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...Tony Hall has been in Congress (19 years). He made a passable run for the seat in 1994 (taking 41% of the votes), and if he is able to convince voters that the Republican revolution is still alive, he may still be able to hurt Hall with the "big spender" label...
...spent money. No question about that...She is a world-class spender. She is a world-class shopper." --Gerry Spence, successfully defending his client Imelda Marcos in her 1990 trial on racketeering and fraud charges...
...WASHINGTON OUT TO CUT federal spending, 12-term Congressman Bud Shuster is an unrepentant pork-barrel spender. Now it appears the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has converts. More than half his House colleagues--including a hefty majority of those reform-minded G.O.P. freshmen--are backing a bill that would lift constraints on highway and airport projects. If the Truth in Budgeting Act is passed by the House next week, it would give Shuster's committee great latitude to tap some $33 billion in transportation trust funds...
EVEN BY HOLLYWOOD'S STANDARDS, Michael Schulhof was a notoriously big spender. As the chairman of the U.S. operations of Sony Corp. and protege of company founder Akio Morita, Schulhof set out to build an entertainment empire that would create movies, records and other "software" for Sony's hardware: TV sets, vcrs and gadgets of the future. He started slowly at first by acquiring CBS Records for $2 billion in 1987. The real spree began in 1989 when Schulhof paid $3.4 billion for perennial also-ran Columbia and its sister TriStar studios. He immediately spent some $800 million more...
...decried the petty politicking and corruption. He was clearly fed up with the existing Soviet system, and he was repelled by the idea of bombing Americans. He was not primarily motivated by ideology, however; he simply saw no way out of his financial problems. He was not a big spender, had no alcohol problems and was happily married. But the kgb paid miserly salaries, and Varenik didn't fabricate expenses like his colleagues...