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...second term, the Clinton campaign must get women to the polls. And the key to doing that may be Ellen Malcolm. "EMILY's List has become the entrepreneurial life-force of the Democratic Party," says the blunt, sometimes blustery Malcolm, 49. Once a staff member in Jimmy Carter's White House, she founded EMILY--short for "Early Money Is Like Yeast (it makes the dough rise)"--in 1985 because she was disgusted by how few women were getting elected. Her idea was simple: recruit, train and endorse pro-choice Democratic women candidates, then get women around the country to give...
...years ago, someone sent Pamela Liapakis a batch of literature inviting her to join EMILY's List. But Liapakis was preoccupied. Her own 54,000-member Association of Trial Lawyers of America was busy showering Democrats with money. Lawyers poured $2.5 million into Clinton's re-election effort last year, more than any other occupational group. (Liapakis' own firm gave $100,000 to the Democratic Party.) The trial lawyers' association has been trying to beat back an array of state and federal tort-reform measures, but, despite its best efforts, a bill limiting damages in product-liability suits cleared Congress...
While slugging it out over legislation, Liapakis, a 49-year-old New Yorker whose father ran a bar near Ebbets Field, has kept the next election in sight--and emily's List in mind. In fact, she is planning to apply some of emily's tactics to the trial lawyers. Her association has asked the Federal Election Commission for an O.K. to begin "partisan communications" with its members, in which the group would endorse candidates and recommend both the timing and amount of contributions. Liapakis, who learned litigation from personal-injury pioneer Harry Lipsig, describes her plan in terms...
...important larger bill I just couldn't reject." A tough President will be able to nix $1.4 million for a National Swine Research Center, or $1 million to study the brown tree snake, which is found only on Pacific islands, or other millions of dollars for, well, the list is endless. This is how it will work...
...President will have five days to list those items he views as objectionable and refuse to fund them...