Word: lobbyists
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...list twice, Maraniss writes, trying to figure out which women might tell their stories to the press; at the end, Wright advised the Governor not to run. Wright also expressed concern ``that some state troopers were soliciting women for him and he for them.'' Wright, now a Washington lobbyist, issued a statement last week saying Maraniss ``misunderstood what I told him about the troopers...
...This phenomenon has increased tremendously over the last two years at both the high school and elementary level," says Robert Peck, a lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union. "A lot of new legislators, not only at the Congressional but at the state and local levels, including school boards, fear being swept out of office by those who are loud advocates of book banning. And it's a much more sophisticated effort than we saw ten years...
...more trust in themselves than in authority figures. In the 1994 Monitor survey, 80% expressed strong confidence in their own abilities, up 8 points from the previous year. The new measure of success, a growing majority declared, is being in control of their lives. Says Roger Conner, a Washington lobbyist for community organizations: ``Responsibility is the key word for the '90s.'' For better and for worse, that renewed self-reliance is reshaping the way Americans educate their children, protect their families, invest their savings, run their communities, maintain their health and view their government...
Given that accurate information, rationally processed, often leads people to undermine the public good, how excited should we be about Gingrich's Thomas, the online data base of congressional documents? Granted, there may not be a lobbyist manipulating the data flow. But that does not mean interest-group politics won't result. In cyberspace, technology may have finally reached a point where groups form spontaneously; on the Internet, passing information to a neighbor of like interest is a push-button exercise and can easily trigger a chain reaction. The result is a mass mailing that requires neither a centralized mass...
...most insignificant meeting in the history of the world," says Murdoch lobbyist Preston Padden, who had arranged the Nov. 28 chat. Indeed it might have been, except that a few weeks later, Murdoch's publishing house HarperCollins agreed to give Gingrich a $4.5 million advance to write two books. In the ensuing controversy, Gingrich decided to give up all but $1 of the advance and collect only royalties. However, the disclosure last week that Murdoch and Gingrich had met in person reignited criticism of the Speaker's book deal, for which he could still earn millions of dollars while...