Word: doles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Democrats may have little fear of a Dole upset win, but they are worried that Republicans in tight House races will finally start campaigning on the line that they should be sent to Washington as a check on Clinton in his second term. Voters were not exactly wild about the first two years of the Clinton Administration, when he got a Democratic Congress and they got a very big health-care proposal but not the tax cut or welfare reform he had promised. Now pollsters for both parties are finding a significant quirk when people are asked, all other things...
Should G.O.P. candidates write off Dole to save the House? It's a tactic that could work all too well. If they convince enough Republican voters that Dole is a lost cause, these voters may stay home on Election Day. So it's a dangerous game. But for a party that faces a very bleak November, what other kind of game is left...
...disappearing, Lee unintentionally handed Bob Dole a gift. Lee's cash-and-carry approach exposed one of the most glaring loopholes in campaign-finance law and gave the Republican candidate fresh ammunition to use in his effort to scare up questions about the President's alleged corruptibility. "Here's a President who often talks about a bridge to the future; more often it seems it's a bridge to wealthy political donors,'' said Dole. "It goes through a Laundromat first and takes a left at the Democratic National Committee and then rolls all the way down to the Oval Office...
Even before they heard Dole's feisty rhetoric, officials at the D.N.C. were spooked enough to go into damage control. On Friday they asked the Federal Election Commission to begin investigating the matter. Then they suspended John Huang, the maverick D.N.C. vice chairman who had not just drummed up Lee's contribution but made a Washington career out of raising small fortunes, $4 million to $5 million this year alone, from his network of Asian contacts. Two years ago, he made a smart landing at the Commerce Department, where, as a trade official, he cultivated a group of Asian businessmen...
Last week Dole and his G.O.P. colleagues cast indignant scrutiny on the most ornate of the foreign-money controversies, in which donors connected with an Indonesian conglomerate gave large sums to the D.N.C. While no money-for-favors linkage was immediately apparent, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republicans called for a probe into the curious circumstances. Among them: Last year the White House sent a routine get-well card to Hashim Ning, co-founder and major shareholder of the Lippo Group, a $6 billion insurance, banking and real estate empire controlled by Indonesian patriarch Mochtar Riady. Not long after...