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...Herman, Republicans want to know how much she knew about all the telephone tag being played between her Office of Public Liaison at the White House and the fund raisers at the D.N.C. Herman was in charge of "outreach" to various ethnic groups--an effort that White House documents show included fund raising in some cases. Republican Senators are particularly interested in Herman's relationship with Huang, the D.N.C. fund raiser who once worked for the Lippo Group of Indonesia and who made 76 visits to the White House, sometimes to see Clinton, sometimes to see Ickes and sometimes...
...White House officials aren't barred from working on campaigns, but they aren't allowed to work on fund raising. Yet in several Clinton-Gore campaign-strategy documents produced by Herman's office and released last Friday by the White House, fund-raising plans are discussed in detail. In one document, a blueprint for organizing the "Asian Pacific American Community," the fund-raising section was written by Huang and dictated to a staff member in Matsui's office. It included a $7 million goal for donations from Asian Americans...
...White House leaked the documents pre-emptively last week to deprive Senate Republicans of an ambush at Herman's hearings. White House special counsel Lanny Davis admitted that some portions were produced in Herman's office, either on government time or on government equipment, but added that the Clinton-Gore campaign had recently reimbursed taxpayers for the cost. Davis could not say whether Herman had seen the documents, much less okayed them, before they were forwarded to Ickes last February...
Clinton has already fought for Herman once. AFL-CIO chief John Sweeney opposed her nomination last fall, favoring former Pennsylvania Senator Harris Wofford instead. Jesse Jackson personally lobbied Sweeney on Herman's behalf, but that isn't what changed the labor chief's mind; after a bruising role in getting Clinton re-elected, Sweeney simply wasn't in the mood for a fight. Now that Herman faces confirmation trouble, Clinton has turned to Washington lobbyists Michael Berman and Patrick Griffin to help shepherd her nomination...
...White House official is worried that Trent Lott's Republicans are setting up two pins to knock one down. More likely, the G.O.P. will decide just to rough up both candidates a bit. If so, Herman has at least one advantage: one of her first accomplishments as a labor activist some 25 years ago was finding jobs for unemployed teenagers from Mobile--at a shipyard in nearby Pascagoula, Mississippi, where Lott's dad was a pipefitter...