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...Marc Racicot raised some eyebrows in Washington when he announced he would be keeping his day job after taking over as G.O.P. national committee chairman in January. The former Montana Governor lobbies for interests critically affected by government policy, among them electric utilities, railroads and, until recently, Enron, the bankrupt energy concern. Racicot's decision could pose an ethical challenge for the Bush team: can Administration officials say no to a man who will be piling up campaign cash for their boss and spinning for the party...
...Racicot has wielded clout as a lobbyist since leaving the governorship a year ago. Representing a coalition of power companies, Racicot met with vice-presidential aides on Dec. 3, sources tell TIME, and argued to relax a clean-air law requiring utilities to install new pollution controls when they upgrade plants. In November he sent promotional material for Siebel Systems software to Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, according to Siebel executive Frank Bishop. Racicot, a Siebel director, followed up with a phone call to Ridge. Racicot says it is "insulting" to suggest his political role might help his lobbying...
...Marc Racicot: The former Montana governor is definitely a long shot. Folks over at Justice are taking Racicot at his word when he says he needs to spend some time in the private sector...
...interview with TIME last week, Bush singled out one Governor in particular for praise: Racicot, of Montana, who emerged during the Florida fiasco as a take-no-prisoners surrogate for the Governor. Racicot's accusation that Gore had declared war on U.S. troops by trying to toss out their absentee ballots has already made him a target among some Democrats on Capitol Hill. But Bush is unbowed and is considering the former state attorney general for Justice or Interior. "He's a genuinely good person," said Bush, "a genuine guy. I promise you that whatever position...
...announced in the morning that John Ashcroft, the Missouri senator who lost in November at the hands of Mel Carnahan's ghost, will be attorney general. Ashcroft is a staunch and pious down-the-line social conservative whom Democrats really seem to despise - he beats out Montana governor Marc Racicot, whom the right didn't like, and Oklahoma governor Frank Keating, a former FBI man whom they loved but is back among the also-rans for some reason...