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...Tony Coelho (D-Calif.), head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told reporters that calls to his California district office were 5-1 against Reagan...
...Facilitator" Canzeri puts on charitable events to burnish corporate images, like a celebrity tennis tournament that drew scores of Washington lobbyists and netted $450,000 for Nancy Reagan's antidrug campaign. Lobbyists, not surprisingly, work hard not just at re-electing Congressmen but also at befriending them. Congressman Tony Coelho of California describes the methods of William Cable, a former Carter Administration aide who lobbies for Timmons & Co. "Three out of four times," says Coelho, "he talks to you not about lobbying, but about sports, or tennis--I play a lot of tennis with him--or your family...
...with bringing jobs to east Texas." Later analysis suggested that many voters were bothered less by Hargett's stand on trade than by a feeling that he might not be especially bright, but at the time Democrats were convinced they had hit political pay dirt. Said California Congressman Tony Coelho, chairman of the House Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: "The issue is there. Texas One (the First District) proved that." More than a few Republicans suspected that the Democrats could very well be correct, politically if not economically. Wyoming Congressman Dick Cheney, a member of what he described as "a small...
...House gave Reagan slimmer but significant margins in the back-to-back votes (219 to 213 on Tuesday, 217 to 210 on Thursday) needed to free the MX funds. The outcome was clearly influenced by Democrats' reluctance to be seen as "soft on defense." Said California's Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee: "The only concern of those who are switching (votes to support the MX) is that the President will point a finger at them...
...Coelho complied, and he was far from the only dropout. Though the council had counted more than 40 elected officials as potential participants at the start of last week, only 23 would let their names be included in a formal list of members that the group issued a few days later. At week's end Robb, Jim Blanchard of Michigan, and Bruce Babbitt of Arizona were the only Governors remaining of ten whose names had appeared on preliminary lists (among the dropouts: Bob Graham of Florida, Bill Clinton of Arkansas, Richard Lamm of Colorado). Ohio Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar announced...