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1. Shorten considerably the information on the Plame affair or summarize it thoroughly on the main page and offload its full contents to a daughter article
2. Gather controversies into one short section at end.
3. expand article with new sections to separate out the first and second administrations and Rove's roles in each.
4. Make section on mid-term elections in both administrations. Malke 2010 ( talk) 21:33, 21 December 2009 (UTC) reply

This section has been relocated from the Karl Rove biography entry because it is large enough to warrant its own space. Malke 2010 ( talk) 14:59, 22 November 2009 (UTC) reply

I'm removing the graphic because it makes it seem that Rove resigned as a result of this controversy and that is not true. Malke 2010 ( talk) 20:11, 21 December 2009 (UTC) reply

The article as it stands now, reads like a scandal sheet and does not have any information about Rove's work in the White House, and undue weight is given to the mid-term elections, etc. This whole article needs a top-down rewrite. I've shortened the Valerie Plume section and deleted all the Matthew Cooper material as it is undue weight and does not contribute anything. It's long-winded. I'll be adding material on Rove's positions in the first Bush administration, and adding new sections as well. Malke 2010 ( talk) 08:28, 28 December 2009 (UTC) reply

I'm going to remove the Abramoff passage since there aren't any legitimate sources to back this up. I've searched the articles and books and can't find anything. This passage looks like original research/NPOV. There's no eye witness that Rove was with Abramoff or that he had any discussions with Abramoff, who by the way, as part of his fraudulent practices, routinely made such claims to clients to make them believe he was working on their behalf every minute of the day with powerful people. Malke 2010 ( talk) 18:17, 28 December 2009 (UTC) reply

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