Word: pratt
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Nearly three years ago, as Sen. John Ashcroft was considering a run for the presidency, he composed a hand-written thank-you note to a man many politicians would run from. Neatly inscribed on Ashcroft's Senate stationery, the letter went to Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, a firearms lobbying group considered extremist even by many conservatives...
There is no evidence of further contact between Ashcroft, George W. Bush's nominee for attorney general, and Pratt, though Ashcroft had put out feelers to GOA activists in New Hampshire while exploring a presidential bid seven months earlier, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Nor is there anything unusual about a senator responding in writing to an interested citizen. But the discovery of the senator's personal note to Pratt is likely to fuel Democratic charges that Ashcroft is insensitive to minorities and civil liberties...
...defense industry, which has given Lieberman $63,000 in campaign cash this year, the Senator has used his seat on the Armed Services Committee to foster production of the Navy Seawolf submarine in Groton and land a $2.15 billion contract for a tactical fighter whose Pratt & Whitney engine is built in Hartford...
ELMER ("GERONIMO") PRATT Black Panther, conviction overturned, gets $4.5 million. Time to go Republican...