movie Roadie starring Meat Loaf (credited as "Carole McClellan").