Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raised $24.2 million--up 130% from four years earlier, a far greater jump than the G.O.P. has made. What's worse, there's the prospect of rain on the whole dollar-driven parade. The black cloud comes in the form of a proposed ban on soft money, among other campaign-finance reforms being promoted by some in the Republicans' own camp, principally Senator John McCain and Representative Christopher Shays. These advocates of reform have long tried to shut the loophole through which as much as half a billion dollars in soft money could flow this year, most of it from...
What's more, the campaign against soft money--which is given to the party rather than to specific candidates--is being aided by an unlikely new interest group, big donors. Corporate leaders are starting to balk at a system that many view as little more than a party-led protection racket. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International, which gave more than $225,000 in the '98 election cycle, mostly to the G.O.P., is likely to cease giving soft money this fall after a vote by its board of directors, predicts chairman Ed Kangas. Several other large companies are expected...
...condition that they renounce violence - came even as the White House was giving them until September 10 to make up their minds. Republicans immediately charged that Mrs. Clinton was hanging the President out to dry while trying to wiggle out of a political gaffe. Nothing of the sort, her campaign responded: Hillary had simply reevaluated the situation. Either way, she is catching it from both Democrats and Republicans, who charge that the presumptive Senate candidate is using her family connections to try to make friends and influence voters...
...foremost class-war prisoner, has endured 23 years of California prison hell. He was framed in the early 1970s for a murder the state knows he didn't commit. A former leader of the Black Panther Party, Geronimo was a named target of the FBI's vicious COINTELPRO campaign against black activist...
According to FOX-TV, Los Angeles D.A. Gil Garcetti has indicated that his office will review Geronimo's case. But it will take an intensified campaign of publicity and protest, centered in the integrated working class, to smash this frame...