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Lally, G

<p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="-1">hmmn, larouche</font></p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="-1">
</font></p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="-1">The publishers of Analytica are Stewart Cass and Grant M. Lally. Lally, a Long Island, N.Y. lawyer, is otherwise the executive director of Irish-American Republicans. He is also listed as the director of the Bay of Pigs Museum and Library, an organization whose chairman is former CIA officer Felix Rodriguez, a pivotal figure in the mid-1980s Iran-Contra fiasco and a close associate of former President George H.W. Bush.</font></p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="-1">According to a posting on the Irish-American Republicans' website, "Grant Lally is an attorney and businessman, active in the Irish community. Grant is a former Republican candidate for U.S. Congress (1994 and 1996) who signed the 'Contract With America.' He served as National Chairman of Irish-Americans for Bush-Cheney in 2000 and 2004, and as GOP Floor Manager of the 2000 Miami, Florida Presidential Election Recount. He currently serves as National Co-Chair of the Irish American Republicans, and on the National Board of the Republican National Lawyers Association."</font></p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="-1">The website further boasted that it was the Lally-led Irish American Republicans who "played a critical leadership role in the 2000 Florida vote recounts, helping to elect President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. For election night 2000, several of the Irish for Bush/Cheney leadership: Grant Lally, Jeffrey Cleary, and Judith Hard, were invited to join then-Governor George Bush at his Election Night victory rally in Austin, Texas."</font></p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="-1">The website account continued, "Following the election, the Bush Campaign summoned the Irish American Republicans to take the lead in protecting President-Elect Bush's victory in Florida, against the Gore campaign operatives' relentless efforts to steal the election." Of course, the reality is that it was the Bush-Cheney campaign, backed by the Scalia Supreme Court, that actually stole the 2000 election in Florida. Not to be deterred by the truth, the IAR site continued its account: "The IAR leaders Grant Lally, Justin Driscoll, Brian McCarthy, Jeffrey Cleary, Brendan Quinn, Kenneth Curley, Judy Hard, Josh Toas, Robert Farley, Rick Nelson, Bruce Tague, Duane Gibson, and Congressman John Sweeney (R-NY), and many others, all flew to Florida at the request of the Bush/Cheney campaign, to take the lead in the recount efforts.</font></p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="-1">"Dubbed the 'Wild Geese of Miami,' the Irish Republicans successfully fought off the attempted theft of the Presidency," the IAR lied, in the best Orwellian fashion. "Grant Lally served as the GOP Floor Manager of the Miami Recount, battling to protect the integrity of the ballots. Congressman John Sweeney served as overall Bush political director for the south Florida recount, a role for which President Bush awarded him the knickname 'Congressman Kick-Ass.'</font></p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="-1">"The Irish American Republicans played a vital role in the peaceful protest that the media dubbed the 'Brooks Brothers Riot.'&nbsp;"</font></p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="-1">Four years, later Lally and company were sent into Ohio by Karl Rove, in what would become infamous as a massive vote suppression scheme, that ultimately determined the outcome of the Bush-Kerry Presidential contest, leading to the first Congressional challenge in history to the Electoral College results in the state. The IAR website proudly reported that they played a central role in yet another election theft: "The IAR trained over 2,000 GOP poll watchers, the front line of Republican anti-fraud efforts in Ohio. The Irish American Republicans are proud of our members who played a critical role in helping to win Ohio in 2004, and ensuring that President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were returned for a second term."</font></p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="-1">Grant Lally, his father, Lally's campaign committee, and Lally's lawfirm paid a $280,000 civil penalty in 1998 for major Federal campaign finance violations in Lally's campaigns for Congress. Lally utilized a variety of deceptions to disguise the fact that he received hundreds of thousands of dollars from his father, in contravention of campaign finance limits.</font></p><h4 style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">'Special Agent, Mossad'?</font></h></h4>