Word: moneymen
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...take a number of years for the politicians and moneymen to understand and adapt to all these power shifts. Along the way, you can bet on them looking for loopholes to exploit...
...Bush is in a bind--caught between his principles and moneymen on one side and the prospect of summertime blackouts, spiraling prices and mutinous legislators on the other. He needs a way out, and may have found one. This week a little-known agency called the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission meets in a special session, its first with two new Bush appointees in place. For the past year, FERC has ignored pleas for sweeping electricity price controls in California and other Western states. Last fall, at a congressional subcommittee hearing in San Diego, chairman Curtis Hebert suggested that consumers should...
...real negotiations were under way elsewhere. Sources tell TIME that political adviser Karl Rove met privately with outgoing Republican mayor Richard Riordan to press him to enter next year's race for Governor against Davis. Rove and top Republicans have kept the pressure on, letting Riordan know that Bush moneymen are waiting with checks if he gets in, and sharing G.O.P. polls with him that show Davis may have been fatally wounded by his handling of the crisis. While the Governor claims he inherited the state's deregulation mess, even Democrats accuse him of ignoring it until...
...signs on, there is still the chance that the Supreme Court will strike down part of the bill, as it did with the reforms of a generation ago. The post-Watergate effort to tidy our politics only had the effect of brushing dirt into different corners. Last week party moneymen were looking for loopholes. "Anybody who thinks you'll have less money in politics as a result is just unrealistic," says Hagel. "The money will just go outside the system." A Democratic fund raiser in California jokes that in the short run wealthy people "may save some money...
...signs on, there is still the chance that the Supreme Court will strike down part of the bill, as it did with the reforms of a generation ago. The post-Watergate effort to tidy our politics only had the effect of brushing dirt into different corners. Last week party moneymen were looking for loopholes. "Anybody who thinks you'll have less money in politics as a result is just unrealistic," says Hagel. "The money will just go outside the system." A Democratic fund raiser in California jokes that in the short run wealthy people "may save some money...