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...there is scant evidence that he uses them to develop fundamental policy positions. Remember Bob Jones? According to the Bush campaign's focus groups, you don't. In fact, Bush aides gleefully cite research showing you're more likely to think of the famous golf-course designer Robert Trent Jones than you are of the controversial South Carolina university that Bush visited last February. (Bush was criticized for being slow to denounce its hostility to Roman Catholics and its ban on interracial dating...
...lucrative retainer it is. In November 1997, Trent Lott, the Mississippi Republican and Senate majority leader, and Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senator from Kentucky who believes unlimited campaign cash is a free-speech right, flew to Las Vegas aboard the jet of casino impresario Steve Wynn to attend a gaming industry G.O.P. fund raiser. The Republicans left with $100,000--the start of something big. Within a year, additional casino contributions would boost that sum to nearly $1 million...
Sometimes all this money was delivered privately. Sometimes it was delivered at public fund raisers held along the Strip. In that November 1997 fund raiser, gaming executives paid at least $1,000 a person to rub shoulders with Republican leaders Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell, in an event that gaming officials characterized as a "tremendous success." Democrats received similar treatment in July 1999 when House minority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island and Ways and Means ranking member Charles Rangel of New York attended a Las Vegas luncheon...
...featuring tubs of Shiner Bock beer until a congressional aide tossed us out." All of Philadelphia was a party--and it was difficult not to stumble over famous feet. Says Frank: "Richard Roundtree--the original Shaft--sat on the couch watching John McCain at the podium. I spoke to Trent Lott, Jerry Falwell and Bob Livingston within an hour. George Stephanopoulos backed into me and apologized." One of the rare times he'll ever do that...
...keep Americans from clicking past the G.O.P. convention for reruns of Felicity. Complicating matters, the kids want their ceremony in Philadelphia to be "nontraditional." The theme that GEORGE W. BUSH is a New Kind of Republican means nixing time-honored rites. No paeans to Senate majority leader Trent Lott or House Speaker Denny Hastert. They'll get honorary convention titles but not prime-time slots, a fact that insiders say has Lott steamed. "If your name begins with Senator or Congressman, you're not onstage," says a Bush adviser. Exception: JOHN McCAIN, whose Senate status is overshadowed by his celebrity...