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...Administration is also agonizing over how to respond to Texas Governor George W. Bush's request to be permitted to privatize the state's welfare system. Some of the most influential players in the White House, including domestic-policy adviser Bruce Reed, are urging Clinton to grant a waiver that could make way for an important new approach to welfare. But Gore could suffer if the move antagonizes the powerful government-workers union...
...never does anything psychologically simple had been scheming about Newt's problems for months. Dole told his old campaign manager Scott Reed in January that Americans would tune out Washington even more completely if both the President and the Speaker were fending off scandal. Newt should pay the fine, said Dole, and get on with it. The two men worked on Gingrich privately for weeks, but the Speaker kept resisting. Marianne Gingrich was even more hostile: she didn't believe her husband had done anything wrong, and she refused to pony up the couple's savings. The Gingriches are worth...
...Dole let things cool down. Then, two weeks ago, he tried again and sweetened the offer, telling Reed that he would lend Gingrich the money himself. Reed ran the idea past Joe Gaylord, Gingrich's top aide, and this time it wasn't instantly rejected. Gingrich had just returned from China and was on a bit of a roll; plus, as a man who gets inspirations the way other men get coffee, he began hearing from an unlikely trio of political muses. The first was Janet Reno, who, by opting not to name an independent counsel in the fund-raising...
...CANDIDATE] CHRISTINE WHITMAN NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR [SIGN OF RUNNING] Her husband is telling everybody she is [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] She'll get the women's vote but not Ralph Reed's [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] Princess Diana [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] Princess Anne...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: After eight years in which he became easily the most powerful man on the Religious Right, Ralph Reed has decided to resign as the executive director of the Christian Coalition to take a more direct hand in politics. Reed said Wednesday he will step down in September to form a political consulting firm called Century Strategies. For the highly ambitious Reed, the move frees him from the limitations imposed by the Coalition's tax-exempt status. As a religious organization, the group is prohibited from directly endorsing candidates, or having official ties to a political party, a line...