Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, the media went wild, trying to dig up every detail and gain corroborations from Whitman staffers. Witness the remarkable reactions: Whitman's brother, also an aide, said that much of the campaign's work went toward "getting out the vote on one side, and voter sup...and keeping the vote light in other areas." Does Mr. Webster B. Whitman, in this little snippet, shy away from the term, "voter suppression?" Carl Golden, the governor-elect's chief spokesperson, said, "Sometimes voter suppression is as important in this business as vote-getting...
...spite of Safire's recommendations, the government is ready to investigate, to prosecute and perhaps to re-run. The suit filed against Rollins, the New Jersey Republican State Committee and the Whitman Campaign alleges that Rollins and his staff acted in defiance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, federal civil rights statutes, and, on a more interpretational note, the First, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the Constitution. The United States Attorney for New Jersey, Michael Chertoff, has even suggested that criminal charges will be brought. The Federal Bureau of Investigation set up a hotline for informers within...
Rollins and his staff have been studiously denying all of his initial comments. Denial presents a daunting task, when three top campaign people make the same "mistake." Rollins has explained his comments as lies intended to rile James Carville, the campaign manager of former governor and Whitman opponent Jim Florio. (You might recall Carville as the guy who engineered the defeat of Perot and one notable Republican a year ago.) Is Ed Rollins, pundit par excellence, really stupid and immature enough to say things that could get him arrested just to dig at Jim Carville? Luckily, the Democratic State Committee...
...Whitman's largest problem, which she must face without the help of Rollins or most of her campaign staff, is dealing with the scores of Black ministers who were outraged and demeaned by Rollins' statements. Not only did Rollins implicate himself in criminal wrongdoing, but he called a lot of pastors bribe-takers. The Whitman people have pointed to the ministers as evidence that the pay-offs never happened, but they neglect one crucial point of law--it's just as much a crime to offer a bribe if it isn't taken...
...black vote in New Jersey's gubernatorial election had been a political boast, he said last week, concocted as a "head game" with his rival political strategist, James Carville. That was Rollins' explanation last week for earlier remarks that had touched off a furor following Republican Christine Todd Whitman's narrow victory over incumbent Democrat James Florio...