Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House might have quietly dropped the battle, as it did with Warren Richardson, a onetime lobbyist for the stridently anti-Zionist Liberty Lobby, who had been nominated as an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services. Reagan also might have yielded to compromise after a quick, overwhelming defeat, as he did after the Senate's 96-to-0 rejection of his proposed Social Security cuts. But the President felt pressed to fight for Lefever, senior aides said, because the opposition to him was largely "ideological." Reagan, they added, saw the vote as a referendum on his own beliefs...
...bill was "dangerous." At a public hearing on a New Jersey bill that would ban handguns, held the day after Reagan was shot, 600 gun enthusiasts packed the hearing room. Explains one N.R.A. field representative, Lewis Elliott of Colorado: "Ours is a grassroots effort. Instead of paying a lobbyist, we just use the people...
...group of gun enthusiasts who feared that the N.R.A. was not diligent enough in its opposition to gun-control laws formed the Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Led by Lobbyist John ("Magnum") Snyder, a former Jesuit seminarian, the committee has nearly 300,000 members and a $1.7 million annual budget. Its monthly newsletter is called Point Blank. Another N.R.A. spin-off is the Second Amendment Foundation, named after the Bill of Rights provision that guarantees citizens the right to bear arms. A fourth gun lobby, the Gun Owners of America Political Action Committee...
...Author-Cardiologist Michael Halberstam,* membership jumped from 90,000 to 130,000. Sacks of mail, including donations, were arriving last week at the organization's Washington headquarters in response to ads taken out after the Reagan shooting. Handgun Control Inc. now has its own political action committee, a lobbyist and a computerized mailing list-and hopes to copy the successful strategy of the N.R.A...
...They're users. They're cruel, and they're certainly no better than I am," Paula Parkinson, 30, told the Washington Post. The 5-ft. 2-in., 100-lb. former Playboy pinup and Capitol Hill lobbyist denied rumors that she had video-taped 17 trysts, or that she kept a list of D.C. luminaries with whom she had sported. Well, one video tape and a short list of names, perhaps, none of which she would dream of using to blackmail nervous Congressmen, who have been busy pointing fingers in other directions while waiting for Parkinson...