Word: coelho
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Normally, when the inspector general of a government department conducts an investigation, the Justice Department waits for a formal criminal referral before getting involved. Not so with the State Department's deepening criminal probe into questionable dealings by Al Gore's campaign chairman, Tony Coelho, a Justice source tells TIME. Why the unusual coordination between the two? "To be honest," says a high-ranking Justice official, "because it looks like there might be something there." So Justice wants the initial investigation handled carefully...
...probe involves allegations that Coelho misused government funds while heading up the U.S. mission to the 1998 World Exposition in Portugal. After new details were disclosed by National Journal last week, Gore responded by saying Coelho was doing a "terrific job" and would continue as chairman...
That task fell to Coelho, the wiry, intense former Congressman and backroom operator who had joined Gore's team in June. Coelho had been working to wrest Gore free from the office he inhabited. That was harder than it may sound. The Vice President's staff had such a tight grip on the candidate that top campaign officials sometimes couldn't get Gore's schedule. Coelho banished nearly all the White House aides from Air Force Two and froze out Gore's small army of ad hoc advisers--a dozen former aides who currently work as lobbyists, and showed...
...poll showing that Bradley had "vaulted into a virtual tie" in New Hampshire, with many voters "voicing eagerness for political change despite the region's prosperity." Gore's advisers, who had been conducting only nationwide polls, were stunned. They had assumed they were 20 points ahead in New Hampshire. Coelho dispatched field manager Michael Whouley to the state to find out whether the situation was really that bad. Whouley discovered it was worse. Bradley volunteers had been knocking on doors since the summer, while Gore floated through the state in 20-car motorcades, aloof and distant, connecting with...
...months Gore had been thinking about a dramatic move to shake things up. Now he was ready to make it happen. Leaving a Maryland fund raiser, Gore quietly asked Coelho if he would ride home with him. Back at the residence, they summoned Eskew and roused Gore's new chief of staff, Charles Burson, from bed. Gore wanted to move the campaign to Nashville, Tenn. Setting up his headquarters on K Street in Washington had been a huge mistake--a symbol of a clueless inside-the-Beltway campaign. But the problem was that no one knew...