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...Dole promises to eliminate "corporate welfare," but like many of his former Senate colleagues, he often advanced the causes of private interests. These patrons have contributed to what might be called Dole Inc.: his network of campaigns, foundations and a pac. In return he has rewarded donors with favors. Among the best-known recipients: Dwayne Andreas of Archer Daniels Midland; and Koch Industries, a Kansas-based oil-and-gas firm. A look at some of these interests that have benefited from his attention...
...TURNER Democrat--Texas 2nd This independent Democrat received almost a third of his pac money from labor unions and used it to beat out a dentist, Brian Babin, by 6% to keep retiring Representative Charles Wilson's seat in the party...
...N.E.A. has also started to play up its bipartisan nature, noting, for instance, that 30% of its membership is Republican. Yet this year, of the 255 congressional candidates being supported by the group, only one Republican is receiving any part of the N.E.A.'s $5.5 million in PAC money--not to mention the $20.7 million it will spend on such indirect political activities as lobbying and training members for campaign work. "If they're saying they're bipartisan, but their dollars are saying something else, I'd listen to their dollars," says John Berthoud, an analyst with the Alexis...
...wild man, yelling and screaming, all over your back. I said, 'Give that man a machete! I want him on my side.'" But sometimes candidates wonder whose interests come first with Morris. Roemer's campaign against the scandal-plagued Edwards was based on Roemer's pledge to reject all PAC money and large contributions. Morris was a big booster of the plan--until he wanted to put TV spots on the air and Roemer lacked the money to pay for them. "Dick wanted me to break my word," says Roemer. "I wouldn...
...father, who also held a top union job, to organized crime. Moreover, a number of events cast doubt on the integrity of the cleanup effort: in New York, Salvatore Lanza, identified with Cosa Nostra in the original complaint, was promoted to treasurer of the union's New York regional PAC. In California rank-and-filers who gave information to the Laborers' investigators were subsequently threatened by local union officials...