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At a post-election breakfast, Ed Rollins, campaign manager for Gov.-elect Christine Todd Whitman, declared quite openly that he had used $500,000 to pay off Black ministers in New Jersey so they wouldn't press their congregations to the polls. If Rollins had been enjoying bacon and eggs...
William Safire, one such gadfly, all but condoned Rollins' actions in a column that ran in The New York Times a few days after the initial rumblings. He harkened back to his days in the Nixon campaign, fighting against the infectious popularity of John F. Kennedy '40. His job was...
To Safire, it was noble enough. Furthermore, he believes that the system he perpetuated has continued until the present, where Rollins' "curiously reformist" remarks are just a public statement of privately acknowledged fact. Instead of investigating, prosecuting and "re-run"-ing affairs in New Jersey, Safire endorses "a few good...
In spite of Safire's recommendations, the government is ready to investigate, to prosecute and perhaps to re-run. The suit filed against Rollins, the New Jersey Republican State Committee and the Whitman Campaign alleges that Rollins and his staff acted in defiance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965...
Rollins and his staff have been studiously denying all of his initial comments. Denial presents a daunting task, when three top campaign people make the same "mistake." Rollins has explained his comments as lies intended to rile James Carville, the campaign manager of former governor and Whitman opponent Jim Florio...