Word: lotte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spend more time beating up on welfare than figuring out how you're going to get these people covered....When you go down there [to Washington] the first vote you cast will be for [Senate Majority Leader] Trent Lott," Kerry said...
...Republicans have to be careful about making too much out of Morris, whose clients have included such conservative Republicans as North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, the new majority leader. For now, Dole campaign sources say, they are not likely to exploit the scandal in a negative television ad. "A Morris spot would anger a substantial number of Republican heavyweights," says a Dole aide. "A scandal like this is too easy to overplay. You just stay out of the way and let it do its damage...
Republicans didn't accept Morris any more than Democrats had. He got plenty of work--Trent Lott, now the Senate majority leader, talked him up in the Republican cloakroom, and Jesse Helms became his most right-wing client ever in 1990--but he was always valued, never trusted. Helms media man Alex Castellanos accused him of grabbing credit for a TV spot Castellanos had made, the infamous ad showing a pair of white hands crumpling a job-rejection notice while a voice said, "You needed that job...but they had to give it to a minority." A number of G.O.P...
...what he meant, and he says Morris talked about the Clinton peccadilloes that would become infamous during the Gennifer Flowers eruption. Morris denies the story. But operatives in four other campaigns told Time they heard Morris make similar remarks. Consultant Goodman says he was sitting with Morris in Lott's Washington office in 1994. "It was during health care, the lowest time for Clinton," Goodman recalls. "Dick said, 'It's not going to be health care that brings down Clinton. It's going to be corruption.' I'll never forget that. If I thought a guy was corrupt, I wouldn...
Those edges include talking secretly to Clinton in the fall of 1994 while working for a roster of prominent Republicans--including Lott, William Weld of Massachusetts and Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania. Morris told Clinton to prepare for a Republican rout and "get out of the way." In December 1994, when the Wall Street Journal reported that Clinton had turned to Morris for help, Morris called the story "totally fabricated" and claimed fealty to the G.O.P...