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...McCain barked that New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, who had prepared a chart outlining the costs of McCain's proposal, was a "chickens___." Other colleagues are the subject of his barracks humor when they are not around. In June 1998 the Arizonan got up at a Washington G.O.P. fund raiser and told a profoundly demeaning joke about Chelsea Clinton. McCain, who has three daughters, later wrote a letter of apology to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: In This Corner... | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

Still, it's not likely to stop them from ponying up next time a McCain fund raiser calls. And their contributions will keep the McCain contradiction afloat, giving him resources to keep rising in the polls by railing against the system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Controversy: The McCain Irony: Reform's Champion Rakes In the Bucks | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...Democratic candidate debate may have been the bland leading the bland, but the GOP's five angry men were somewhat neutered by the absence of the object of their anger. "Perhaps in the future, in a forum like this, if we call it a fund-raiser he may show up," candidate Steve Forbes said cattily of the absence of Governor George W. Bush from Thursday night's Republican candidates' town meeting in New Hampshire. But then, as Senator Orrin Hatch quickly jabbed, Forbes is sufficiently endowed by his family fortune to avoid the trawling for millions among the special interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOP Candidates Beat About the Bush | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...year, hadn't expected to win this round. But the vote set the stage for Senator McCain to make the issue a centerpiece of his Republican presidential primary campaign, and for the Democrats to take it into next year's election. On his way into a fund-raiser for Democratic congressional candidates Tuesday night, President Clinton lashed out at the Senate vote as a "victory for the politics of cynicism." But with contributions to the parties for the 2000 election expected to reach $550 million - double the figure for the last election - the smart money is on soft money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOP and Soft Money Find Breaking Up Is Hard to Do | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

...organizers of the fund-raiser have been busily planning since early spring...

Author: By Kristin L. Rakowski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Champion Skaters Flock to 30th 'Evening' | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

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