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Good ol’ Grover Norquist, chair of the Reagan Legacy Project, says Reagan is underrepresented in the legacy contest with just 60 streets named after him. He compares that to 600 for John F. Kennedy ’40, a former Crimson executive, and to 800 for Martin Luther King. “Our goal is to do at least that well,” Norquist says—forgetting of course that Kennedy and King were both assassinated in their prime and thus fittingly memorialized more vigorously...
Like Grover Norquist who declared
...reason may be that some of the GOP?s savviest inside players angled hard to stave off the suspension. Conservatives like Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, sent out news releases stating that his group ?Condemns the Attacks on MCI.? Norquist, the leader of a group of rightward thinking activists who meet regularly (sometimes with White House staffers), wrote to at least one senator who was bearing down on MCI and contacted the General Services Administration, the agency that administers federal phone contracts, to plug for the company. Norquist, who blames labor unions and other telecom industry competitors...
...Norquist had also been in touch with top GOP lobbyist Don Fierce about the issue. Fierce, who has long represented MCI and is an ally of White House political guru Karl Rove, spoke personally to the GSA about MCI?s status as a contractor, lobbied House members to head off a provision that would have short-circuited MCI's future contracts and talked about the matter to the White House-which also tried to influence lawmakers. In addition, an associate of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani-who stands to make a reported $150 million if MCI's bankruptcy reorganization...
...fury of many Democrats at what they perceive to be a radical Republican Administration. Several weeks ago, at a Dean speech in San Francisco, a woman approached me and said, "I've been a moderate, Clinton-Gore Democrat, but no more." I asked her why. She said, "Grover Norquist," referring to the Republican taxophobe lobbyist who helped forge the President's tax cuts. "He said, 'Bipartisanship is date rape.' Well, I don't like being raped...