The Associated Press has obtained evidence that outgoing Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge met with Republican pollsters at least twice last spring while he was on a trip through several presidential battleground states. While Ridge was meeting with Republican strategists Frank Luntz and Bill McInturff, the agency was publicly saying it was playing no role in Bush’s re-election campaign. Ridge once said, “We don’t do politics in the Department of Homeland Security.” The evidence of the meeting appears in a just-released copy of Ridge’s calendar from last year. Ridge released the calendar just three days before he left office. Ridge denied the meetings had anything to do with the presidential campaign.