Word: shillings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editorial the Detroit News argued that Michigan needed higher oil prices "like a hole in the head," and charged that Bush had emerged as a "traditional Republican Daddy Oilbucks." The flap made Bush look almost like a shill for oil producers (he is a former Texas oilman). Said David Keene, who helped run Bush's 1980 campaign and is now a consultant to Dole's political-action committee: "This is the most serious error he's made since becoming Vice President." At his press conference President Reagan tried to aid his Veep, insisting, "We're saying the same thing." Perhaps...
...embarrass the Governor. Gardner, heir to a Weyerhaeuser lumber fortune, styles himself a "citizen politician." He traveled through the state like a breath of fresh Cascades air, accusing Spellman of creating buck-passing commissions to deal with fiscal problems. Spellman fought back by claiming that Gardner was a "shill of labor." The charge backfired when the Teamsters withdrew their endorsement of the Governor...
...Pierce County, that the bland, cautious Spellman wound up with a mere 27% of the total vote. The latest polls show Gardner, a crisp administrator with a Harvard M.B.A., running 17% ahead of Spellman. The Governor has taken to shrill attacks on his opponent, charging Gardner with being a "shill of labor" who left his county "a shambles...
...Contradora group largely plays the role of combining a convenient mechanism for the Reagan Administration not to negotiate directly with Nicaragua, or directly with Salvadoran revolutionaries. At the same time, we refuse to back the Contradoras in any way and therefore we are using the Contradoras as a shill to keep the appearance of negotiation going while at the same time, we drive a militaristic policy forward, and that. I told you, is going to build up deep resentments among the presidents and the foreign ministers and others who made it their commitment to Salvador...
...however, until a Washington, B.C., TV station, which had picked up the program, began using the President's words for 30-second promo spots. The program went on as scheduled, but before it did, the station pulled the plugs, effectively canceling double R I's license to shill...