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...DOLE Auditors say his campaign overspent and should pay back $17.7 mil. And he didn't even...
...paraphrase another Arizona legislator, humor in the defense of politics is no vice. On the other hand, it can take you only so far in national politics. Just ask Bob Dole, a genuinely funny man. And just ask Morris Udall, the 30-year congressman and presidential wannabe who died Sunday at the age of 76 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. His quick, self-deprecating wit helped Udall make it through a series of disappointments while trying for higher office, including a disastrous attempt at the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976. A story Udall told for years afterward...
...make a federal case out of it. That's essentially what the Federal Election Commission told its own auditors today, when the commissioners unanimously refused to order the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Bob Dole to repay millions of dollars used to buy general party ads. The auditors had asked that the Clinton organization repay $7 million and the Dole organization $17.7 million for exceeding campaign spending limits...
...rejected the idea of running as a vice presidential candidate in 2000, though she was on Bob Dole's short list of running mates...
This knack for covering all political bases carries all the way to the top of the Fanjul empire. Alfonso Fanjul served as co-chairman of Bill Clinton's Florida campaign in 1992. His brother Pepe was national vice chairman of finance for Bob Dole's presidential campaign in 1996 and was host to a $1,000-a-head fund raiser for Dole at his Palm Beach mansion. After Clinton's 1992 victory, Alfie was a member of the select group invited by the Clinton camp to attend the President-elect's "economic summit" in Little Rock...