Word: buddhists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Just five months before the presidential elections, the whole ugly 1996 campaign-finance mess has come washing back, along with memories of fund raisers John Huang and Maria Hsia, the Buddhist-temple incident and the never fully answered question of how foreign money wound up in Democratic Party accounts to help the Clinton White House win re-election in 1996. Which is why the Gore campaign battled right back last week. "We're not going to take this lying down," a Gore staff member said hours after the news broke on Thursday. On Friday Gore released the transcript...
...Version 3.0 of will-she-or-won't-she originates from a confrontational April grilling of Gore by Justice investigators over familiar ground - the Buddhist temple, the coffees, the fund-raising calls, the iced-tea defense. Gore, sources said, got defensive and angry, and prosecutors (including the whistleblower this time, Justice's campaign finance division head Robert Conrad) came away more suspicious than ever. They told Reno so. Someone at Justice (apparently not Conrad) decided to leak it to Republicans on the Hill, and Arlen Specter saw fit to tell the world...
...Give Al Gore credit for a fast, non-shifty response - in classic Friday-at-4 fashion - to the sight of those palm-greasing Buddhist monks rearing their shaven heads. He released the full transcript of his April 18 grilling by Justice prosecutor James Conrad, who was sufficiently put off by a short-fused Gore's answers to recommend to Janet Reno that she launch an independent investigation...
...viewers, there was something familiar about the televised attack on Al Gore that ran in several major markets this past March. Called "Hypocrisy," the spot featured a Jeopardy-style game show with questions about Al Gore's Buddhist-temple fund raising and other allegations...
...analysts are pointing to an easy re-election for Gore-Kerry this November, propelled in large part by the support of the influential Buddhist community, which rose to political prominence after Gore's election in 2000. As well, Gore's approval ratings remain high after his high-profile role in putting down a possible rebellion in the state of Texas, led by its rogue governor, defeated 2000 Presidential candidate George W. Bush. Gore's use of the newly-created National Park Service "Controlled Burn" Strike Force was lauded by military analysts and the public as a unique solution...