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Already the pressure was building. By the time the recount was over, Bush's original margin had sagged to a mere 327 votes, but he remained ahead. Prominent Democrats like New Jersey Senator Bob Torricelli and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich called on the Gore campaign not to lawyer the race to death. Editorial pages looked for the Maginot Line...
...Already the pressure was building. By the time the recount was over, Bush's original margin had sagged to a mere 327 votes, but he remained ahead. Prominent Democrats like New Jersey Senator Bob Torricelli and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich called on the Gore campaign not to lawyer the race to death. Editorial pages looked for the Maginot Line...
...with better explanatory sound bites than "not abandoning the battlefield," and "everybody does it." He might want to start convincing us that if elected and placed in the fund-raising catbird seat, he'll actually use his power to reduce his reelection chances. That he won't pull a Torricelli on us, and back McCain-Feingold right up until it actually has a chance to pass...
...Senator" Bob Torricelli is really a day trader. In one frenzied period last summer, the New Jersey Democrat bought $1,001 to $15,000 (the forms congressmen fill out don't require exact numbers) worth of DrKoop.com on Aug. 5 and sold it the same day. He then bought an equal amount of Novell on Aug. 10, also selling it the same day. And on Aug. 11, Mr. Torricelli bought $15,001 to $50,000 worth of AmeriTrade stock and sold it on Aug. 13. Overall, Torricelli's stock holdings - after making hundreds of trades in 1999 - were valued from...
Senator Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, a strong advocate of the Senate bill and head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, last year pocketed a $150,000 contribution from MBNA. "What every American needs to understand is that somebody is paying the price," says Torricelli. "I believe this is the equivalent of an invisible tax on the American family, estimated to cost each and every American family $400 a year...