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...Crimson's ludicrous accusation that "Supply-side economics has been ridiculed by every economist except Jack Kemp...," I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that Nobel laureates Gary Becker and Milton Friedman, both of whom have endorsed the Dole tax cut plan, aren't credible enough for The Crimson. And perhaps John F. Kennedy '40, who said on September 18, 1963 that "By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance," doesn't meet the Crimson's exacting standards--despite having been a Crimson editor. But what about...
...testified at hearings of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime about links between organized crime and labor unions, including one headed by a major supporter of Bill Clinton's. They may have different words for him now that Fino has linked another name to the mob--Jack Kemp...
Fino has told FBI investigators and Democratic committee staff members about a Buffalo, New York, hotel developer, James Cosentino, who was a Kemp friend and contributor. (Documents from the Federal Election Commission show that Cosentino and his family gave $6,300 to Kemp's campaign in the mid-'80s.) According to Fino, Cosentino was tied to the mob--a charge he denies. In the 1980s, when Kemp was a Buffalo Congressman, Cosentino allegedly got at least $5 million in loans for a hotel construction project from a pension fund of the Buffalo local of the Laborers' International Union of North...
According to Fino, Kemp once asked him point blank whether Cosentino was connected to the mob (Fino says he told him yes), but Fino is hazy about when this exchange took place. Alixe Glen, Kemp's spokeswoman, calls the allegations "unfounded" and "politically motivated." Representative John Conyers of Michigan, the Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, has formally requested that the committee bring Fino back to Washington for questioning...
With the presidential elections quickly approaching, the IOP has also issued invitations to Robert J. and Elizabeth H. Dole and Jack F. Kemp, Campion said...