NOV 9 20091. Exclusive: Mike Connell's Family Copes With His Mysterious Death,
Tipsters, Legal Options
2. Democrats still looking for U.S. Attorney for Montgomery
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1. Exclusive: Mike Connell's Family Copes
With His Mysterious Death, Tipsters, Legal
Options
by Rebecca M. Abrahams for the Brad Blog
On December 18, 2008, Bush IT expert Mike Connell, a highly skilled
pilot, was killed in a sudden crash while flying his small aircraft from
Washington DC to his Akron/Canton home airport. The cause of the
crash is still unknown and under investigation by the National
Transportation Safety Board.
For more than ten months, Connell's family has been coping with
feelings of disbelief, anger and confusion and has many unanswered
questions about the man they knew and loved.
For Connell's widow Heather, holding her husband's New Media
consulting firm together is a daily struggle.
....."I have spent days and days and days trying to figure it all out. I
don't think he would lie to me. Number one, I don't think he took the
threats seriously. I never heard 'Don't fly.' I never knew my husband
as Bush's IT guru. He built lots of Republican websites… He built Jeb's
site, George's site, George's 2nd site --- his campaign sites. I don't
know what involvement he had with SmartTech. That I don't know. I
just knew what sites he built. SmartTech was the big hosting center.
Everything was hosted at SmartTech. That's where the access would
be --- not at New Media. I was signing lots of checks for hosting fees,
huge payments to SmartTech for hosting websites that New Media
built."
The King-Lincoln lawsuit maintains the results of the 2004 election
were routed through SmartTech servers in Chattanooga, Tennessee
on Election Night before being rerouted back to Ohio's then-Secretary
of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, an Evangelical Christian and former Co-
Chair of the Bush/Cheney Ohio Campaign. Blackwell's office claims
this transfer was necessary due to a tabulation server overload at
State election headquarters in Columbus that night. Connell's other
company, GovTech was hired by the State of Ohio to build election
night servers and GovTech subcontracted work to SmarTech.
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2. Democrats still looking for U.S. Attorney
for Montgomery
By Mary Orndorff of The Birmingham News (Al.com)
In January, an advisory panel appointed by Davis, the top Democrat
in the congressional delegation, recommended former Mobile
prosecutor Michel Nicrosi as first choice and Montgomery lawyer
Joseph Van Heest second, for the Middle District prosecutor job.
But Alabama's Republican senators, who ultimately would vote on the
nominations, indicated they were not supportive. So five or six more
possible candidates were approached but declined to be considered,
Davis said. He declined to discuss their names but said there were
varying reasons they did not agree to be candidates, such as not
wanting to leave their successful private practices, disrupt their state
retirement or return to the federal judicial system.
Davis said Thursday he is holding out hope that Sen. Richard Shelby,
R-Ala., will drop his objection to Van Heest, a former federal public
defender whom he believes has "superb credentials" to be U.S.
attorney.
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