On SusanG's most recent thread, there was a link found to Bobby Eberle on, of all things, a pro wrestling GOP site. On that page was a bio of Bobby Eberle...
"Bobby Eberle was just featured in USA Weekend Magazine as one of 5 new Political Powerbrokers.... He served as President of the Houston Young Republicans, the Director of Club Development of the Texas Young Republican Federation, and as a three-term State Chairman of the Texas Young Republican Federation. On the national level, Bobby served as Chairman of the State Chairmen's Association. Most recently, Bobby served as Vice Chairman at Large of the Young Republican National Federation, Inc."
http://www.prowrestlingrepublicans.com/aboutus.shtml
Am I imagining things (or maybe this bio infomation is all wrong) or did that bio list Bobby Eberle as one of the top people nationally in the Young Republicans? And the Texas GOP is denying they know a guy who was their 3 time state chair of Texas Young Republicans?
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Well... all that Young Republican talk, along with some mentions of issues of fundraising scams he ran in relation to the POW-MIAs, and some animal groups, I'm wondering if Eberle was involved with the scams the College Republicans pulled this year.
"... The College Republican National Committee has raised $6.3 million this year through an aggressive and misleading fund-raising campaign that collected money from senior citizens who thought they were giving to the election efforts of President Bush and other top Republicans.
Many of the top donors were in their 80s and 90s. The donors wrote checks -- sometimes hundreds and, in at least one case, totaling more than $100,000 -- to groups with official sounding-names such as "Republican Headquarters 2004," "Republican Elections Committee" and the "National Republican Campaign Fund."
But all of those groups, according to the small print on the letters, were simply projects of the College Republicans, who collected all of the checks.
And little of the money went to election efforts.
Of the money spent by the group this year, nearly 90 percent went to direct-mail vendors and postage expenses, according to records filed with the Internal Revenue Service.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002075044_repubs28m.html
Direct mail vendors, huh? Isn't that Eberle and Rove's specialty?
I'm afraid I'll need help with story getting this any further. It's a beginning, though.