Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lobbyist Daniel Dutko, who represents oil and communications companies and raised over $500,000 for the party, got to sit next to the White House senior adviser on the environment and telecommunications, the Vice President. "The sense of being involved, of helping the Administration, helps my clients," Dutko says. "There's no way to deny that...
...asking for money. David sent $1,000 in October. Two months later, Thomas Mosser, a New Jersey advertising executive, was killed by a device the Unabomber had mailed from San Francisco. In February 1995, David sent Ted $2,000 more. Two months after that, Gilbert Murray, a timber-industry lobbyist, was killed by a mail bomb at his office in Sacramento, California. Ted never paid back the loans...
...named New Jersey First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Cleary to lead the team that will prosecute Kaczynski, the hot speculation was over whether the initial prosecution would take place in Cleary's state, where the Unabomber murdered advertising executive Thomas Mosser in 1994, or in California, where timber lobbyist Gilbert Murray was killed in 1995. Prosecutors could seek the death penalty in either case...
Even the recent third-grade-style antics in the State House show distinctive changes. After a bit of confusion over how to pay his taxes and what's considered a gift from a lobbyist, former Speaker of the House Charles Flaherty, a staunch Cambridge Democrat, said he will not run for re-election. In the wake of his departure, there was a bitter battle for Flaherty's position. Through a coalition of moderate Democrats and Republicans Thomas M. Finneran (D-Boston) was able to prevail over a more traditional Democratic with a strong backing...
...many years, the tobacco industry shared its wealth fairly evenly between Democrats and Republicans. Not anymore. Tobacco has chosen sides in a spectacular way. Without apology, it is now one of the biggest G.O.P. benefactors, and only a blip for the Democrats. The reason, a tobacco lobbyist says, is Bill Clinton. The President tried to tax tobacco to fund his health-care plan, and is backing increased authority by the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco...