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...staking out that middle ground, Dole has actually proved more nimble than her main rival, Texas Governor George W. Bush. In the aftermath of the Littleton, Colo., shootings, he chose to sidestep the issue compared with Dole's confrontation in the lion's den. A well-timed trip to Macedonia to visit refugees has also put Dole where her opponents cannot follow. In some ways Elizabeth Dole is running the campaign she wanted her husband to run. He flirted with supporting the assault-weapons ban, then backed down when congressional Republicans howled. He did a long and awkward minuet...
SIBLING RIVALRY Gov. Jeb Bush makes Florida first state with school vouchers--a George W. agenda item...
...BITE In order to prevent rogues from creating anti-Bush websites, George W. Bush has bought a hootenanny of URLs--60!--that send you to his main campaign website. Among them...
...Bush will be able to take only $250 each from them. Though the undeclared GOP candidate raised a whopping $7.6 million in the first quarter, he's trying to amass enough loot to opt out of the public-financing system and its spending limits; so he's hoping for the maximum $1,000 from as many deep pockets as possible. Other G-37 victims: New Jersey's Republican governor Christine Todd Whitman, who's running for Senate, and New York GOP mayor Rudy Giuliani, if he runs. They can't even take the $250 unless the donor lives in their...
Republicans are muttering about a securities rule that's putting a crimp in Gov. George W. Bush's juggernaut. Rule G-37 limits how much can be contributed by brokers and dealers in the public-bond business to state and local officials who can influence who gets that business, including governors and mayors. The restriction applies to anyone who does bond business as well as the firm's top executives, plus...