Word: solomont
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...defenders say she is a warm, upbeat motivator and an impassioned Democrat. "She works with a sense of urgency, and she links the investment with the goals," says former party chairman Steve Grossman. "It requires an almost crazy level of commitment," says 1997 finance chairman Alan Solomont, "and Beth has that." The stakes for 2000 are high, with a chance to regain control of the House, along with the presidential race. The D.N.C. has spent two years recovering from the 1996 fund-raising scandals; its debt soared to more than $16 million, mostly because of legal fees. (The debt...
...conclusion that the President and the Vice President did nothing wrong when they dialed up donors for cash. This time the lead came not from news reports or Republicans but from Democrats. Just days before, Democratic National Committee lawyers turned over a document prepared for D.N.C. finance chairman Alan Solomont that named 30 fat cats who, in exchange for a telephone call from the White House, might be lured onto the party's finance board. The price of entry: a donation of $100,000 or a promise to raise $250,000. Next to each name was a tiny box indicating...
Reno's team immediately telephoned the donors themselves: Had they heard from Clinton or Gore? Was there a pitch for hard money or soft? The hurried checking continued right until Tuesday morning--just hours before Reno announced her decision. As it turned out, Solomont never sent the document to the White House. But the last-minute scramble over a belatedly discovered document was just another reason Reno's own FBI has clamored openly for an independent counsel to investigate the entire mess...
MICHAEL WEISSKOPF joined our Washington staff as a correspondent only four weeks ago, but he's already reported two exclusive stories for TIME: a profile of chief Democratic fund raiser Alan Solomont; a report on the secret White House database used to track potential donors; and this week's lead story about the growing scandal over foreign donations to the Democratic Party. It's all in a month's work for Weisskopf, who in 19 years at the Washington Post garnered a fistful of journalism honors, including Pulitzer nominations and a George Polk Award. He was well prepared to follow...
Vladeck, while acknowledging that industry lobbying was influential, says he would "comfortably defend each change on its merits." He also notes that the industry did not get all it asked for. Shalala, who was traveling in Europe, could not be reached for comment. Solomont, meanwhile, says that with his new job as finance chairman, the pressure increases "not to create an impression I was using that role in a way that was self-serving" and "not to be seen as representing any particular group." But then he adds, "Having said that, I'm not about to check what I believe...