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LAST WEDNESDAY WAS A BIG night for House Speaker Newt Gingrich. About 75 supporters were gathered at the Washington mansion of auto dealer Mandell Ourisman and his wife Mary, a former official of GOPAC, the political-action committee Gingrich headed until last May. The occasion was a fund raiser for his newest PAC, called Monday Morning. For a couple of pleasant hours the guests picked at their beef tenderloin, admired the Ourismans' baby grand piano and chatted up the most powerful man in Congress. At $1,000 a couple, the posh event yielded more than $30,000 in campaign money...
...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...
...impression" it created of "exploiting one's office for personal gain." Democratic whip David Bonior said he would soon file yet another complaint with the panel: that, as alleged by the Federal Election Commission, Gingrich's 1990 re-election was improperly subsidized by the political-action committee GOPAC...
...more than just a verbal commitment, the FEC charges, especially when it came to Gingrich. In its most damaging new allegation, the FEC claims that GOPAC helped Gingrich win his narrow 1990 victory by paying the salaries of consultants like committee staff director Jeffrey Eisenach, who spent as much as two-thirds of his time on "Newt support" projects. The FEC's filing also raises questions about whether Gingrich went to bat for GOPAC benefactors--potentially explosive suggestions of quid pro quos that Democrats have vowed to make the basis of a new complaint against the Speaker before the House...
...Gingrich, the potentially more damaging process would be a wide-ranging probe by an independent counsel, which Democrats have urged the Ethics Committee to appoint. The Democrats turned up the pressure last week, citing the fact that four of the five Republicans on the Ethics Committee have ties to GOPAC. Last week the committee's chairman, Nancy Johnson of Connecticut, acknowledged that she had participated in at least two GOPAC events, and had talked with individual GOPAC-recruited candidates on at least two other occasions. But Johnson insisted that her past involvement should not disqualify her from heading the committee...