GSA Chief Is Accused of Playing Politics

Doan Denies 'Improper' Use of Agency for GOP

By Scott Higham and Robert O'Harrow Jr.

Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, March 26, 2007; Page A01

Witnesses have told congressional investigators that the chief of the General Services Administration and a deputy in Karl Rove's political affairs office at the White House joined in a videoconference earlier this year with top GSA political appointees, who discussed ways to help Republican candidates.

With GSA Administrator Lurita Alexis Doan and up to 40 regional administrators on hand, J. Scott Jennings, the White House's deputy director of political affairs, gave a PowerPoint presentation on Jan. 26 of polling data about the 2006 elections.