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*''The Nashua Advocate'' reported February 20, 2005, that [http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/credible-evidence-emerges-that-jeff.html "Credible Evidence Emerges That Jeff Gannon Coordinated With the G.O.P. to Bring Down Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) in 2004 Election."]
::"''The National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman singled out South Dakota Senator-elect [[John Thune]] (R) for special praise, noting that he ousted the first leader of either party running for reelection in over 50 years. He had previously said that beating Daschle would be like picking up three seats [in the U.S. Senate].'' -- "Jeff Gannon", November 17th, 2004 (Talon News)
:"South Dakota is a long way from Washington, D.C.--which makes it, perhaps, no surprise that this story has taken so much longer to hit the mainstream media in significant fashion than the more spectacular fact that the man at the center of said story is a gay prostitute/anti-gay Republican activist and worked, until recently, as a "reporter" at the White House."
:Also see Joe Conason, [http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2005/02/18/gannon/ "Gannon: The early years,"] ''Salon'', February 18, 2005: "Before he was buttering up Bush at White House press conferences, 'Jeff Gannon' was doing the GOP's dirty work in attacking Tom Daschle."
*Keith Oberman, writing February 20, 2005, for MSNBC.MSN.com in [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/ "Separating the Gannons from the Guckerts"] relates:
:"Gannon told [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6999385/site/newsweek/ ''Newsweek''] that he is contemplating 'suing liberal interest groups, bloggers, and others,' for what he termed '[[political assassination]].' Don’t see that in the statutes anywhere.
:"He is presumably pondering some sort of libel action, or perhaps he harbors some vague hope of proving [[invasion of privacy]]. This would, of course, require that what’s been said about him isn’t true (though he hasn’t denied it), and was maliciously published or broadcast by people who knew it wasn’t true or made no effort to confirm or refute it. Of course, he had told ''Editor & Publisher'' last week that he would no longer talk to the media, then followed that up five days later by a complaint to the same magazine that nobody was trying to contact him (and in the same interview denied he was giving an interview with [[CNN]], an interview which he taped about an hour later).
:"There certainly do seem to be enough personality elements floating around in there to constitute two separate fellows. Neither of them seems to know a lot about the media, or about communications law."
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===Current Status===
'''Call for Investigation'''
*John Byrne, ''The Raw Story'', reported February 23, 2005, that [http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=121 "Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid to join call for Gannon investigation."
*John Byrne, ''The Raw Story'', reported February 22, 2005, that the[http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=117 "Democratic leadership joins call for Gannon inquiry; Whip calls on members to join push"]:
::The letter followed a call by Senator [[Frank R. Lautenberg]] (D-NJ) for the White House "to turn over all documentation relating to Gannon's credentialing."
*Dotty, Lynch, [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/opinion/lynch/main675050.shtml "Rove-Gannon Connection?,"] CBS News, February 18, 2005:
