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...Michael McDade, who earned a Bronze Star fighting in Vietnam, came to believe the war was an unwinnable folly. But opposition to the conflict never got him marching in protest. Nor did Watergate prompt him to activism, even though he grew so disgusted he "no longer felt allegiance to the government." What did radicalize him, he says, was "having to bundle up and transport my increasingly ill lover to a welfare office every few months so bureaucrats could go through the pointless charade of recertifying a dying man's disability to work." So he began to join group after group...
...anger, his politicization and his activism, McDade embodies the experience of many of the country's 10 million adult gay men. They feel they have been living through a war, watching comrades fall by the battalion. During the dozen years of the AIDS epidemic, they have witnessed the premature death of virtually a generation of leaders, role models, neighbors and friends. While some gay men have been touched by unexpected compassion from heterosexual acquaintances, a majority have been embittered by what they see as widespread hostility or neglect. They overwhelmingly believe that government at all levels has scorned and abandoned...
THERE AREN'T MANY CONGRESSIONAL BODIES MORE powerful than the House Appropriations Committee, a fat channel through which billions of dollars in federal contracts flow. A federal grand jury charged Representative Joseph McDade, a 15-term Congressman from Pennsylvania and the committee's ranking Republican, with greasing that channel for some special friends in return for $100,000 in bribes...
...indictment states that, during a five-year period in the 1980s, McDade accepted money, air travel, use of vacation houses, even a golf umbrella from five manufacturers in exchange for help in obtaining defense contracts. Among the companies seeking favors were Sperry (now Unisys), Grumman and United Chem-Con, a now defunct contractor based in Lancaster, Penn. McDade -- who ran unopposed for his party's renomination two weeks ago and won the Democratic nomination as well on a write-in vote -- denied the charges, saying the investigation had turned his life into "a living nightmare...
...McDade misused his House position in a way that Frank never did, and he hasn't received one-thousandth of the publicity. Frank paid the prostitute out of personal funds and only gave him Congressional privileges when performing legitimate business...