Word: coelho
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...Tony Coelho was Al Gore's dark side, a champion fund-raiser and short-tempered manager who couldn't even go on the Sunday talkies for fear of getting asked about the pending State and Justice Department investigations into his ethics...
...accounts, he whipped a flabby Gore operation into something like fighting trim by cutting costs, establishing a chain of command and getting Gore to loosen his iron grip on campaign minutiae. Coelho made the Gore campaign what it is today - shape-shifting, unsure of how best to proceed, but very much within striking distance of George W. Bush...
...legendary Chicago mayor/ boss/ kingmaker Richard Daley) implies all that it should about Daley. TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty calls him "a total nuts-and-bolts political mind, with a very clear sense of what works and what doesn't." Toting none of Coelho's ethical baggage, Daley's also fit for surrogate duties in front of the cameras, and, one assumes, a nicer guy to have around the Nashville digs. As Tumulty says, "the stylistic differences couldn't be greater." We read...
...Staff morale suffered because of what many said was Coelho's autocratic leadership style, and he is under continuing investigation by the Justice and State Departments for his activities as head of the U.S. participation in Portugal's 1998 Expo. A Justice Department prosecutor is deciding whether to begin bringing witnesses before the grand jury in the probe, which involves questions about whether Coelho misused government resources...
...Coelho was reported to be weary of what one source close to the campaign "backbiting" and rumors. But his health was the most imminent concern. Coelho began experiencing abdominal pain late last week, and was admitted to the hospital on Monday, where he has remained. According to campaign sources he has an inflamed colon and is on a liquid diet...