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...WOMAN SHOWS GO, UTAH CONGRESSWOMAN Enid Waldholtz's five-hour press conference last week will be hard to top. She borrowed heavily from past performers--Richard Nixon (my mother was "a saint"), Mayor Marion Barry (the "bitch set me up") and Senator Bob Packwood ("I was a binge drinker")--and fashioned her own revue. Her wealthy father, "the finest man I know," inconveniently remembers the $2 million that went to her 1994 campaign as a loan (there is a $1,000 limit), but that's because his memory is not so good. Anyone would have been fooled by Joe Waldholtz...
...Waldholtz is clearly hoping that Enid as victimizer--she admitted she won with "tainted money," but she "can't give an election back" because it would deprive Utah residents of their voice--was pushed offstage by Enid the victim. (And by the way, she revealed, Joe has made some "questionable life-style choices'' that make him unfit to share custody of their daughter.) Certainly, she's in a fix, having to hire lawyers, perhaps pay more than $1 million in campaign fines, and support herself. She's been behind on the $3,800 monthly rent for her Georgetown home. Although...
Enid Greene Waldholtz wasn't kidding when she began a press conference today with the words: "I'm here today to tell you about the last four years of my life with Joe Waldholtz." For more than four hours (one per married year) an alternately tearful and angry Enid Greene Waldholtz proceeded to tell her story of how she had been taken in by her husband, who is currently under federal investigation in a $1.7 million check-kiting scheme. In her rambling confessional, the Utah congresswoman said she will not resign, and attempted to give reporters a "full accounting...
...PACKWOOD Thanks to Enid Waldholtz, he's no longer the nation's No. 1 political punch line...
...free tickets or free vacations. Seeking to upgrade their greasy public image, House members voted overwhelmingly to impose a nearly complete ban on accepting gifts from lobbyists. (The Senate has already approved a similar but less stringent ban on its members.) Representative Waldholtz, one of the ban's biggest backers, skipped the debate...