A dozen readers have submitted the story of the death in a plane crash of Mike Connell, Karl Rove's IT adviser, the man who set up and ran the gwb43.com mail server, and an consequential figure in GOP tech circles since 1997. The closest thing to pure reporting to be found in a normal media outlet is a piece from KDKA in Pittsburgh giving a finicky backgrounder on Connell's work for Rove, two generations of the Bush family, and many GOP congressmen and committees. CBSNews.com is now mirroring the KDKA reporting. Almost all the early media 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt issue company. all rights reserved.cite this source synonym stock v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico publishing group comes from the left and some of it is frankly conspiratorial. Among the milder pieces (although it could not be called balanced) is this talk with Mark Crispin Miller, NYU tutor



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and author of two books about the 2004 ticket in Ohio. Connell was compelled to testify on the day before the US advance poll in a lawsuit involving Ohio decision irregularities in 2004. Connell, an seasoned pilot, died on Sunday when his plane crashed two miles short of the runway of Akron-Canton Airport in Ohio.

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