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...some of the growing number of people insisting on a special counsel are Democrats. In the Senate those include Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, a sponsor of the dying McCain-Feingold campaign- finance reform bill, as well as Daniel Moynihan of New York and Paul Wellstone of Minnesota. In the House it's California Representative Henry Waxman, lead Democrat in its fund-raising probe. This makes for the kind of situation that requires Washington memoirs of the '90s to have a separate index heading on "Clinton, temper of." Last week he was making late-night phone calls to ask Democrats what...
...need to rewrite them. Until now, the problem with passing anything that would seriously change the way bribes flow through politics is that the politicians who would have to rewrite the laws have the greatest interest in not changing them. Arizona Republican John McCain and Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold have been hollering in the wilderness for two years, trying to persuade their fellow Senators to clean up the system. They would ban the unlimited soft-money contributions that both parties depend on (more than $250 million, a historic record, last year) and reward candidates who abide by voluntary spending limits...
Other people involved with the case agree with that assessment. Even the state's expert witness, psychiatrist Dr. Russ Voltin, who testified that on the basis of inconsistencies in her story he believed Kay was "malingering," has changed his position. He testified at a recent sentencing hearing that after further interviews with Kay he believes she suffers from post-traumatic-stress disorder, resulting from the years of abuse by her deceased husband. "I don't think this woman poses a threat," Dr. Voltin says. "[She] felt backed against the wall." It is too late to sway the court, however...
...police, Barr, McDougall and 200 other inmates were in the prison yard after dinner, when Barr took the steel post used in a game of horseshoes and beat McDougall to death with it. Prison officials say they had put McDougall under protective custody on the night of the Russ & Bo broadcast because inmates who had been listening told them that a caller had offered a $1,000 reward to anyone who killed McDougall. After five days in custody, McDougall insisted on being released. That evening he was murdered...
...Russ and Bo are popular with prisoners around the region, and Barr may even have heard some calls they made to the show, speaking angrily about what should be done to McDougall. "We got calls from inmates that night," Rollins said. "They were describing what happens to child molesters in prison. They talked of a blanket party, where you throw a blanket over him and everybody beats the hell out of him. A certain prisoner said that should happen to [McDougall], and we were like, 'No, no, no. On to the next call...