Doan expected Rove aide to give ‘motivational speech.’

GSA chief Lurita Doan is accused of violating federal law after she hosted a partisan PowerPoint briefing delivered by top Karl Rove deputy Scott Jennings, and then asked her agency employees to think up ways to help GOP candidates. During her hearing today, Doan claimed she didn’t know it would be a political meeting. “I thought we were going to have a motivational speech,” Doan told Rep. John Mica (R-FL). Watch it:

Earlier during the hearing, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) made public an email written by Doan while she was a staffer at the Homeland Security Department. From her official government account, Doan wrote, “as I mentioned, I believe that party has a unique opportunity to make about a 5 percent swing of the black vote to the GOP… one of the largest concentrations of wealth and influence lies in the black business community.”