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...gave the Democratic Party in 1996, after allegedly arranging for a Chinese arms dealer to come to a White House fund-raising coffee. The rub for Green is that he told Senate investigators who were trying to determine if he had been illegally reimbursed by fund raiser Charlie Trie that he'd never received funds from Trie, who had introduced Green to the Chinese official...
...proposed initiatives would be impossible to fund. Bush's credibility attacks against Gore, meanwhile, focus on character, suggesting that Gore doesn't have the moral fiber to see his centrist agenda through. Bush likes to focus on the veep's campaign finance record, particularly the Buddhist temple fund-raiser, as a way of putting Gore's overall credibility in doubt. The race seems to have shifted from which candidate we can believe to which one we can doubt the least...
...campaign financing--calling for an end to "soft money" contributions and the creation of a $7.1 billion endowment--he admitted that he is an "imperfect messenger for this cause." In his new modesty offensive, Gore was alluding to such well-known blemishes on his record as the 1996 fund raiser he held at a Buddhist temple. But Gore's imperfections may also extend to the more traditional realm of political patronage, particularly through his influence with a powerful institution back home: the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...turned to Gore to help fill two vacancies on its three-person governing board not long after the Inauguration in 1993. And it was natural that Gore would propose people who were well known to him. Clinton named as director Johnny Hayes, who has worked as a principal fund raiser of every Gore campaign since he entered politics--including the current one. The President named as chairman Craven Crowell, an old pal of Gore's from his newspaper days and a top aide to Gore's ally Jim Sasser, a former Democratic Senator from Tennessee. (The third board member...
...gave the Democratic party in 1996, after allegedly arranging for a Chinese arms dealer to come to a White House fund-raising coffee. The rub for Green is that he told Senate investigators who were trying to determine if he had been illegally reimbursed by fund-raiser Charlie Trie that he'd never received funds from Trie, who had introduced Green to the Chinese official...