Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate hearings open this week, Washington's campaign-finance scandal has come down to this: Republican Fred Thompson wants to know if Huang, the architect of Asian fund raising and the must-see Democrat for ethnic-Chinese moguls like the CP trio, was helping funnel foreign money into Democratic coffers and sending back U.S. government secrets in return. In tracing the money and telephone connections of Huang's fund-raising world, Thompson's investigators want to know: Was he a spy for China in the guise of a Democratic moneyman? Did he funnel money from Overseas Chinese-led companies...
Nine months after evidence of foreign cash in U.S. politics surfaced in the last days of the 1996 campaign, Americans know that both Democrats and Republicans were so desperate for the unrestricted dole of "soft money" that they went overseas to find more. Either directly or through middlemen, both parties turned to Overseas Chinese businessmen with large commercial interests in the People's Republic of China for multimillion-dollar cash infusions. Both parties gave their benefactors a fair hearing on party trade policy toward China, and both maintained elaborate ruses to hide their new sources of cash. Yet the Democrats...
...were raided. Venezia was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to 15 years in prison; as he went down, he took with him the mayor of nearby Washington Park, who pleaded guilty to taking bribes. In addition, a prominent attorney was convicted of obstruction of justice, and the local Congressman, Democrat Jerry Costello, was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the cover...
...compulsion destroyed a life of on-time mortgage payments and perfect work attendance. Two of the three started behind the video-poker machines; all three ended up contemplating suicide. But Belleville remains oddly immune to the cost of its new pastime. In May a reporter from the Belleville News-Democrat found video-poker machines at 11 local fraternal clubs. A VFW post commander even admitted to paying out. Otherwise, said he, "nobody would play...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Until recently, for all of Al Gore's talk about the Information Superhighway, it's the Republicans who have been the savviest wielders of Web power, starting with such notable early efforts as Thomas, the comprehensive Congressional website named for Thomas Jefferson. Now the Democrats are catching up. When the Republicans trotted out their tax calculator to show how their tax cut proposal provides "Relief for Every Taxpayer In Every Stage of Life," the Democrats quickly swung into action with a calculator of their own. The not-so-surprising conclusion: if you're rich, have lots of kids...