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"Though President Bush has promised to rebuild the region with more than $200 billion in aid, it remains to be seen just how committed his administration is. That Bush appointed his main political adviser Karl Rove as the Gulf Coast reconstruction czar doesn’t inspire much confidence, given Rove’s well-documented history of turning even the most trivial matter into a political sideshow."

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/10022005/editoria/66060.htm

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"Who's in Charge? Karl Rove! By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Thursday, September 15, 2005; 12:00 PM All you really need to know about the White House's post-Katrina strategy -- and Bush's carefully choreographed address on national television tonight -- is this little tidbit from the ninth paragraph of Elisabeth Bumiller and Richard W. Stevenson's story in the New York Times this morning: "Republicans said Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff and Mr. Bush's chief political adviser, was in charge of the reconstruction effort.""

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/09/15/BL2005091501098.html

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"Republicans said Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff and Mr. Bush's chief political adviser, was in charge of the reconstruction effort, which reaches across many agencies of government and includes the direct involvement of Alphonso R. Jackson, secretary of housing and urban development."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/15/politics/15bush.html?ex=1128571200&en=d0bbe9e1b93c09b9&ei=5070

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