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...Republicans have already won. "Usually at the end of these campaigns, the party with the most money wins," conceded President Clinton on the fund-raising trail. That means the GOP ? and though it's traditional for Democrats to be outspent, the margin this year was huge. The RNC plowed millions of dollars in soft (and extremely quiet) money into the big races: governorships in New Jersey and Virginia; a House seat in Staten Island...
WASHINGTON: As beefy as Haley Barbour is, he's a hard man to pin down. In testimony Thursday before the Senate campaign fund-raising inquiry, the former RNC chairman dismissed charges that he used the National Policy Forum to funnel a $1.6 million 'loan repayment' into RNC coffers as "infuriatingly phony" and "outright false." Barbour even tried to turn the tables on Democrat John Glenn by coyly referring to the senator's own experience on the other side of the microphone during the 1989 "Keating Five" investigation. "I understand very well the resentment that boiled up in you during that...
...Becker, lawyer for Hong Kong real estate developer Ambrous Tung Young. Becker readily described how erstwhile GOP think tank The National Policy Forum was used to funnel campaign donations from Hong Kong real estate developer Young and other foreign nationals to state GOP organizations. Becker maintained today that the RNC was well aware at the time that the money originated from a foreign company, making Young's donations illegal under US law. (The money was finally returned by the RNC this May, some five years late.) Former National Policy Forum President Michael Baroody then testified he had warned RNC head...
...Hong Kong real estate and aircraft brokerage. Until Thursday, the party had said there was "nothing in our records" to show that the money came from foreign sources rather than Young Brothers Development-USA, the company's Florida-based subsidiary. In a statement, R.N.C. Chairman Jim Nicholson said RNC lawyers did not verify the source of the money until late Wednesday. "Upon learning those facts, we immediately returned the contributions, before the day's end," he said. Whether that was soon enough politically remains to be seen. "The Republicans have resisted the call for campaign finance reform all along, saying...
This semester's fellows, who will lead study groups, participate in informal discussions with students and attend classes and lectures, include: Mark Merritt, the RNC convention spokesperson; David Wilhelm, the Clinton campaign manager; Tom Gallagher, former Florida treasurer; Dorothy Gilliam, a Washington Post columnist; Eunice S. Groark, former Connecticut Independent lieutenant governor; and Mike Sullivan, former governor of Wyoming...