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...handle of a toilet plunger in 1997, Giuliani expressed shock at the brutality and called for a task force to review police-community issues. But that was in the midst of his re-election campaign, and since then his reaction to charges of police brutality has grown more strident. The irony is that police killings of civilians are down dramatically from what they were during the administration of his Democratic predecessor, David Dinkins. But Dinkins would go around with a long, sorrowful face that deflected blame, while Giuliani lashes out and invites it. Fred Siegel, a history professor at Cooper...
...settlement comes hard on the heels of the Patrick Dorismond case, in which Giuliani irked even some of his most strident supporters by bad-mouthing an unarmed black man who was shot to death by police in a botched buy-and-bust operation. Observers on both sides of the aisle complained that the mayor's handling of the Dorismond incident showed insensitivity and proved that he's incapable of reaching out to those who aren't his traditional supporters. Following the mayor's salvos against Dorismond, which included releasing the dead man's sealed juvenile criminal record, Clinton took...
...influence on policy will be lost if soft money--a euphemism for unlimited monetary contributions to political parties--is banned. The prospect of true reform is so scary to the establishment that Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) stopped blocking Clinton's judicial nominees just to get a strident anti-reformer appointed to the Federal Election Commission, the body that would enforce any new campaign finance laws...
Among the more strident and persistent correspondents were Bob Dole, who would eventually campaign for the presidency aboard Lindner's corporate jet, and John Glenn, who counted Lindner as a campaign contributor...
...Republican Congressman Jim Bunning of Kentucky, now a Senator. And Charles Stenholm, the Democratic Representative from Texas. And Richard Lugar, the Republican Senator from Indiana. And Mike DeWine, the Republican Senator from Ohio. And, of course, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senator from Kentucky, who is Congress's most strident advocate of unlimited money in elections...