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...September Boston magazine made public what had been an open secret in political circles: that Finkelstein, who has worked for such antigay conservatives as Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth, is gay. Also damaging are news reports suggesting that D'Amato's Senate-campaign committee has been spending money in a way that favors Finkelstein-directed races. At D'Amato's urging, several G.O.P. candidates, including Boschwitz, Senator Larry Pressler of South Dakota and Representative Dick Zimmer of New Jersey, have replaced their strategists with Finkelstein. The candidates were apparently rewarded for this: D'Amato's committee bankrolled TV attacks against...
There's more Finkel-think to come. D'Amato's committee is financing an "independent expenditure" campaign that, by virtue of being technically unaffiliated, can avoid spending limits while pummeling Democrats with ads g.o.p. candidates can later disavow. Finkelstein has played this game for years. In 1986 a federal court ruled that his National Conservative Political Action Committee violated election laws because he worked for both a Senate candidate and the supposedly independent ncpac. The beauty of this arrangement, his late ncpac colleague Terry Dolan once explained, is that "a group like ours could lie through its teeth...
Ever since, Castellanos has worked with dozens of take-no-prisoners campaigns. He is widely credited with inventing a lucrative direct-mail operation for Jesse Helms in the late 1970s. By 1978 he had become an apprentice to Arthur Finkelstein, the shadowy Republican consultant who favored scathing attack ads. He worked for Helms in 1984 and again in Helms' successful 1990 race against Charlotte's black mayor, Harvey Gantt, creating the controversial ad in which a pair of white hands are shown crumpling a pink slip as a narrator puts the onus on racial quotas. "The ads were race baiting...
...extremist last November, criticized Peres' high-minded refusal to exploit the assassination for electoral advantage. He never responded in kind to Likud's pointed, simplistic and endlessly repeated negative ads that yoked him fatally to the grisly suicide bombings; the ads were the handiwork of American political consultant Arthur Finkelstein, a reclusive strategist in New York politics who engineered similar attack campaigns for U.S. Republicans...
...librarian attempted to reach CFIA Secretary Laurence S. Finkelstein to warn him of the women, but Finkelstein never received the message...