I believe that the woman known as the various names listed above has finally settled on the name Kelley Robertson:
Kelley Robertson
Partner
Kelley Robertson designs and leads public policy campaigns for Fortune 100 companies and trade associations. Ms. Robertson has a winning track record of shaping public policy, including legislative and regulatory initiatives, to reflect client priorities. She offers particular expertise with issues critical to the financial, energy, natural resources,health care and entertainment industries.
Ms. Robertson has nearly 20 years of experience advising executives and candidates, managing public affairs and political campaigns, and leading organizations. A veteran of Republican politics at the national and state levels, Ms. Robertson served as Deputy Campaign Manager for Bush-Cheney ’04 and as Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee, working closely with RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman. Ms. Robertson’s experience also includes serving in The White House as President George W. Bush’s Southern Political Director. Ms. Robertson also served as Southeast Political Director for the RNC and as Director of Karl Rove + Company.
A native of Columbus, Georgia, Ms. Robertson received her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Alabama and now lives with her family in Alexandria, Virginia.
More on Ms Robertson's past and present below the fold:
At present Robertson is a partner and vice present of public policy campaigns on behalf of Fortune 500 clients.
Kelley Robertson
Vice President
Kelley McCullough Robertson directs public policy campaigns on behalf of Fortune 500 clients. Ms. Robertson brings to DCI Group over 13 years of experience managing campaigns, leading organizations and advocating public policy interests.
Immediately prior to joining DCI Group, Ms. Robertson served as the Chief of Staff at the Republican National Committee where she worked closely with RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman in advancing the mission of the Republican Party. Before joining the Committee, Ms. Robertson served as Deputy Campaign Manager for Bush-Cheney ‘04.
Prior to the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign, Ms. Robertson’s experience included serving in the White House as Associate Political Director for President George W. Bush, Southeast Political Director for the RNC and State Director of Karl Rove + Company.
Ms. Robertson began her career in politics in the early 1990s running Supreme Court Races in Alabama. Ms. Robertson is a graduate of the University of Alabama where she received her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry. Ms. Robertson lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her husband Mark.
Supreme Court races? Karl Rove +? Alabama?
Let's take a little ramble back to Texas in 1993, with Joshua Green writing for the Atlantic:
Priscilla Owen—then a Houston judge, later a controversial Bush appointee to the federal bench—approached a rich Republican donor whose job it was to vet candidates, and explained that she was thinking about running for the Texas Supreme Court. "Have you talked to Karl Rove?" he inquired. Taking the hint, she replied, "No, but I plan to." After Rove agreed to support her, she won handily, outspending her opponent.
However, next year -- and in Alabama:
But no other example of Rove's extreme tactics that I encountered quite compares to what occurred during another 1994 judicial campaign in Alabama. In that year Harold See first ran for the supreme court, becoming the rare Rove client to lose a close race. His opponent, Mark Kennedy (H. Mark Kennedy), an incumbent Democratic justice and, as George Wallace's son-in-law, a member in good standing of Alabama's first family of politics, was no stranger to hardball politics. "The Wallace family history and what they all went through, that's pretty rough politics," says Joe Perkins, who managed Kennedy's campaign. "But it was a whole new dimension with Rove."
Whoah! You don't do that to Karl Rove! The retribution of Karl Rove on Mark Kennedy (H. Mark Kennedy):
A small man, impeccably dressed and well-mannered, Kennedy appeared to derive little satisfaction from having beaten Rove. In fact, he seemed shaken, even ten years later. He quietly explained how Rove's arrival had poisoned the judicial climate by putting politics above matters of law and justice—"collateral damage," he called it, from the win-at-all-costs attitude that now prevails in judicial races.
.... Kennedy seemed most bothered by the personal nature of the attacks, which, in addition to the usual anti-trial-lawyer litany, had included charges that he was mingling campaign funds with those of a nonprofit children's foundation he was involved with. In the end he eked out a victory by less than one percentage point.
.... Some of Kennedy's campaign commercials touted his volunteer work, including one that showed him holding hands with children. "We were trying to counter the positives from that ad," a former Rove staffer told me, explaining that some within the See camp initiated a whisper campaign that Kennedy was a pedophile. "It was our standard practice to use the University of Alabama Law School to disseminate whisper-campaign information," the staffer went on. "That was a major device we used for the transmission of this stuff. The students at the law school are from all over the state, and that's one of the ways that Karl got the information out—he knew the law students would take it back to their home towns and it would get out." This would create the impression that the lie was in fact common knowledge across the state. .. Mark is not your typical Alabama macho, beer-drinkin', tobacco-chewin', pickup-drivin' kind of guy. He is a small, well-groomed, well-educated family man, and what they tried to do was make him look like a homosexual pedophile. That was really, really hard to take."
I'd assume that Kitty McCullough AKA Kelly Kimbrough AKA Kelley McCollough Robertson AKA Kitty McCullough Robertson, with her nice U. of Alabama connections, was Karl Rove's first lieutenant in this little smear operation.
There are so many questions one could ask about the past and present of Kitty McCullough AKA Kelly Kimbrough AKA Kelley McCollough Robertson AKA Kitty McCullough Robertson, like, um, stolen elections, Ms Robertson's rapid rise to a highly-paid lobbyist, but, for the moment, let's just leave it with state supreme court races.
Footnote: there are a plethora of Mark Kennedys in the poliitical world. For purposes of differentiation, the Mark Kennedy I discuss shall, henceforth, be H. (for Henry) Mark Kennedy.