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...firms to join the team, assessed each firm a share of the expenses, doled out work assignments and figured out in advance how any fees would be distributed. Scruggs functioned "like a CEO," says Paul Minor, a trial lawyer in Biloxi, Miss. "He's our general and chief strategist, the leader and manager of all these law firms and big egos...
...Draper, a prominent Bush fund raiser, will launch the campaign for the proposition with a $4,000-a-head cocktail party at his home in a wealthy community outside San Francisco, along with rallies in San Diego, Los Angeles, Fresno and Sacramento. Overseeing the effort are Joe Gaylord, longtime strategist for Newt Gingrich, and Pat Rosenstiel, a former Midwest political director for Steve Forbes. But few if any big names are expected to high-five with Draper at his campaign podiums. So far, such school-choice advocates as financier Ted Forstmann and Wal-Mart heir John Walton, who have raised...
That turned out to be Soulforce. For six years, White steeped himself in the confrontational nonviolence taught by Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. He courted the heirs and icons of his newfound field--Gandhi's grandson Arun, King's daughter Yolanda and his strategist James Lawson--and they joined him in Cleveland, along with several hundred multidenominational gays, lesbians and transgendered persons wearing T shirts emblazoned with THIS DEBATE MUST END--WE ARE GOD'S CHILDREN TOO. Of these, 191 helped White block a Convention Center exit and went to jail, an act of "redemptive suffering" intended...
Gore hopes the themes of prosperity and progress will be enough to keep him within striking distance of Bush, at least through the summer. In the fall the strategy will shift to hand-to-hand combat in half a dozen or so key states, Gore strategists say, and that is where they think their candidate will have the advantage. The terrain of issues varies--guns in New Jersey, the economy in Michigan, the environment in California--and the plan is to hammer each one hard enough to put Gore over the top. "It's not the wave but the strange...
...Democrats think there is evidence the group was illegally enmeshed with George W. Bush's campaign. They note that G.O.P. media consultant Don Sipple made the Packwood ad. Sipple has worked for Wilson and Bush and, frequently, with top Bush strategist Karl Rove. Senator John McCain had a similar experience with a different group just before Super Tuesday last March. He says he's "positive" the Bush camp was in league with the group that attacked...