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...having to hire lawyers, perhaps pay more than $1 million in campaign fines, and support herself. She's been behind on the $3,800 monthly rent for her Georgetown home. Although she showed moxie by turning her baby shower into a $500-a-head fund raiser, it won't be easy raising her child as a single mother and possibly former Congresswoman. Once you've told the world that you're "as stupid, as blind, as gullible, as naive" as a human being could be--and confessed that you can't even run the answering machine in your own house...
LAST WEDNESDAY WAS A BIG night for House Speaker Newt Gingrich. About 75 supporters were gathered at the Washington mansion of auto dealer Mandell Ourisman and his wife Mary, a former official of GOPAC, the political-action committee Gingrich headed until last May. The occasion was a fund raiser for his newest PAC, called Monday Morning. For a couple of pleasant hours the guests picked at their beef tenderloin, admired the Ourismans' baby grand piano and chatted up the most powerful man in Congress. At $1,000 a couple, the posh event yielded more than $30,000 in campaign money...
What mattered, however, was the committee's decision to appoint an outside counsel to investigate whether Gingrich improperly used tax-deductible donations to fund the videotaped college course Renewing American Civilization, that he taught until earlier this year. The crowd at the Wednesday fund raiser applauded loudly when Gingrich told them the six charges had finally been resolved. As for the seventh, he said, it was a "technical'' matter. That line was echoed the next day by other members of the G.O.P. leadership. House Republican Conference chairman John Boehner of Ohio faxed around a 1994 letter by a former...
...case in point: on the same day recently that a House committee removed provisions from a bill that would cut dairy subsidies, the head of the National Milk Producers Federation scheduled a $1,000-a-head fund raiser for Representative Gerald Solomon, the New York Republican largely responsible for the revisions they had been seeking. All sides say they did nothing wrong. Democrats say it still amounts to business as usual. "Newt Gingrich has done a booming business in special-interest quid pro quos," says Don Fowler, co-chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
...accept its money. Despite singling out Time Warner in his much publicized attack on rap music last May, Dole did not return a $15,000 PAC contribution from the company. He also invited Time Warner chairman and CEO Gerald Levin to a recent $1,000-a-plate fund raiser at the Beverly Hills Hotel. (Levin did not attend.) And after grabbing headlines for condemning Disney's Miramax Films for the movie Priest and making a huge to-do over selling $15,000 worth of his wife's Disney stock in protest, Dole took a $4,000 contribution from the company...