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LAST WEDNESDAY WAS A BIG night for House Speaker Newt Gingrich. About 75 supporters were gathered at the Washington mansion of auto dealer Mandell Ourisman and his wife Mary, a former official of GOPAC, the political-action committee Gingrich headed until last May. The occasion was a fund raiser for his newest PAC, called Monday Morning. For a couple of pleasant hours the guests picked at their beef tenderloin, admired the Ourismans' baby grand piano and chatted up the most powerful man in Congress. At $1,000 a couple, the posh event yielded more than $30,000 in campaign money...
Democrats prefer to remember the 1988 investigation of House Speaker Jim Wright, whose chief accuser was Gingrich. Then too the ethics committee dismissed nearly all complaints against Wright but asked for a special counsel to investigate the remaining one. Eventually the counsel requested and was granted the authority to look wherever he felt he needed to. More harmful disclosures ensued. Wright resigned. Calculating the prospects for Gingrich, House minority whip David Bonior of Michigan assumed his most sepulchral tones: "As time passes, the gravity of the situation will...
...Republicans are offering an array of enticements, according to the letter obtained by TIME. A person who gives $250,000 or solicits others to give that much is designated a gala co-chairman, gets lunch with Senate majority leader Bob Dole as well as Speaker Gingrich, priority seating at the gala, and four priority tickets to the convention. For $150,000, a donor becomes a vice chairman but gets only two convention tickets. The $45,000 donor is a deputy chairman, eats breakfast with Gingrich, but gets no tickets and no lunch. A $15,000 dinner-committee member...
Will that rationale resonate in the House? Early indications are that Speaker Newt Gingrich will declare a "conscience vote," which means members can do as they please without regard to party loyalty. "The problem with that," says Holbrooke, "is that many Representatives are so new that they've never had to cast a pure national security vote." Indeed, 210 of the House's 435 members (including 134 Republicans) weren't in Congress in 1991, when it narrowly voted to support George Bush's war against Iraq. "Most of them," says Holbrooke, "don't like spending money on anything, view...
Despite their past affection for Mayor Frank Jordan, San Francisco voters seem poised to turn him out of office. Polls show Willie Brown, the flamboyant former speaker of the California Assembly, leading by twenty points heading into Tuesday's runoff mayoral election. San Francisco bureau chief David Jackson notes that while Jordan managed during his first four years to balance the budget and clean up the streets as promised, Brown has captured the political soul of the city. "Willie Brown appeals to the very liberal element that dominates San Francisco politics," Jackson says. "He's using the same skills...