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...post-election breakfast, Ed Rollins, campaign manager for Gov.-elect Christine Todd Whitman, declared quite openly that he had used $500,000 to pay off Black ministers in New Jersey so they wouldn't press their congregations to the polls. If Rollins had been enjoying bacon and eggs at home and talking privately to his wife about his shenanigans, some shrewd investigative reporting might have unearthed the story. But Rollins was in Washington D.C., and he was eating with a gaggle of journalists at a public occasion when he casually revealed his plot...
...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...
Flush from victory, veteran Republican campaign consultant Ed Rollins inadvertently caused a scandal for newly elected New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. Rollins boasted to reporters that the campaign had distributed some $500,000 to Democratic workers in black neighborhoods and to black ministers in an effort to hold down the black vote in the election. Whitman insisted the payments "never happened," and Rollins retracted his statements. At week's end federal and state prosecutors had launched criminal investigations, and the Democratic Party was suing to invalidate Whitman's victory...