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...Keepers declares it has no political agenda. Nevertheless, it makes no attempt to hide its allies on the religious right. As early as 1992, when the group was without a constituency or a mailing list, it received $10,000 in critical assistance from James Dobson, a psychologist and Christian activist who produces the most widely heard Christian daily radio program and is closely allied with the influential religious right Family Research Council lobby in Washington. Since then, Dobson has given Promise Keepers strategic publicity on his radio show, has spoken at a 1993 Promise Keepers rally in Boulder, Colo...
...short of cash. They suggested funneling $150,000 of Teamster money through the federation--and into Carey coffers. Trumka agreed, according to federal investigators. On Nov. 1, a Teamster check went to the AFL-CIO, which passed it on, three days later, to Citizen Action, a small liberal activist organization. On Nov. 6, Citizen Action paid $100,000 to a company handling Carey's direct-mail campaign, according to testimony from the case in which three Carey aides pleaded guilty. Sources close to the investigation say the FBI is focusing not only on Trumka, but also on his boss Sweeney...
...been enthusiastic about prosecuting anybody; police bitterly accuse him of negotiating far too many plea bargains. Dale Stange, just retired as a Boulder patrolman, says the D.A. has long been known to the police as "Alex Let's-Make-a-Deal Hunter." Carla Selby, a community activist, voices another suspicion: "There's a feeling that Alex is vulnerable to big money, that he is protecting the Ramseys"--who are very big money. John Ramsey is head of a computer-products distributor that racked up 1996 revenues of $1 billion...
Donna Shalala had better watch out. Elizabeth Taylor wants to kick her in "the seat." The actress-activist says in November's Poz that she holds the Health and Human Services Secretary responsible for Bill Clinton's lack of support for needle-exchange programs. But the HHS folks say their hands are tied until "certain conditions set by Congress...
Adding to the urgency is the fact that 8,000 people around the world become infected with HIV every day. "I am a little fearful," admits Jose Zuniga, 28, a Chicago AIDS activist. "But I've lost too many friends and loved ones to this disease...