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...Bill Clinton The President went over the top Down Under. At a press conference in Canberra, Australia, last month, Clinton was asked about the allegations of illegal campaign contributions solicited by former Democratic party fund raiser John Huang. The Chief Executive responded, "One of the things I would urge you to do--remembering Mr. Richard Jewell in Atlanta... we ought to just get the facts out, and they should be reported." Perhaps the President and Jewell, whose life was ruined through no fault of his own, can get together in Atlanta and empathize over slaw dogs at the Varsity...
...Student groups amount to powerful Lobbying groups. I see a lot of candidates selling themselves to these student groups. I'm not going to be their fun raiser," Cleeman says...
Even before he came to the Senate, Thompson had little patience for chasing the money it takes to get elected. Bouncing along dark Tennessee roads from one fund raiser to the next, he would give his campaign manager, Bill Lacy, long disquisitions on the flaws of the current system. An underdog against a better-financed Democrat, Thompson was finally exasperated enough by conventional campaigning to don battered boots and lease a red pickup to travel the state talking about how "Ol' Fred" would bring common sense to Washington. Voters loved the whole bit, even when it came from a rich...
...moderate from Pennsylvania who in the past two years has presided over hearings into Travelgate and Filegate. Burton passed an important test last week. When word got out that his new chief investigator, David Bossie, had procured the Commerce Department phone logs of John Huang, the former Democratic fund raiser accused of impropriety, and then leaked them to the press, Burton publicly rebuked the aide and issued a warning to his staff that anyone releasing information without his permission would be summarily fired...
...nature of Huang's job at the Commerce Department, where he was employed before becoming a Democratic fund raiser, became a little clearer as well. Huang had maintained that he scrupulously avoided doing any work on matters that involved his former employer, Riady's Lippo Group, while at the department. Last week logs showed that Huang telephoned the office of a Riady subsidiary, the Lippo Bank in Los Angeles, 70 times during his 18-month tenure at Commerce. The Los Angeles Times has reported that a number of contributors gave donations to the Democratic Party sometimes within days of talking...