Word: mckay
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...fact that the sleaze issue has gone bipartisan now that the dealings of House Speaker Jim Wright are under investigation by the House Ethics Committee. By the end of the month, Attorney General Edwin Meese is likely to be skewered in a report from Independent Counsel James McKay declaring that the nation's top law- enforcement officer may have violated Government regulations regarding favoritism and the appearance of impropriety. The G.O.P. response will be to rebut Meese with Wright. Vice President George Bush gave a preview last month: "You talk about Meese. How about talking about what Common Cause...
...Bill McKay and Harry Williams were company men and proud of it. Vice presidents at Ashland Oil, they had a combined 35 years of experience in the oil business. McKay earned $150,000 a year and lived with his wife and two children in a handsome four-bedroom brick house in Russell, Ky., a quiet neighborhood less than a mile from company headquarters. Williams, who lived nearby, frequently traveled to New York City and Washington as Ashland's executive in charge of corporate lobbying. In 1983, however, the two men felt they had to blow the whistle on their employer...
Independent Counsel James McKay will soon issue his report on Meese's messy finances and unseemly concern for the friends of his friend, indicted Attorney E. Robert Wallach. McKay has already said he will not recommend indictments. But the report may demonstrate ethical insensitivities on Meese's part that will send the capital into another righteous convulsion. Virtually no Cabinet officer in memory has survived such trauma. The damage to Reagan's legacy, to the Republican Party and to Vice President George Bush's troubled presidential bid has already been severe...
...concern about drugs and jobs. He was rumbling down Pennsylvania Avenue in his limousine last week when an aide showed him a piece of wire copy, quoting Connecticut's Republican Senator Lowell Weicker, who was traveling with Reagan on Air Force One. While saying he would wait for the McKay report before suggesting Meese should resign, Weicker snorted, "I've been battling the son of a bitch ever since he became Attorney General. I don't like him." Meese read the lines and chuckled. "I've known Lowell for 35 years," he said. "I went to college with...
...opposition hasn't been firmly decided for this year since initial filing deadlines are not until Tuesday. But Democrat Jack McKay, Independent Robert Alexander and Republican Glenn Fiscus have all taken out nomination papers for the race...