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Archer held a meeting with the task force Oct. 20 and once more backed off the stricter limits. On the same day, Tom Loeffler, a former Texas Congressman hired as a Washington lobbyist for Metabolife, contributed $25,000 to the Bush gubernatorial campaign. Loeffler, a mentor for Bush, has given $141,000 to his gubernatorial races and raised at least $100,000 for his presidential bid. He did not return phone calls seeking comment. Nor did his partner Jonas. For his part, Wentworth told TIME, "I'm not aware of any coordinating of contributions to get a meeting with...
...favorite Representative Rick Lazio, the tousle-haired Long Islander who wanted to challenge Giuliani for the nomination until Pataki made him back off. If Giuliani steps aside, says the Pataki adviser, "it's gonna be Rick. All the other names are bulls___." Those names include Peter King, the voluble Congressman who last week was busy working up interest in his candidacy; and Ted Forstmann, a millionaire financier known for his $50 million voucher program to send poor children to private schools. Forstmann's appeal lies in the fact that he could pay his own way, but G.O.P. strategists insist money...
...done. "He's got a stature gap to close," he says. "But while he doesn't have Giuliani's strengths, he doesn't have his weaknesses either." Of course, name recognition - and national ink - in this race may not be a problem for long. And the young, handsome, likable congressman from suburban Long Island is a good moderate-to-conservative Republican, with none of Rudy's enemies in the state GOP and fewer problems with Republicans in upstate New York, where Giuliani was almost as much of a carpetbagger from Manhattan as Clinton is from Washington. Lazio backed Newt Gingrich...
...party are worried about whether Gore's campaign team is ready for the general-election brawl. Renewed infighting and finger pointing have brought fresh doubts about the cadre that is taking over the national campaign machinery--doubts largely centered on Gore campaign chairman Tony Coelho, a former California Congressman with a 20-year history of generating both intense loyalties and animosities. "It's not something you worry about," Coelho declared in an interview last week. "You've got decisions to make, and you make them. The campaign can't be run by 100 outsiders...
...Yanks didn't do any better. On Capitol Hill, crippled e-mail systems forced an atypical silence in the halls of Congress, as well as some unusual scrambling. Arriving early on a day dominated by the death of John Cardinal O'Connor, New York Congressman Joseph Crowley's press secretary, Josh Straka, logged on to his computer only to unleash the bug. He spent the rest of the day manually faxing press releases. "My stress level was through the roof," he says...