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...some California unions have backed the controversial initiative to legalize medical marijuana and opposed the popular referendum on illegal aliens. "This is one of those issues, like term limits, racial preferences and tax reform, that can't move through Washington, so it's moving through the states," says Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform...
What do Michael E. Kinsley '72, Grover G. Norquist '78 and Susan C. Faludi '81 have in common besides Harvard diplomas? All three were Crimson editors who espoused passionate and divergent political views during their undergraduate years...
...last weeks of the '96 race, Americans for Tax Reform, a nonprofit group headed by Grover Norquist, paid for a campaign burnishing the Republican image on the Medicare issue as well as an ad attacking New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Torricelli. About the same time, Norquist's group received $4.6 million from the G.O.P. Norquist and party officials have denied coordinating their efforts. But bank records reviewed by TIME show that four days after a $2 million G.O.P. infusion, Americans for Tax Reform paid $280,000 to buy time for the anti-Torricelli ad, an expense the group could...
Other documents turned over to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee by Bob Dole's presidential campaign further erode Norquist's protestations of independence. R.N.C. deputy finance director and close Dole adviser Jo-Anne Coe directed a $100,000 contribution to Norquist's group from banana baron Carl Lindner two weeks before the election. "Keep up the good work," she wrote Norquist. Norquist did not return a telephone call seeking comment. An R.N.C. spokesman said the party never dictated the use of money given to Norquist's group; Dole, meanwhile, has volunteered to answer questions from Thompson's committee this week...
Although a liberal Democrat, Milwaukee's Norquist has also taken a tough line with city workers. He was faced a few years ago with a standoff between his public-works and fire departments over the painting of firehouses. The fire department wanted the buildings painted in the summer, when its trucks could easily be kept outside, but public works said too many of its people would be on vacation. Norquist allowed the fire department to engage a private contractor to get the project done in the summer. "The good news for the public-works department is they learned from this...