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...then, I had learned how to select a boss," Beutler says. "A guy who has a wife who's a professional and/or a daughter...
...Clinton at a hospital tribute to her; $500,000 from Chris Korge, a Miami lawyer who had a golf outing with the President set up by McAuliffe. On Day Two, he visited Sweeney. "John, as you can see, I'm here," he said. "You can trust it." The labor boss signed on, clearing the way for about $3 million in contributions for the gala and sending McAuliffe back to the phones. For the next eight weeks, he led a team that made about 200 calls a day. The scene could have passed for a bookie operation, with lines jangling...
...favor for a powerful labor boss that McAuliffe agreed to chair last Wednesday's gala. AFL-CIO president John Sweeney had become so unhappy with D.N.C. leaders that he threatened to stop affiliated unions from donating to the party unless McAuliffe took over its reins. Only he could raise a lot of money quickly to get Gore on the air during the lead-up to his nomination, Sweeney argued. McAuliffe was unwilling to take the full-time job, but he did promise to lead the drive for dollars. At 9 a.m. on March 27, he and associate Peter O'Keefe...
...business-political nexus came up again in the federal investigation of Teamster efforts to swap contributions with the D.N.C. in the 1996 campaigns to re-elect both Clinton and union boss Ron Carey. McAuliffe had worked on a high-paying corporate issue with a political consultant who later hatched the swap plan on behalf of the Teamsters. But McAuliffe told prosecutors he had never agreed to a trade and says he has not heard from them since...
...good chunk is held by AOL and Gateway, actually - to use both its new Crusoe processors and an adaptation of the Linux operating system to power a new generation of Internet appliances. The strategy is part of "AOL Anywhere," and the deliciously timed announcement - don't think AOL boss Steve Case doesn't know this is Break It Up Week for Judge Jackson - was a pointed message that as the microprocessor moves off the desktop and invades the rest of the house, AOL and friends intend to do it without use of the Wintel alliance. (TIME.com is owned by Time...