Editing the New Yorker

From John Cassidy's 2005 profile of Grover Norquist:

[T]he White House and social conservatives squabbled, to begin with, anyway, over who should replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court.


"To begin with, anyway" is awkward.

Norquist grew up in Weston, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. . . . Grover says that he himself became interested in conservative politics when, at the age of 13, he picked up two anti-Communist books from his local library: Masters of Deceit, by J. Edgar Hoover, and Witness, by Whittaker Chambers.


Why does Cassidy refer to "Norquist" in the first sentence and "Grover" in the second?

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