Word: bagmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watergate's assorted bunglers, burglars and bagmen have prompted Congress to move, albeit ponderously, toward adopting a new act. Last week the Senate choked off, by a 64-to-30 vote, a filibuster led by conservative Alabama Democrat James Allen, who abhors public financing. Two days later, by a 53-to-32 vote, the upper chamber passed a wide-ranging bill calling for public financing of all congressional and presidential elections, primary and general. But the House is likely to rule out public funding for congressional elections. And even if the House does approve public financing of presidential races...
...could be counted on, without quibbling, to collect or pay out money as problems arose. In addition to the charge of obtaining contributions and secretly and illegally funneling them to candidates, which he pleaded guilty to last week, Kalmbach was one of the bagmen who picked up campaign contributions from milk producers just before the Administration upped milk-price supports in 1971. He paid Donald Segretti some $45,000 in salary and expenses to carry out his campaign of political dirty tricks, and he illegally raised funds and paid out $220,000 to the seven Watergate defendants...