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...said we were going to win the Ivies Captain Maggie Hart said after Saturday win, "and they called me presumptuous...
...forefront is Hart, who added five goals on Saturday and who's sure bet to become the Ivy Player of the Year...
...convention. But more than technicalities were involved. The controversy undercut the pledge Mondale made early in his candidacy that he would not accept PAC contributions and raised anew questions about how beholden he is to organized labor. Mondale took the matter so seriously that when Colorado Senator Gary Hart began taunting him for not actually returning the funds ("Give the money back, Walter-that's the way to solve the problem"), the former Vice President agreed to do almost exactly that. He announced that he will order the delegate committees to return all PAC money and some other contributions...
...this was an open invitation for committees to seek hefty donations from labor-union PACs. Many delegate groups did: of the contributions to committees recorded so far, more than 80% came from labor PACs. The delegate committees assumed an Important role in February following Mondale's loss to Hart in New Hampshire. In his successful Pennsylvania primary race, for example, Mondale pared his own campaign's expenses to about $200,000, but his delegate committees added 50% to that. Moreover, workers laid off from his national staff began popping up in paid positions-more than...
Fred Wertheimer, president of the nonpartisan Common Cause, accused the Mondale committees of "threatening the integrity of the presidential public financing system." Hart filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, charging that the groups were violating federal laws; a ruling is not expected before June. The Coloradan also taped a series of radio and TV spots asking, "Can a President act in our national interest when he owes so much to special interests...