Word: congressmen
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...BILL CLINTON MOVES TO THE WHITE HOUSE NEXT JANUARY, some established black leaders will lose influence. Clinton's strongest ties in the black community are with younger elected officials from the South, like Congressmen JOHN LEWIS of Georgia and MIKE ESPY of Mississippi, with whom he shares the experience of building black-white coalitions. Many Northern black leaders represent urban districts with far fewer whites. Observes a black friend of Clinton: "They don't have to win white votes, so they're more suspicious of Bill, particularly when he courts white Southerners...
...Washington, Mas cultivates a more moderate image. He is highly rated for being tenacious, energetic and well informed; he testifies regularly on Cuban issues, waylays Congressmen in the capital's corridors and even invites them down to Miami for intimate dinners. "At first, they thought all Cubans were drug traffickers and bomb throwers," says Francisco Hernandez, the current foundation president. "We would bring down some Congressmen so they'd see we didn't meet in smoke-filled rooms with Cubans screaming 'Kill Castro...
...foundation's political-action committee has also helped buy influence. During the past decade, Mas' members have donated $1.1 million in campaign contributions; Mas himself is the biggest Hispanic contributor nationwide. In this election year, more than $200,000 has gone to lobbying efforts and campaign contributions for sympathetic Congressmen -- mostly Democrats -- including $26,750 to New Jersey Congressman Robert Torricelli, principal sponsor of the Cuban Democracy Act. But President Bush has received the bulk of the foundation's presidential contribution: $57,000, vs. $1,750 for Clinton...
...Takano said 70 percent of Riverside residents think their county has grown too fast and like developers "about as much as they like congressmen...
Thus when Dornan and three other right-wing Congressmen called on Bush and Baker in the White House at 8 a.m. last Tuesday, they found a most attentive listener in the President. One of the Congressmen claimed the Moscow and antiwar issues could "kill Clinton." The very next day Bush was on the King show demanding that his opponent come clean about his trip to the U.S.S.R. In a phrase heavy with innuendo, the President added, "I don't want to tell you what I really think, because I don't have the facts . . . but to go to Moscow...