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Democrats prefer to remember the 1988 investigation of House Speaker Jim Wright, whose chief accuser was Gingrich. Then too the ethics committee dismissed nearly all complaints against Wright but asked for a special counsel to investigate the remaining one. Eventually the counsel requested and was granted the authority to look wherever he felt he needed to. More harmful disclosures ensued. Wright resigned. Calculating the prospects for Gingrich, House minority whip David Bonior of Michigan assumed his most sepulchral tones: "As time passes, the gravity of the situation will...
...ethics committee decision came a week after the Federal Election Commission released thousands of pages of documents in a civil lawsuit charging, among other things, that GOPAC spent $250,000 to fund Gingrich's re-election at a time when it was barred by law from involvement in federal races. House Democrats plan to use the documents as a basis for at least one new complaint before the ethics committee, including one that GOPAC donors got return favors from Gingrich. None of this will help stay the collapse of the Speaker's general popularity. In a Time/cnn poll conducted last...
...even if the special counsel absolves him of wrongdoing, what may be more harmful to Gingrich and his party is the fully lawful success he has had in refining the G.O.P. fund-raising machine, a triumph that has every potential to offend reform-minded voters. By drawing tens of millions of dollars to the Republican campaign chests, Gingrich and the G.O.P. congressional leadership have kept Washington awestruck for months. Republicans came to town promising to decontaminate the political process, to rid it of the corrupting pursuit of "special-interest" money, a chase in which Democrats were the undisputed frontrunners...
...head of the National Milk Producers Federation scheduled a $1,000-a-head fund raiser for Representative Gerald Solomon, the New York Republican largely responsible for the revisions they had been seeking. All sides say they did nothing wrong. Democrats say it still amounts to business as usual. "Newt Gingrich has done a booming business in special-interest quid pro quos," says Don Fowler, co-chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
...weakening environmental laws or workplace safety regulations, for instance, or making it harder to take manufacturers to court--corporate money probably would have found its way to their side even if the Republicans had done nothing more than leave a night-deposit box on the Capitol steps. But under Gingrich they have been much more aggressive. One of his chief enforcers is majority whip Tom DeLay of Texas, the third-ranking Republican in the House. DeLay is famous around Washington these days for "the book" he keeps in his office. It lists how much each of the 400 largest pacs...