Word: helpful
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Long's bill, however, offers no solution to the problem. It aids the one set of candidates who don't need help: presidential nominees. The bill enables voters to contribute one tax dollar to a presidential campaign fund by checking a box on their income tax form. The money would be divided between the national committees of the major parties. A third party could share the funds if it polled more than five million votes in the previous presidential ballot...
Long's bill is not merely superfluous; it is dangerous. Giving money to the national committee would immeasurably increase party power at the national level; the bill would, as Senator Gore has pointed out, create national political party slush funds that committees could use to help state and local candidates of their choice. Critics have been so loud and insistent on this point that Long has proposed, in a "perfecting amendment," that the money go directly to a presidential candidate, instead of to his party's national committee. To prevent the nominees from using the money to buy local candidates...
...budget would allow PBH to hire more part-time professional consultants, who are needed to help in its increasingly close work with neighborhood families and in its mental hospital programs...
...part for parking, in part as malls, with benches, fountains, sandboxes or whatever residents recommend. A building in the middle of the area will be purchased to house such facilities as day-care centers for toddlers. Ideas for a staff: A maintenance man to keep the area clean and help residents with minor carpentry projects, and an advisor to field questions about loans and the like, or channel complaints to proper agencies...
...former Deputy Defense Secy. Roswell Gilpatrick, and a number of others perfectly wiling to do Kennedy or Javits a favor. D & S will supervise overall planning; members were picked who would have the contacts to persuade banks to give loans and convince businesses to move in, the expertise to help residents set up their own enterprises, and the political clout to see that the community gets what it wants...