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...presidential race in July. Acting largely on information provided by both Perot and Scott Barnes -- a shady storyteller with a prior conviction for tape-recording his telephone conversations with other people -- Oliver ("Buck") Revell, the head of the FBI office in Dallas, sent an undercover agent disguised as a cowboy to meet with James Oberwetter, state chairman of the Bush campaign. The cowboy claimed to be hawking a wiretap tape of some of Perot's phone conversations and other documents for $2,500. In reality, the recordings were made by Perot himself as bait for the FBI's trap...
Revell thought he had to move quickly. On Aug. 6, four days before the cowboy-agent appeared, Oberwetter was visited by Barnes, who identified himself as "Howard Parsons" and insisted that the two of them discuss the matter on a bench outdoors. Oberwetter says he refused to accept the illegal materials. What Oberwetter did not know was that the encounter was being videotaped, allegedly by a BBC correspondent named David Taylor. The video was turned over to the FBI, but without any audio, it proved nothing. Nevertheless, agents heard rumors that Taylor was preparing to air or distribute the video...
...State of Washington, stands out as an original. The 41-year-old state legislator and community-college teacher likes to call herself "a mom in tennis shoes." Going toe-to-toe on the footwear symbolism, her Republican opponent, five-time Congressman Rod Chandler, has taken to wearing cowboy boots. But no amount of heavy stomping on the campaign trail has yet put him ahead of a woman whose campaign slogan could be "Mother knows best." "I tell people I am a mom caring for two kids and two aging parents with health problems," she says. "I go to work every...
Country music, in fact -- not the typical jazzman's hard knocks in the asphalt jungle -- carried Haden into jazz. Born in Iowa, he grew up in Missouri, where his family had a daily radio show, Uncle Carl Haden and the Haden Family. Cowboy Charlie, as he came to be billed, made his debut at two; at four he was singing all the harmony parts and cutting loose with a mean yodel. Some nights, he remembers, "Mother Maybelle Carter used to rock me to sleep...
What truly gets my goat is that this Cowboy Crusader is more of a hypocrite than he charges his opponents...