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96-467: The Conservative Victory Project was a political initiative launched in 2013 by Karl Rove , the prominent Republican political activist, and the super-PAC American Crossroads . Its purpose was to support "electable" conservative political candidates for political office in the United States. The effort was prompted by embarrassing failures of several Tea Party and independent conservative candidates in

192-570: A News extra would be published, if there were important news or a sermon that could not wait for the regular publication date. During a turbulent time period, later known as the Utah War , the News presses and equipment were moved to the central and southern parts of the state. As armed forces of the United States camped just outside the state at Fort Bridger , George Q. Cannon was assigned to take some presses and equipment to Fillmore while Henry McEwan

288-572: A joint operating agreement (JOA), where each published separate editorial material while sharing printing, advertising and circulation costs. This JOA was the brainchild of Tribune Publisher John F. Fitzpatrick who helped LDS President David O. McKay ensure the continuation of the Deseret News . As its architect, Fitzpatrick knew that this NAC arrangement would also benefit the Tribune . The Deseret News stopped Sunday publication; subscribers received

384-511: A lawsuit requesting that the US Supreme Court withhold the certified vote count from four states following the 2020 presidential election . In 2021, Utah's Senator Mike Lee demanded a retraction after a statement attributed to him (regarding a phone call held during the January 6 United States Capitol attack ), and published in the Deseret News on January 7, 2021, was brought up during

480-641: A 2002 Deseret News interview, Rove explained, "I was the Olympus High chairman for (former U.S. Sen.) Wallace F. Bennett 's re-election campaign, where he was opposed by the dynamic, young, aggressive political science professor at the University of Utah , J.D. Williams." Bennett was reelected to a third six-year term in November 1968. Through Rove's campaign involvement, Bennett's son, Robert "Bob" Foster Bennett —a future United States Senator from Utah —would become

576-516: A Houston lawyer (later President George H. W. Bush's Secretary of State). The PAC eventually became the genesis of the Bush-for-President campaign of 1979–1980. His work for Bill Clements during the Texas gubernatorial election of 1978 helped Clements become the first Republican Governor of Texas in over 100 years. Clements was elected to a four-year term, succeeding Democrat Dolph Briscoe . Rove

672-444: A Mormon immigrant from England, and a paper-maker, approached Brigham Young about using some machinery—originally meant for producing sugar—to make their own paper; Young agreed to the plan. The publishers asked everyone to donate old paper and cloth to the venture. In the summer of 1854 the first issues of the News were published on "homemade paper" that was very thick, and grayish in color. Even with paper shortages, occasionally

768-707: A Republican congressman and United States Senator . Rove operated his consulting business until 1999, when he sold the firm to take a full-time position in George W. Bush's presidential campaign. Between 1981 and 1999, Rove worked on hundreds of races. Most were in a supporting role, doing direct mail fundraising. A November 2004 Atlantic Monthly article estimated that he was the primary strategist for 41 statewide, congressional, and national races, and Rove's candidates won 34 races. Rove also did work during those years for non-political clients. From 1991 to 1996, Rove advised tobacco giant Philip Morris , and ultimately earned $ 3,000

864-538: A Republican in 1983, defeat Republican Ron Paul in the primary and Democrat Lloyd Doggett in the race for U.S. Senate. Rove handled direct-mail for the Reagan -Bush campaign. In 1986, Rove helped Clements become governor a second time. In a strategy memo Rove wrote for his client prior to the race, now among Clements' papers in the Texas A&;M University library, Rove quoted Napoleon : "The whole art of war consists in

960-413: A Sunday Tribune instead. The Deseret News also purchased the afternoon Salt Lake Telegram from the Tribune . The Telegram was discontinued, and into the mid-1960s, the paper's nameplate read: The Deseret News and Salt Lake Telegram . The 30-year agreement between the two papers was renewed in 1982, with some changes. The Newspaper Agency Corporation was renamed to MediaOne of Utah in 2007. In 1968

1056-549: A coffee break". Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean , has been quoted as saying "based on my review of the files, it appears the Watergate prosecutors were interested in Rove's activities in 1972, but because they had bigger fish to fry they did not aggressively investigate him." On September 6, 1973, three weeks after announcing his intent to investigate the allegations against Rove, George H. W. Bush chose him to be chairman of

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1152-531: A friend. Williams would later become a mentor to Rove. In the fall of 1969, Rove entered the University of Utah , on a $ 1,000 scholarship, as a political science major and joined the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Through the university's Hinckley Institute of Politics , he got an internship with the Utah Republican Party . That position, and contacts from the 1968 Bennett campaign, helped him secure

1248-414: A good time for nothing", and distributed them at rock concerts and homeless shelters, with the effect of disrupting Dixon's rally. (Dixon eventually won the election.) Rove's role would not become publicly known until August 1973 when Rove told The Dallas Morning News . In 1999 he said, "It was a youthful prank at the age of 19 and I regret it." In his memoir, Rove wrote that when he was later nominated to

1344-698: A hotly-contested run-off election, during which vandals defaced her campaign signs with swastikas due to Shapiro's Jewish faith. In 1991, United States Attorney General Dick Thornburgh resigned to run for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania , one made vacant by John Heinz 's death in a helicopter crash. Rove's company worked for the campaign, but it ended with an upset loss to Democrat Harris Wofford . Rover had been hired by an intermediary Murray Dickman to work for Thornburgh's campaign. Subsequently, Rove sued Thornburgh directly, alleging non-payment for services rendered. The Republican National Committee , worried that

1440-433: A job in 1970 on Ralph Tyler Smith 's unsuccessful re-election campaign for Senate from Illinois against Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson III . In the fall of 1970, Rove used a false identity to enter the campaign office of Democrat Alan J. Dixon , who was running for Treasurer of Illinois . He stole 1000 sheets of paper with campaign letterhead, printed fake campaign rally fliers promising "free beer, free food, girls and

1536-528: A legal entity as the lessor. Two children of former News editor George Q. Cannon would play prominent roles during this period, with John Q. Cannon as editor and Abraham H. Cannon as business manager. The leasing had occurred due to financial troubles, and the Cannon family hoped to make the business profitable. This did not happen and the paper's assets and property were transferred back to The Deseret News Company on September 7, 1898; after almost six years under

1632-401: A month via a consulting contract. In a deposition , Rove testified that he severed the tie in 1996 because he felt awkward "about balancing that responsibility with his role as Bush's top political advisor" while Bush was governor of Texas and Texas was suing the tobacco industry . Rove advised the younger Bush during his unsuccessful Texas congressional campaign in 1978. In 1977, Rove was

1728-413: A negative story with columnist Robert Novak about dissatisfaction with campaign fundraising chief Robert Mosbacher Jr. Novak's column suggested a motive when it described the firing of Mosbacher by former Senator Phil Gramm : "Also attending the session was political consultant Karl Rove, who had been shoved aside by Mosbacher." Novak and Rove denied that Rove leaked, but Mosbacher maintained that "Rove

1824-496: A new farm, home, and garden section. The Sunday edition would continue into the 1950s, when an agreement with The Salt Lake Tribune would cease publication. After World War II the Deseret News , The Salt Lake Tribune and the Salt Lake Telegram were all struggling financially, but no more than the Deseret News . In September 1952, the owners of the News (LDS Church) and Tribune ( Thomas Kearns Family) entered into

1920-511: A set of car keys to his son George W. Bush , who was visiting home during a break from Harvard Business School . It was the first time the two met. "Huge amounts of charisma, swagger, cowboy boots, flight jacket, wonderful smile, just charisma – you know, wow", Rove recalled years later. In 1976, Rove left D.C. to work in Virginian politics. Initially, Rove served as the Finance Director for

2016-421: A skilled debater. Encouraged by a teacher to run for class senate, Rove won the election. As part of his campaign strategy he rode in the back of a convertible inside the school gymnasium sitting between two attractive girls before his election speech. While at Olympus High School , he was elected student council president his junior and senior years. Rove was also a Teenage Republican and served as Chairman of

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2112-618: A version of the Midwestern College Republicans constitution which differed significantly from the constitution that the Edgeworth forces were using, in order to justify the unseating of the Edgeworth delegates on procedural grounds, including delegations, such as Ohio and Missouri, which had been certified earlier by Rove himself. In the end, there were two votes, conducted by two convention chairs, and two winners—Rove and Edgeworth, each of whom delivered an acceptance speech. After

2208-493: A well-reasoned and extremely circumspect defensive, followed by rapid and audacious attack." In 1986, just before a crucial debate in the campaign, Rove claimed that his office had been bugged by Democrats. The police and FBI investigated and discovered that the bug's battery was so small that it needed to be changed every few hours, and the investigation was dropped. Critics, including other Republican operatives, suspected Rove had bugged his own office to garner sympathy votes in

2304-758: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Karl Rove Prior to his White House appointments, he is credited with the 1994 and 1998 Texas gubernatorial victories of George W. Bush , as well as Bush's 2000 and 2004 successful presidential campaigns. In his 2004 victory speech, Bush referred to Rove as "the Architect". Rove has also been credited for the successful campaigns of John Ashcroft (1994 U.S. Senate election), Bill Clements (1986 Texas gubernatorial election), Senator John Cornyn (2002 U.S. Senate election), Governor Rick Perry (1990 Texas Agriculture Commission election), and Phil Gramm (1982 U.S. House and 1984 U.S. Senate elections). Since leaving

2400-562: Is published twice weekly. The Deseret News National Edition is a national weekly print paper concentrating its reporting and feature articles on areas including family, faith, education, and other values core to the LDS faith. It is available for delivery throughout the United States. The Deseret News launched its monthly magazine in 2021, which publishes ten times a year with a double issue in July/August and January/February. The magazine covers

2496-543: Is the only one with a motive to leak this. We let him go. I still believe he did it." During testimony before the CIA leak grand jury , Rove apparently confirmed his prior involvement with Novak in the 1992 campaign leak, according to National Journal reporter Murray Waas . 1993 Kay Bailey Hutchison senatorial campaign Rove helped Hutchison win a special Senate election in June 1993. Hutchison defeated Democrat Bob Krueger to fill

2592-573: The Associated Press . During the 1920s the paper's circulation nearly doubled, reaching almost 40,000. On November 20, 1920, the News began airing nightly wireless news flashes, called the Deseret News -International News Service bulletins. The paper had also formed The Deseret News Wireless Club, with members across the Western United States who would transcribe the radio bulletins and post them in their communities. In April 1922

2688-644: The Deseret News Local Edition and a weekly edition of the Church News and Deseret News National Edition. The company also publishes 10 editions of Deseret Magazine per year. On March 31, 1847, while at Winter Quarters , Nebraska , the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles authorized William W. Phelps to "go east and procure a printing press" to be taken to the future Mormon settlement in

2784-425: The Deseret News appeared January 16, 1983, and the paper has published a Sunday edition ever since. The newspaper moved into its newly constructed headquarters on Regent Street downtown Salt Lake City in 1997. As the twentieth century ended, the Deseret News found itself embroiled in a contentious and often public battle with The Salt Lake Tribune , centered around the terms of their joint operating agreement,

2880-422: The Deseret News once again moved, this time into a new building on Regent Street. The joint operating agreement with the Tribune in 1952 had ended the paper's Sunday edition, but when the 30-year-old agreement was up for renewal, it was changed to allow the Deseret News to publish a Sunday morning edition and change its Saturday publication from an evening to morning paper. The first Sunday morning edition of

2976-595: The Great Basin . Phelps left Winter Quarters sometime in May, and went to Boston by way of the former Mormon settlement of Nauvoo, Illinois . In Boston, with the help of William I. Appleby, the president of the Church's Eastern States Mission, and Church member Alexander Badlam, Phelps was able to procure a wrought iron Ramage hand-press , type , and other required equipment. He returned to Winter Quarters on November 12, 1847, with

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3072-636: The Lake of the Ozarks resort in Missouri was quite contentious. Rove's opponent was Robert Edgeworth of Michigan . The other major candidate, Terry Dolan of California , dropped out, supporting Edgeworth. A number of states had sent two competing delegates, because Rove and his supporters had made credential challenges at state and regional conventions. For example, after the Midwest regional convention, Rove forces had produced

3168-669: The News began looking for a location to build a new paper mill, as the Sugar House paper plant was inadequate. A new granite plant was constructed near the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon , 13 miles south of the paper's offices. The mill began producing paper in April 1883, and was known as the Cottonwood Paper Mill . The News would sell the paper mill in 1892 to the Granite Paper Mills Company. The mill caught fire and

3264-680: The News digitally through their dial-up service; digital-only subscriptions were also created. Installation of the Crossroads software—which was mailed on floppy disk to each subscriber beginning in February 1995—was required on each user's computer. The network also allowed users to access the paper's complete text along with archives back to April 1988, the Church News and the LDS Church Almanac. The software allowed subscribers to communicate with each other through an email-like system. Eventually

3360-474: The News has often been called grandmother, granny, or The Mormon Hand Organ. Since its first publication, the News had been owned directly by the LDS Church, but as worries about property confiscation increased due to the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act and Poland Act , the paper's ownership was transferred to The Deseret News Company following incorporation on September 3, 1880. About this same time

3456-632: The News moved out from its longtime home in the Deseret Store, kitty-corner to a newly constructed building. This was the first time the paper had a building constructed expressly for it. It was designed by Richard K.A. Kletting and built with stone from Mount Nebo in Central Utah. While the building was under construction, a fire destroyed the Oregon Short Line building in Salt Lake City, and

3552-407: The News to begin normal operations. The soldiers who had marched to Utah during the war would remain at the newly constructed Camp Floyd . Their need for a newspaper, one not published by the LDS Church, was satisfied with Kirk Anderson's Valley Tan , the area's second newspaper (and first competitor to the News ); published November 6, 1858. During the 1850s through 1860s, numerous articles in

3648-611: The News were printed in the Deseret Alphabet . The coming of the Pony Express to Utah in 1860 would bring changes to the paper, allowing news from the East to arrive in the Territory much faster. Even so, the paper remained a weekly, with News extras being published with more frequency and temporary renamed The Pony Dispatch . Yet, paper problems still plagued the publishers; paper

3744-561: The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump . The paper's first website, DesNews.com, was launched on September 27, 1995. The domain was later changed to DeseretNews.com, and changed again in August 2019 to Deseret.com. The Deseret News launched native iOS apps in December 2011. An Android version of the app was later released for the Google Play Store. The Deseret News Local Edition

3840-538: The 1970s. She frequently withheld child support checks and spent them for herself. She and her second husband lost most of their money due to poor financial decisions on her part and his gambling and overspending. On September 11, 1981, Rove's mother died by suicide north of Reno, Nevada , shortly after she decided to divorce her third and final husband, to whom she had been unhappily married for only three months. Rove began his involvement in American politics in 1968. In

3936-606: The Board for International Broadcasting by President George H.W. Bush, Senator Dixon did not kill his nomination. In Rove's account, "Dixon displayed more grace than I had shown and kindly excused this youthful prank." In June 1971, after the end of the semester, Rove dropped out of the University of Utah to take a paid position as the executive director of the College Republican National Committee . Joe Abate, who

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4032-586: The College Republican's executive director, and who would become Bush's main campaign strategist in future years. Bush hired Rove as a Special Assistant in the Republican National Committee, a job Rove left in 1974 to become Executive Assistant to the co-chair of the RNC, Richard D. Obenshain . As Special Assistant, Rove performed small personal tasks for Bush. In November 1973, he asked Rove to take

4128-593: The College Republicans. Bush then wrote Edgeworth a letter saying that he had concluded that Rove had fairly won the vote at the convention. Edgeworth wrote back, asking about the basis of that conclusion. Not long after that, Edgeworth stated "Bush sent me back the angriest letter I have ever received in my life. I had leaked to The Washington Post , and now I was out of the Party forever." As National Chairman, Rove introduced Bush to Atwater, who had taken Rove's job as

4224-586: The Crossroads Information Network was shut down and its features were moved to DesNews.com, which itself was replaced with DeseretNews.com. The paper's first website, DesNews.com, was launched on September 27, 1995. This allowed News content to be accessed through an internet website, rather than the software required by Crossroads. The website was meant for those outside the Salt Lake area, who had to pay long-distance calling charges when dialed into

4320-578: The Crossroads network. On April 13, 2008, Joseph A. Cannon announced in a front page editor's note that the name of the newspaper had been changed back to the Deseret News , although the News would continue to be published in the morning. In 2010, the Deseret News moved its offices out of the Deseret News Building to the broadcast house in the Triad Center , so they could integrate with KSL 's newsroom. In November 2016, Doug Wilks became

4416-600: The Deseret News Publishing Company formed in 1892 by the Cannon family to lease ownership of the paper, and dissolved when the lease was over). Its articles of incorporation, filed with the Salt Lake County Clerk, provided for 500 shares of stock, all retained by the Church (with the exception of the qualifying directors' shares). On May 16, 1948, the Deseret News would deliver its first Sunday paper. The first Sunday edition contained 154 pages with

4512-642: The Howard Egan Company along the Mormon Trail . The wagon company, with the press, arrived in the Salt Lake Valley August 7, 1849. The press was moved into a small adobe building (just east of the present site of the Hotel Utah ) that also served as a coin mint for the settlers. The press was at first used to print the necessary documents (such as laws, records, and forms) used in setting up

4608-516: The Pony Express obsolete, and bringing news to the Territory almost instantly. The News extras, now sometimes called telegraphic dispatches, were printed with even more frequency. In March 1862, the News and its staff moved from the Council House to the Deseret Store, and in 1864 a steam-powered printing press arrived; it was placed in the basement the building. The set type was lowered from

4704-596: The Republican Party of Virginia. Rove describes this as the role in which he discovered his love for direct mail campaigns. Rove's initial job in Texas was in 1977 as a legislative aide for Fred Agnich , a Texas Republican state representative from Dallas . Later that same year, Rove got a job as executive director of the Fund for Limited Government, a political action committee (PAC) in Houston headed by James A. Baker, III ,

4800-593: The Republicans was unprecedented in the state, which had previously only seen low-key contests. After the election, a court battle over absentee and other ballots followed that lasted more than 11 months. It ended when a federal appeals court judge ruled that disputed absentee ballots could not be counted, and ordered the Alabama Secretary of State to certify the Republican candidate for Chief Justice, Perry Hooper , as

4896-519: The Utah Federation of Teenage Republicans. During this time, his father got a job in Los Angeles and visited the family during holidays. Rove's mother suffered from depression and had contemplated suicide more than once in her life. Rove has stated that although he loved his mother, she was seriously flawed, undependable and, at times, unstable. In December 1969, after a heated fight with his wife,

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4992-604: The White House, Rove has worked as a political analyst and contributor for Fox News , Newsweek , and The Wall Street Journal . Rove was born on Christmas Day in Denver, Colorado , the second of five children, and was raised in Sparks, Nevada . His parents separated when he was 19 years old and the man whom Rove knew as his father was a geologist . In 1965, his family moved to Salt Lake City , where Rove entered high school, becoming

5088-431: The agreement, both publications were free to contract printing needs with third parties and chart their futures independent of each other. After the dissolution became apparent, the Deseret News made the decision to end its daily print edition beginning January 1, 2021 (after just over 153 years of daily publication). The daily print edition was replaced with a new weekly local edition and the company would continue to print

5184-451: The beginning, paper shortages were a problem for the News staff. Starting with the October 19, 1850, issue—only four months after publication began—the paper had to be changed to a bi-weekly publication. Even so, many times in the 1850s there were several periods when the News could not be published for lack of paper; one period lasted three months during the fall of 1851. Thomas Howard,

5280-495: The breadth of beliefs across the United States, including but not limited to the LDS Church. Previously, content under the "Faith" section included only news unrelated to the LDS Church, with news related to the LDS Church covered by Mormon Times . The Deseret News also publishes a weekly compact-sized insert, the Church News . The Church News includes news of the LDS Church and has been published since 1931. From 1974 to 2013,

5376-465: The close governor's race. In 1988, Rove helped Thomas R. Phillips become the first Republican elected as Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Phillips had been appointed to the position in November 1987 by Clements. Phillips was re-elected in 1990, 1996 and 2002. Phillips' election in 1988 was part of an aggressive grassroots campaign called "Clean Slate '88", a conservative effort that

5472-423: The control of the Cannon family. The family's Deseret News Publishing Company was dissolved after the lease was gone, and within a few months The Deseret News Company was also dissolved and ownership of the paper was returned directly to the LDS Church. When the LDS Church regained direct control over the News , Horace G. Whitney was appointed business manager and Charles W. Penrose returned as editor. Immediately

5568-402: The convention, both Edgeworth and Rove appealed to Republican National Committee Chairman George H. W. Bush , each contending that he was the new College Republican chairman. While resolution was pending, Dolan went (anonymously) to The Washington Post with recordings of several training seminars for young Republicans where a co-presenter of Rove's, Bernie Robinson, cautioned against doing

5664-610: The country. He was an active participant in Richard Nixon 's 1972 presidential campaign . A CBS report on the organization of the Nixon campaign from June 1972 includes an interview with a young Rove working for the College Republican National Committee. Rove held the position of executive director of the College Republicans until early 1973. He left the job to spend five months, without pay, campaigning full-time for

5760-421: The course of three campaigns. 1994 George W. Bush gubernatorial campaign Deseret News The Deseret News ( / ˌ d ɛ z ə ˈ r ɛ t / ) is a multi-platform newspaper based in Salt Lake City , published by Deseret News Publishing Company , a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation , which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . Founded in 1850, it

5856-431: The desire of the Deseret News to switch from afternoon to morning publication, and ownership changes at the Tribune . The battle was resolved with the 2000 sale of the Tribune and with the Deseret News switching to morning publication and changing its name on June 9, 2003, to the Deseret Morning News . On January 26, 1995, the Deseret News launched the Crossroads Information Network, allowing subscribers to access

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5952-402: The editor of the Deseret News . In October 2016, breaking an 80-year tradition of staying out of U.S. presidential politics, the Deseret News editorial board urged its readers not to vote for Donald Trump . In October 2020, the Deseret News and The Salt Lake Tribune announced the dissolution of their decades-long Joint Operating Agreement to share printing facilities. With the end of

6048-415: The elections of 2012. The project was strongly criticized by some other conservative activists, including Newt Gingrich who described it as a "terrible idea." The initiative was mostly defunct by 2014, largely in part due to incumbent candidates not being in as much risk to losing to Tea Party candidates compared to the previous election cycle. This article related to the politics of the United States

6144-436: The first person hired by George H. W. Bush for his unsuccessful 1980 presidential campaign , which ended with Bush as the vice-presidential nominee. In 1982, Rove returned to assisting Governor Bill Clements in his run for reelection, but was defeated by Democrat Mark White . In 1982, Phil Gramm was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a conservative Texas Democrat. In 1984, Rove helped Gramm, who had become

6240-415: The global operating company, Deseret Management Corporation , which also owns Bonneville International , Deseret Book Company , and Deseret Media Company, among other organizations. The Deseret News had been under the direct ownership of the Church since 1898, when The Deseret News Company was dissolved. On December 29, 1931, the Deseret News Publishing Company was incorporated (not to be confused with

6336-482: The investigation and with airing all of this has stuck around because it is convenient for some to blame me rather than those aides who ran afoul of the law. Rove was campaign manager for Florence Shapiro 's 1992 campaign for District 2 in the Texas Senate , which included Collin County and counties in East Texas . Shapiro was the top vote-getter in the Republican primary against Don Kent and former Plano mayor Jack Harvard, then defeated Kent by 1 percentage point in

6432-400: The last two years of Lloyd Bentsen 's term. Bentsen had resigned to become Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration. 1994 Alabama Supreme Court races In 1994, a group called the Business Council of Alabama hired Rove to help run a slate of Republican candidates for the state supreme court. No Republican had been elected to that court in more than a century. The campaign by

6528-447: The man Rove had known as his father left the family and divorced Rove's mother soon afterwards. It was at this juncture that Rove was finally told that he and his older brother had a different birth father, his mother's prior husband. Rove's relationship with his adoptive father was briefly strained for a few months following the divorce, but they maintained a relationship afterward. Rove had only infrequent contact with his mother in

6624-402: The offices in the building's upper floor to the basement, through holes in each floor. Later an addition was constructed to the east of this building, and the presses were moved into that building. On October 8, 1865, the News launched its semi-weekly edition, this allowed news to get out more quickly and allowed for more advertisements. The weekly edition would continue and contained much of

6720-516: The paper received a license to officially operate a radio station, with call letters KZN (later changed to KSL ). The station's first regular broadcast aired on May 6, 1922, in the form of a talk by then-LDS Church president Heber J. Grant . In 1924 the station was sold to John Cope and his father, F.W. Cope, who formed the Radio Service Corporation of Utah. The LDS Church would later purchase this corporation and go on to create KSL-TV . The News , KSL Radio, and KSL Television remain closely linked via

6816-439: The paper's weekly edition, The Deseret Weekly , was discontinued; its last issue was published December 10, 1898. On October 1, 1900, the George Q. Cannon & Sons bookstore was sold to the LDS Church, and renamed the Deseret News Bookstore. In 1920 the Deseret Sunday School Union Bookstore was also consolidated into the Deseret News Bookstore, and eventually the bookstore would become its own company, Deseret Book . In 1903

6912-830: The people and culture of the Deseret region (from the Sierras to the Rockies, from the border of Mexico to the Pacific Northwest) and its intersection with the broader world. It includes essays on politics, culture, and faith from local and national thought leaders as well as other narratives and profiles. In addition to coverage of Utah and the broader region, the Deseret News also publishes content under its "Faith" section that features stories related to religion, churches and places of worship, and topics that intersect with faith such as Supreme Court rulings and religious education. These topics cover

7008-544: The position of National Chairman during the time he attended George Mason University . Lee Atwater , the group's Southern regional coordinator, who was two months younger than Rove, assisted with Rove's campaign. His campaign was managed by Daniel Mintz, of the Maryland College Republicans. Karl spent the spring of 1973 crisscrossing the country in a Ford Pinto , lining up the support of Republican state chairs. The College Republicans summer 1973 convention at

7104-509: The press. Due partly to its size and weight, the press and equipment would not be taken to Salt Lake City until 1849. By that time many of the Mormon pioneers had left Winter Quarters and the press was moved across the Missouri River to another temporary Mormon settlement, Kanesville, Iowa . In April 1849 the press and other church property was loaded onto ox drawn wagons, and traveled with

7200-459: The primary. In 1990, two other Rove candidates won: Rick Perry , the future governor of the state, became agricultural commissioner, and Kay Bailey Hutchison became state treasurer. One notable aspect of the 1990 election was the charge that Rove had asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate major Democratic officeholders in Texas. In his 2010 autobiography, Rove called

7296-531: The provisional State of Deseret . The first issue of the Deseret News was published June 15, 1850, and was eight pages long. This first issue included the paper's prospectus , written by the editor Willard Richards , along with news from the United States Congress , and a report on the San Francisco 1849 Christmas Eve fire; an event which had occurred six months prior. Because it was meant to be

7392-552: The railroad wanted to rent space in the new building. As a result, the News constructed an annex to the west of the new building for more space. This new home was at the site of the former Council House ; presently the Beneficial Tower (Gateway Tower West) sits at this location. The daily, called the Deseret Evening News, was renamed to the Deseret News on June 15, 1920; the paper's 70th anniversary. The semi-weekly

7488-402: The same content as the semi-weekly, but editorials were different. In November 1867, George Q. Cannon became the editor, and on the 21st of that month, the News published its first daily edition, which was printed in the evening, and as such was named The Deseret Evening News . Most of what was published in the daily edition, was also published in the weekly and semi-weekly, as the daily

7584-546: The same thing he had done: rooting through opponents' garbage cans. The tape with this story on it, as well as Rove's admonition not to copy similar tricks as Rove's against Dixon, was secretly recorded and edited by Rich Evans, who had hoped to receive an appointment from Rove's competitor in the CRNC chairmanship race. On August 10, 1973, in the midst of the Watergate scandal , the Post broke

7680-513: The story in an article titled "GOP Party Probes Official as Teacher of Tricks". In response, then RNC Chairman George H.W. Bush, had an FBI agent question Rove. As part of the investigation, Atwater signed an affidavit , dated August 13, 1973, stating that he had heard a "20 minute anecdote similar to the one described in The Washington Post " in July 1972, but that "it was a funny story during

7776-479: The suit would make it hard to recruit good candidates, urged Rove to back off. When Rove refused, the RNC hired Kenneth Starr to write an amicus brief on Thornburgh's behalf. Karl Rove & Co. v. Thornburgh was heard by U.S. Federal Judge Sam Sparks , who had been appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1991. After a trial in Austin, Rove prevailed. Rove was fired from the 1992 Bush presidential campaign after he planted

7872-475: The territory collecting rags that would then be turned into paper, and was able to supply enough to keep the News in production. Other problems such as ice and drought on the stream, running out of Parley's Canyon , that ran the paper mill caused the paper to have short lapses in publication. In October 1861 the lines of the First Transcontinental Telegraph met in Salt Lake City, making

7968-600: The voice of the State of Deseret, it was called the Deseret News, and its motto was "Truth and Liberty". It was at first a weekly Saturday publication, and published in "pamphlet form" in hopes that readers would have the papers bound into volumes. Subscription rate was $ 2.50 for six months. A jobs press, usually called the Deseret News Press, was also set up so the News could print books, booklets, handbills, broadsides, etc., for paying customers and other publishers. From

8064-463: The weekly national edition, Church News , and introduce the Deseret Magazine . Starting March 23, 2022, the Deseret News began publication of the semiweekly local edition, bringing print publication of their local edition to twice weekly. In December 2020, the Deseret News editorial board again broke political neutrality by denouncing Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes 's decision to support

8160-670: The whole thing a "myth", saying: The FBI did investigate Texas officials during that span, but I had nothing to do with it. The investigation was called "Brilab" and was part of a broad anti- corruption probe that looked at officials in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., as well as Texas   ... An official for the U.S. Department of Agriculture spotted expenses claimed by Hightower 's shop that raised red flags   ... enough to indict some of Hightower's top aides; they were later found guilty and sent to prison.   ... The myth that I had something to do both with spurring

8256-518: The winner. An appeal to the Supreme Court by the Democratic candidate was turned down within a few days, making the ruling final. Hooper won by 262 votes. Another candidate, Harold See , ran against Mark Kennedy, an incumbent Democratic justice and the son-in-law of George Wallace . The race included charges that Kennedy was mingling campaign funds with those of a non-profit children's foundation he

8352-637: Was National Chairman of the College Republicans at the time, became his mentor. Rove then enrolled at the University of Maryland in College Park in the Fall of 1971, but withdrew from classes during the first half of the semester. In July 1999 he told The Washington Post that he did not have a degree because "I lack at this point one math class, which I can take by exam, and my foreign language requirement." Rove traveled extensively, participating as an instructor at weekend seminars for campus conservatives across

8448-471: Was deputy director of the Governor William P. Clements Junior Committee in 1979 and 1980, and deputy executive assistant to the governor of Texas (roughly, Deputy Chief of Staff) in 1980 and 1981. In 1981, Rove founded a direct mail consulting firm, Karl Rove & Co. , in Austin. The firm's first clients included Texas Governor Bill Clements and Democratic congressman Phil Gramm , who later became

8544-563: Was destroyed April 1, 1893. On October 1, 1892, The Deseret News Company leased the News along with all the company's printing, bookbinding, and merchandising to the Cannon family . The family was, at that time, operating the George Q. Cannon & Sons bookstore in downtown Salt Lake City. When the lease began the family formed the Deseret News Printing Company, which was to be the lessee, while The Deseret News Company would remain

8640-571: Was discontinued on June 22, 1922, leaving the daily as the only news publication. Two days later the News announced it had purchased the Utah Farmer , a weekly agricultural paper; which it would eventually sell. In 1926 the News once again moved into a new building, this time on Richard's Street (just south of the present Deseret Book store in City Creek Center .) This same year, the News began using teletype technology to receive news from

8736-452: Was involved with. A former Rove staffer reported that some within the See camp initiated a whisper campaign that Kennedy was a pedophile . Kennedy won by less than one percentage point. 1994 John Ashcroft senatorial campaign In 1993, Karl Rove & Company was paid $ 300,000 in consulting fees by Ashcroft's successful 1994 Senate campaign. Ashcroft paid Rove's company more than $ 700,000 over

8832-601: Was meant for city readers and the weekly and semi-weekly for those living in the more rural areas of the territory. Until December 1898 all three editions—the weekly, semi-weekly, and daily—were published concurrently. In 1870, the Mormon Tribune , later named The Salt Lake Tribune , was first printed, adding a new newspaper rival to the Salt Lake area. Since its founding the Tribune and News have often been involved in "newspaper battles", times when they could not agree on anything, even secular items. During these battles

8928-606: Was successful in getting five of its six candidates elected. (Ordinarily there were three justices on the ballot each year, on a nine-justice court, but, because of resignations, there were six races for the Supreme Court on the ballot in November 1988.) By 1998, Republicans held all nine seats on the Court. In 1989, Rove encouraged George W. Bush to run for Texas governor, brought in experts to tutor him on policy, and introduced him to local reporters. Eventually, Bush decided not to run, and Rove backed another Republican for governor who lost in

9024-548: Was the first newspaper to be published in Utah . The publication's name is from the geographic area of Deseret identified by Utah's pioneer settlers , and much of the publication's reporting is rooted in that region. On January 1, 2021, the newspaper switched from a daily to a weekly print format while continuing to publish daily on the website and Deseret News app. As of 2024, Deseret News develops daily content for its website and apps, in addition to twice weekly print editions of

9120-596: Was to take the remainder to Parowan . On May 5, 1858, the first issue of the News with Fillmore City as the publication place appeared; issues would continue to be printed in both Fillmore and Parowan until September 1858 While in Fillmore, the press was kept in the basement of the Utah Territorial Statehouse . That fall the presses were brought back to Salt Lake City and placed in the Council House , allowing

9216-489: Was very expensive to haul from California or the East, and attempts at making paper in the valley were still, for the most part, futile. In 1860 a paper-making machine had been purchased, and set-up in the Deseret Manufacturing Company sugar house factory, but lack of available materials meant a lack of paper. As a result, Brigham Young called George Goddard on a rag-gathering mission. Goddard traveled through

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