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...Journalists gorged themselves on a hundred hours of White House videotape, only to toss their napkins aside and pronounce the Clinton donor meetings profoundly unsatisfying and far too wholesome for their own good, like a mile-high pile of lettuce leaves...
...their Teamster friends didn't try to make it happen. Chicago businessman Mark Thomann, who worked for the D.N.C. as a fund raiser in 1996, has told TIME that he was directed by the party's finance chief to deliver to the Carey team $100,000 from a foreign donor and that he was pressured to follow through by a Teamster lawyer sent his way by D.N.C. officials in Washington. Thomann's story, told to federal prosecutors as well as to Senate investigators, is the most solid evidence yet that party officials actively participated in the scheme before it went...
What Thomann didn't know was the chain of events that had begun weeks earlier when a Carey campaign consultant, Martin Davis, approached a top Democratic fund raiser, Laura Hartigan, with the plan for the lopsided contribution swap. Hartigan, in turn, pressed Sullivan to find a big donor for the Carey campaign to carry out the D.N.C.'s part of the bargain. The Teamsters, meanwhile, kept their word, sending an initial $236,000 to Democratic parties in 35 states at the end of the month, according to court papers...
...individuals and special-interest groups. Of the record $2 billion spent by both parties and their outside supporters in campaign '96, close to $160 million came from unions and such groups as the Christian Coalition, the National Rifle Association and the Sierra Club. And unlike political parties, whose donor lists and spending are monitored by the Federal Election Commission, advocacy groups don't have to disclose a thing. "Instead of pushing things out into the open, [McCain-Feingold] would push money into the obscure corners of the political process," says Paul Wilson, a G.O.P. political consultant...
...have said, "Look at the plight of this one man; there are many more like him who could use your support." Organizers could have highlighted the dismal fact that only 3,000,000 people-barely more than one percent of the U.S. population-are registered in the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP). (By contrast, over two-and-a-half percent of Asian Americans, or 200,000 Asians, are registered in the NMDP.) Organizers could have actively encouraged every able-bodied member of the Harvard community to register their tissue type. But they didn...