Word: kachigian
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...California strategy grew out of a series of top-level conversations that began last month. Along with Barbour and Gingrich, the chief backers of the plan have been Dole's campaign Californians: running mate Kemp and consultants John Sears and Ken Kachigian, plus Merksamer. On Oct. 12, the candidate finally signed on during a long meeting at his Washington headquarters. By the time of his debate with Clinton the following Wednesday night, Dole was salting his remarks with references to California's hot-button issues: affirmative action, illegal immigration and defense-spending cuts...
...subject, and a movie, that Bennett had urged upon Dole--the two men spent several days on the road together. The night before the speech, Dole invited Bennett to a meeting at the Hotel Sofitel in Los Angeles. With his press secretary Nelson Warfield and California campaign chief Ken Kachigian also in the room, Dole talked mainly about his upcoming tax-cut proposals. When he asked Bennett how best to sell them to the public, Bennett was ready. "The person to push this economic plan," he said, "is Jack Kemp...
...points. Over Diet Cokes, Nixon reminded Wilson that as the Governor of California, he was automatically presidential timber. Nixon thought the moderate side of Wilson-his pro-choice stand, for instance-would be attractive to Democratic voters. And Wilson? "He was the would-be Jedi knight," recalls Ken Kachigian, a close Nixon adviser who was there, "kneeling at the foot of the master, as Yoda spouted wisdom...
...current job as Governor may also be his impediment. Wilson is a prodigious fund raiser, but as ally Kachigian points out, "having just raised $26 million for the Governor's race, can he really go back to the well all over again and say, 'Oh, now I have to raise more money to run for President'?" Most important, powerful Republicans in Sacramento are pressuring Wilson not to relinquish the governorship to the capable but liberal Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Gray Davis. Wilson, however, has a history of overcoming tactical ob-stacles with the grit of a Marine platoon leader showing recruits...
...them at a 42-42 tie) by providing his unscripted musings to print journalists. He did it with an outsized pile of Houston oil money ($5 million in his congressional race and more than $10 million so far this year) and a team of high-priced packagers -- Ken Kachigian and Lyn Nofziger (both political consultants to Ronald Reagan), the formerly disgraced Ed Rollins (who claimed, then later denied that he paid black ministers for their indifference to help his New Jersey gubernatorial candidate) and admaker Larry McCarthy (of Willie Horton fame). They have made him virtually tamperproof. Republican Congressman Robert...