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...fund-raising reception for the young Rhode Island legislator took place at his father's posh Virginia home. Speaker after speaker praised the candidate's support of important issues and predicted great success in his quest for higher office. He "will be a major force in progressive national politics for at least the next 20 years," said an emotional supporter. "So will I," boomed the father, to laughter. The candidate: PATRICK KENNEDY. The father: TED KENNEDY...
...gets a posh office, a lavish expense allowance, a devoted staff and unlimited postage? Answer: any former Speaker of the House of Representatives. Congress doled out these open-ended perks to departing Speakers back in the 1970s so that they could conclude their "official business." But somehow not one has ever managed to do so. According to figures disclosed last week by the House clerk, U.S. taxpayers will have to cough up $385,577.52 this year for staff members who will keep JIM WRIGHT and TIP O'NEILL comfortable in their home states. Not to mention CARL ALBERT of Oklahoma...
...have not already reached a choke-off point for high prices, pollution, crime or the fear of those things. The city is growing by fleeing itself -- in developments rising, tier on tier, northward toward the banks of the San Joaquin River. A local columnist calls those living in the posh new homes "branch and chain people": executives for the local branch of whatever banks, credit companies, insurance firms are represented here. Yet even less affluent people are selling medium-size homes on expensive property elsewhere to build bigger places for less money in Fresno. Over and over one hears that...
...American middle classes spent their eight years under Reagan spending, trying to live up to the glitz. Image was everything, and Polo was the rage. The Polo store, with its antiqued mahogany, riding gear and posh addresses crafted an image of a glorious Edwardian gentry past that America never...
Walsh managed to raise approximately $28,000 through donations and some slightly more posh revenue generators, such as a June boat cruise, which cost $3000, and a pre-election gala at the Sheraton Commander on Friday. But in spite of the pomp that surrounds many of the bigger-spending candidates' fundraising events, most candidates and campaign managers, despite their large budgets, still say they belive in a grassroots approach to building financial and political support...