Bush's Catholic adviser resigns

This should bring in the churchgoing Catholic vote:

Deal Hudson, the publisher of the conservative Roman Catholic journal Crisis and the architect of a Republican effort to court Catholic voters, said he is resigning as an adviser to the Bush campaign because of a newspaper's investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct involving a student at a college where he once taught.

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A person involved with the university's investigation said that a female undergraduate in one of Hudson's classes reported to the university that, after she had become drunk at a bar, Hudson made sexual advances toward her.

Hudson has been an influential adviser to President Bush and a close friend of the White House political strategist Karl Rove since the late 1990s. Hudson first caught Rove's attention by publishing a study in Crisis in 1998 arguing that Republican candidates could make inroads among traditionally Democratic-leaning Catholic voters by focusing on regular churchgoers, a strategy that dovetailed with Bush's emphasis on "compassionate conservatism."

That's actually not the whole story. Hudson had taken one of his students to a bar and gave her drinks even though he knew she was only eighteen, then took her to his office to exchange sexual favors after a quick stop to kiss his wife good night.

For the more complete story of the rise and fall of Deal Hudson, click here.