Word: campaigned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very best part about campaign contributions is that they don't have to be spent on campaigns. Colorado's Democratic Senator Tim Wirth used his campaign fund to fly himself and his wife to the 1987 Super Bowl. Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii used $14,053 for restaurant meals -- some of which, according to receipts submitted, curiously took place at Circuit City, an electronics-equipment store. North Carolina's Democratic Congressman Charles Rose bought a Jeep. South Dakota's Democratic Senator Larry Pressler had a Canada goose stuffed for $225.75, because he felt it would promote goose hunting...
Like honorariums, campaign money follows power. Of the $172.4 million in political action committee contributions in 1988, fully 70% went to incumbents. Nor did the money stop flowing when the election was over: $2.4 million went to incumbents after last Nov. 9. Senate Finance chairman Lloyd Bentsen collected the most PAC money -- $2.4 million -- demonstrating that he didn't really need to organize that $10,000 breakfast club. Richard Gephardt, Tom Foley's probable replacement as Democratic majority leader, led House members with $610,107. Agriculture Committee member Bill Emerson followed with $579,478, Tom Foley with...
...more and more thrift executives got into trouble in 1987 and 1988, S & L PACs simply stepped up their campaign giving; by the time Washington finally got around to addressing the S & L crisis this year, the cost of a bailout had swollen to an outrageous $158 billion or more over the next eleven years. Over the past three elections, according to the Wall Street Journal, the S & Ls gave $4.5 million to the members of Congress willing to protect them. House Banking Committee member Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican who refuses to take PAC money, believes this...
...raise keyed to automatic cost of living increases -- in exchange for a total loophole-proof ban on honorariums, gifts and free trips -- looks like a bargain when put up against, say, the average $14 billion annual cost of the S & L bailout. Some degree of public financing of campaigns might also help cut the umbilical cord between Congress and special interests, but last year campaign-reform efforts bogged down in partisan fighting and constitutional questions. This year the issue is hopelessly deadlocked...
...force was swiftly applied to suppress ethnic minorities that had supported the revolution in hopes of gaining greater cultural and political autonomy. The excesses led to nearly 10,000 executions -- some put the actual figure as high as 20,000 -- and tens of thousands of arrests. This provoked a campaign of assassination by dissident Islamic guerrillas that eliminated hundreds of top members of the Ayatullah's regime...