Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor of McClatchy Newspapers report New Mexico Republican party chairman
Allen Weh . . . said he complained in 2005 about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to a White House liaison who worked for Rove and asked that he be removed. Weh said he followed up with Rove personally in late 2006 during a visit to the White House.
"Is anything ever going to happen to that guy?" Weh said he asked Rove at a White House holiday event that month.
"He's gone," Rove said, according to Weh.
"I probably said something close to 'Hallelujah,'" said Weh.
According to the article Weh was complaining that Iglesias wasn't prosecuting Democrats fast enough. In Alberto Gonzales' Justice Department that is the ultimate "performance related issue."
UPDATE: Weh's whirling dervish reaction to his previous comments can be found in this morning's LA Times. Weh claims Rove had "little or nothing to do with" the firing. Note the qualifying phrase "little or nothing." According to Weh when Rove said "he's gone," the firing had already occurred. Of course, Weh had given Rove's liaison an ear full back in 2005 and Domenici and Wilson made their calls in October.
