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Princeton inbounded the ball, dribbled it up the court and then Mitch Henderson, Princeton's starting shooting guard, turned it over as junior Michael Scott stole the ball...
Feingold refers to the ringleader of the resistance, Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell, as "the Grim Reaper of campaign-finance reform." But majority leader Trent Lott is the key player, and he resists reforms like free TV time for candidates and public financing of campaigns, which he calls "food stamps for politicians." Feingold insists that Lott doesn't "want to be tagged as the person who killed campaign reform. He's leaving the door open." But privately, aides to the G.O.P. leadership say it's pretty well shut...
...case of campaign-finance reform, Clinton may not care; Gore's need to raise money for 2000 clashes with Clinton's desire to rehabilitate himself on the issue. Since Clinton knows that Senator Mitch McConnell and other Republicans will throw themselves in the way of any reform bill, Clinton can push for it without having to concern himself that it will actually happen. To prove he's serious about the matter, Clinton would have to go beyond a legislative proposal and orchestrate an immense grass-roots campaign, a full-throated national roar so long and loud that reform becomes inevitable...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Crippling the nation with exploding deficits isn't the way to create opportunity and jobs, no matter what Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich or Mitch McConnell promises in the guise...
...MITCH MCCONNELL (R) JUNIOR SENATOR...