GOP IT guru’s sisters question events surrounding his death
Published: April 30, 2009
Updated 6 months ago
The sisters of Michael Connell, a GOP IT consultant and former associate of Karl Rove who died in a plane crash last December, are now questioning the circumstances surrounding his death.
“Shannon Connell of Madison says her brother Michael rarely talked about work,” a local Wisconsin paper reported Thursday. “She knew he ran an Ohio company called New Media Communications that set up websites for Republicans including former President George H.W. Bush and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. But it wasn’t until after he died last December, when the small plane he was piloting crashed, that she learned via the Internet of his tie to a voter fraud case and to allegations that presidential adviser Karl Rove had made threats against him.
“‘At first, it was really hard for me to believe Mike was dead because somebody wanted him dead,” the paper quoted Shannon as saying. “But as time goes on, it’s hard for me not to believe there was something deliberate about it.”
“A native of Illinois, Shannon moved to Madison in 2002,” the paper adds, “the same year as her sister, Mary Jo Walker. Walker, a former Dane County Humane Society employee, has similar concerns about their brother’s death: ‘It doesn’t seem right to me at all.’”
Although there has been speculation in the media about the possibility of sabotage in Connell’s death, Raw Story reported in January that authorities do not suspect foul play. The official investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has not yet determined the cause of the crash; their final report is required to be produced within a year.
Michael Connell was served with a subpoena in Ohio on Sept. 22 in a case alleging that vote-tampering during the 2004 presidential election resulted in civil rights violations. Connell, president of GovTech Solutions and New Media Communications, is a website designer and IT professional who created a website for Ohio’s secretary of state that presented the results of the 2004 election in real time as they were tabulated.
At the time, Ohio’s Secretary of State, Kenneth J. Blackwell, was also chairman of Bush-Cheney’s 2004 reelection effort in Ohio.
The 45-year-old Republican operative was killed when his single-passenger plane crashed into a home in a suburb of Akron, Ohio.
Connell’s ten year-old, seven-passenger, single engine Piper Saratoga II crashed into an empty house on Charolais Street in Lake Township, Ohio. The plane’s right wing clipped a flagpole in the front yard before it broke up, set fire to the garage, and tumbled some 50–60 feet along the ground toward the back yard of a neighboring home.
Connell was thrown from the burning plane and killed instantaneously by massive blunt force trauma, according to the Stark County coroner’s report. Although the body was not burned, fingerprints were required to confirm identity, according to Captain Lorin Geisner of the Greentown Fire Department.
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Rove is devolving. His murders are coming closer and closer together. The trigger for his decompensation must have been his 2006 massive congressional losses to the Democrats. I hope FBI profilers are on this.
Interesting that the article DOES NOT MENTION that the vote tabulating results in Ohio (which determined the Presidency in 2004) went through the Republican National Committee’s computer servers before being presented for public viewing. Isn’t that like asking the fox, “how many chickers were there when you first starting guarding the hen house?” There’s a “verb” for what happened ot Rove’s IT Master: “Wellstoned.”
Go get em sisters
Yes!!!
So who are these “authorities” who do NOT suspect foul play? And why don’t they? He was ready to testify against Karl Rove and the Bushes! How can they NOT think his life was in danger? Plane crashes seem to mysteriously serve Repulicans at crucial times! REMBER PAUL WELLSTONE AND MEL CARNAHAN
How do you get from the Alabama Supreme court and land in Texas? Maybe there are still a few clues.
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Let’s hope the truth comes out, though I do have my doubts as the last gang of criminals still seem to be largely in control.
I typically don’t subscribe to conspiracy theories, however, whenever Uncle KKKarl’s name pops up, I tend to start giving credence to said conspiracy.
What really happened to Barry Jennings? He was another loose end that needed to be silenced.
“killed instantaneously by massive blunt force trauma.” Several of these death examples are exactly why there have not been any 9/11 insiders to come out with what they know.
Florida businessman Ron Turner was lucky to survive his Chattanooga plane crash, 2007. He’d been invested in Destin, FL with (former) Republican Gov. Fletcher, Ky.
Alabama businessman Harley McGatha passed away earlier this month when his plane crashed near the Centre Municipal airport.
Perhaps Republican operatives are predisposed to aviation disaster. What goes up…
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Something I’d like to know. How do you get thrown out of a plane that you were flying when you certainly would have had your seat belt on? Even if the plane was burning, I don’t see how he could have undone the belt. He was an experienced pilot. He would have had his seat belt on. I don’t see how he would have been thrown out. I can’t count on Obama or his attorney general doing any investigation on this. Cheney and Rove have too much on them. Obama will want this to go away and will say it was an unfortunate accident. Let’s not dwell on the past, but strive towards the future. This murder, like all other political murders, will go away.
These people are reactionaries.
We need visionaries.
Some people see a dot and say “a car is speeding our way”, others ask was that a car that just sped by us?
Wellstoned? Maybe, but I think he also may have gone the way of Kenny Lay — not quite so much dead as remade and relocated.
Almost nothing about Connell’s incident was consistent with a small plane crash.
If you think real power in this country has changed hands, guess again folks — it’s the same people running things from behind the scenes.
That is a plausible theory. I think that Barry Jennings might have been put into a “don’t want you to be a witness” protection program. The problem is, when they become anonymous, it is then very easy to knock them off with no fanfare.
I had lunch at at Subway the other day. I sat next to a sharp dressed man who I found out was in the software business. We struck up a conversation about the economy etc.. He told me in the process of the conversation that he used to date Ken Lay’s daughter. He showed me her phone number on his I-Phone. He told me she got 65 million dollars out of the deal. I told him I didn’t think Ken Lay was actually dead. He totally agreed!
Could this be the work of the Cheney Assassination Team?
Lets not forget Senator Paul Wellstone, Mary Jean Palfrey, Bruce Ivins, Barry Jennings, David Kellerman and others who may have suffered from the hands of the CAT.
The article said “voter fraud”- no- it was election fraud committed in Ohio during the 2004 presidential election.
It was Republican Party election fraud.
Whatever happened on Rove providing testimony to Congress? Has he done that yet? Is he scheduled to do that?