Nick Juliano, Raw Story
Former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie, who is reportedly being considered as a replacement for White House aide Dan Bartlett, may have had early knowledge of a criminal probe into a potential state Senate candidate in Virginia, where Gillespie is now head of the Republican Party, according to a Virginia political blog.
Blogger Ben Tribbett tells the Washington Post that he was told about indictments against candidate Mark D. Tate before they were released. In a timeline on his blog, he implies Gillespie, who supports Tate’s opponent, also knew of the indictments in advance.
“Tate and others have also questioned why party insiders — including Gillespie — seemed to have prior knowledge of the investigation,” Sandhya Somashekhar reports for the post. “More than three weeks before the grand jury was to decide, Gillespie called Tate and asked him to consider dropping out, Tate said.”
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