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Throughout the primaries, Dukakis talked incessantly of the marathon, a race that goes to the steady, not the swift. He knew that an even gait and a great fund raiser would allow him to outlast the six other dwarfs and survive the Democratic wars of attrition. But the general election was a war of collision, not attrition. Toward the end, a disoriented Dukakis admitted that he failed to realize that the primaries are nothing like the frenzied finale. The vaunted marathoner proved to be a man too late with his sprint...
...pack to 16 cents in the past five years. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco channeled $100,000 to the Republican Party, but that was offset when a Reynolds tobacco heir, Smith Bagley, donated $100,000 to the Democrats. "Many big corporations give both parties $100,000," says a Republican fund raiser...
...contributions to candidates amount to little more than sophisticated vote buying. When tax reform came before the Senate Finance Committee in 1986, its 20 members received $969,000 from insurance PACs and $956,000 from energy PACs, according to a report by Common Cause. Says Nancy Kuhn, a fund raiser for Dukakis in New York: "It's no mystery why the chairman of the finance committee can raise more money than the chairman of the judiciary committee." Even some members of Congress conceded, in a 1987 survey, that campaign contributions have had a negative impact on the legislative process...
...other hand, if you want to see what is really happening, get in touch with Michael Stewartt, the chief pilot, troublemaker, idea man and fund raiser of an extraordinary environmental flying service called Project Lighthawk. Just now a couple of local environmentalists, a journalist and Stewartt are aboard one of Lighthawk's two Cessna 210s. Stewartt, a lean, relaxed fellow of 38, with a bushy light brown mustache and hair to match, radios his plane's identification to the control tower at Seattle's Boeing Field...
...offshoot of the I-30 condo scandal, as it is known locally, resulted in the March indictment of former Democratic Party Fund Raiser Thomas Gaubert, 48, who has been charged with arranging $8 million in questionable loans by an Iowa S and L for property in another Dallas development. As part of the deal, the indictment alleges, Gaubert, a friend of House Speaker Jim Wright, bought land for 50 cents per sq. ft., then sold it the same day for $5.25 per sq. ft., pocketing $5.6 million in profits. Gaubert, who denies any wrongdoing, says the Republican Administration is trying...