Word: soft
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...Senate, Wendell Ford of Kentucky, has reaped $76,057 since 1986, while House minority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri has received $67,258. The industry's contributions to both parties was fairly even until 1992 when, the Center for Responsive Politics reports, Republicans got twice as much soft money from tobacco interests as Democrats: $1.9 million to $900,000. That gap widened in 1994, when Republicans raked in five times as much as Democrats. In the current campaign cycle, the Republicans have taken in seven times as much-- $3.4 million, vs. $500,000 for the Democrats. But last week...
...title of your article "The Bucks Start Here" should have been "Bribery Starts Here." While it is illegal in the U.S. to bribe a police officer, influencing a politician by using so-called soft money seems to be perfectly O.K. Why should I bother to vote, knowing that elected officials are like tools bought by giant corporations to manipulate the underclass? On Election Day, I'm going to stay in my small shop, where I make barely enough money to survive. Maybe by working those hours instead of wasting them going to the polls, I will be able...
...career appears to be a seamless succession of secular triumphs, from being student-body president of her college to being the first woman ever to speak at Washington's Gridiron Banquet. But polished as she is at giving speeches, at charming strangers with her broad smile and soft manners, Dole's public pursuits are a daily burden. She has confided to an aide that she can imagine herself one day entering a cloistered religious order. She has admitted that her happiest moment on the campaign trail is when she shuts her hotel door at night. "Her sacrifice," says a former...
...neediest woman I've ever been with but needy enough," got high and lost his dog, Goose. Lamme is suing for libel and invasion of privacy. Not one to dwell on past errors, Grammer spent much of last week with CAMILLE DONATACCI, a Club MTV dancer and former soft-core porn actress, who describes herself as "a free-lance associate director for the BBC" and who thinks he's wonderful. Says she: "I hope we develop into something more...
There is evidence--disputed by the principals--that the money does produce big and nicely targeted concessions from the parties who take it in. According to Common Cause, regional and long-distance telephone companies won concessions in the telecommunications bill last year in tandem with their record soft-money giving. NYNEX, a huge regional Baby Bell, contributed $100,000 to The Republican Congressional Campaign Committee the same month House G.O.P. leaders relaxed a requirement in the bill that Baby Bells must have competition for local telephone business before being able to sell long-distance service. Later long-distance companies gave...