Word: ed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...post-election breakfast, Ed Rollins, campaign manager for Gov.-elect Christine Todd Whitman, declared quite openly that he had used $500,000 to pay off Black ministers in New Jersey so they wouldn't press their congregations to the polls. If Rollins had been enjoying bacon and eggs at home and talking privately to his wife about his shenanigans, some shrewd investigative reporting might have unearthed the story. But Rollins was in Washington D.C., and he was eating with a gaggle of journalists at a public occasion when he casually revealed his plot...
...people make the same "mistake." Rollins has explained his comments as lies intended to rile James Carville, the campaign manager of former governor and Whitman opponent Jim Florio. (You might recall Carville as the guy who engineered the defeat of Perot and one notable Republican a year ago.) Is Ed Rollins, pundit par excellence, really stupid and immature enough to say things that could get him arrested just to dig at Jim Carville? Luckily, the Democratic State Committee of New Jersey and the F.B.I. have not called off the dogs...
This time Ed Rollins swore he was telling the truth. His earlier contention that the Republican Party had doled out $500,000 to suppress the black vote in New Jersey's gubernatorial election had been a political boast, he said last week, concocted as a "head game" with his rival political strategist, James Carville. That was Rollins' explanation last week for earlier remarks that had touched off a furor following Republican Christine Todd Whitman's narrow victory over incumbent Democrat James Florio...
...Proulx's early editors, Ed Gray, founder of Gray's Sporting Journal, has things almost exactly right in his analysis of her extreme characters and situations: "She shocks you with them at the beginning and then proceeds to have you ride with them through something you couldn't have imagined them going through, or you going through as a reader, until at the end there is some sort of state of grace that's achieved...
...addition, at the Harvard football team's end-of-season banquet Monday, junior Ed Kinney was named the 121st captain of the team and Giardi took home the team's MVP trophy for the second time in three years--the first player ever...