Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thus with a sense of urgency that many of the leading opponents of capital punishment assembled in Florida last week to stage a last-minute campaign for the hapless Spenkelink. Henry Schwarzschild of the American Civil Liberties Union warned of a "constitutional, legal and political disaster that will shock and appall the rest of the world." Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a late addition to Spenkelink's defense team, called the occasion "a tragic moment in American history" and gibed, "If you work at city hall you get voluntary manslaughter," a caustic reference to the lenient verdict against...
...decontrol plan, and House liberals joined Republicans to vote down the proposed federal budget (a vote that was rescinded the next day). Five Democratic Congressmen publicly announced they would not support Carter's renomination and charged that he had "abandoned the promises and hopes of his own campaign." Four of them announced support for the drafting of Senator Edward Kennedy, an idea that Kennedy is doing increasingly little to discourage. A poll released last week showed him beating Carter by a shocking 70% to 20% in a head-on confrontation in California...
...partially cover the check. A couple of weeks later a third bank made a $100,000 loan to Mitchell. During that period, Mitchell also arranged a $175,000 loan from a bank in Rome, Ga., to cover overdrafts there owed by the Bert Lance for Governor Campaign Committee, but the money was actually used to pay back campaign overdrafts in Calhoun...
...intent to injure and defraud the bank" got him an unsecured loan of $45,000, which was "inadequately supported by credit information and collateral." A couple of months later, the indictment charges, LaBelle got a similar $45,000 loan. This was soon after Lance's $1 million gubernatorial campaign. Son David got a $34,530 loan from the bank the following year. Lance's financial statements at the time were "false and misleading," the indictment says. Lance prepared another financial statement in January 1977, the month he became Budget Director, which also failed to note...
...previous investigations of Lance's finances by the Comptroller of the Currency and the SEC. A special counsel, Paul Curran, was appointed in March to conduct an independent investigation of the Carter family business loans and whether or not that money was improperly used in the Carter campaign...