Word: coelho
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...Hills land was done not by the Department of Energy, as would usually be the case, but by a private firm, ICF Kaiser. And then, with a note of "gotcha," Cockburn throws in the fact that ICF Kaiser's chairman is former Gore campaign manager Tony Coelho...
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After 45 minutes on the phone, Daley agreed to take the job, and Gore's week started looking up again. In fact, once the smoke clears, replacing Coelho with Daley may end up being the reason this really was the week Gore turned his campaign around. Daley, a sharp political operator who is the brother of Chicago's mayor and son of the city's legendary boss Richard Daley, helped win the election for Clinton in 1992 with his handling of Illinois and the Middle West. And he has the standing to take Gore's economic message to the Sunday...
Officially, Coelho resigned for health reasons, and his maladies are real. He suffers from epileptic seizures, and checked into a Virginia hospital last week because of diverticulitis, an inflamed colon. Also, Coelho told a friend that an MRI had revealed a cyst on his brain, which may be the reason he has been suffering more frequent seizures. Tipper Gore and campaign manager Donna Brazille visited him last Tuesday; the next day, when Brazille called, Coelho told her, "It's not good...
...everyone in the Gore camp knew, even if Coelho had been healthy, he would have had to quit sooner or later. Gore's aides would have preferred him to pick a quieter moment (the Fourth of July would have been nice), but most didn't try to hide their jubilation when he left. Coelho had been a divisive figure inside Goreland, not so much because he fired top aides and cut off longtime advisers before the primaries (that was necessary) but because he was routinely imperious and ham-fisted in his dealings with staff. And he was a growing liability...