Word: wynn
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...however, may be saved by North Carolina's other senator, Democrat John Edwards. Edwards opposes Boyle, but he's holding off blocking the nomination if he can get the White House to nominate another North Carolinian to the 4th Circuit. Edwards' favorite is state Appeals Court Judge James A. Wynn, an African-American whom Helms has blocked in the past...
...Carolinas. North Carolina's other Senator, Democrat JOHN EDWARDS, opposes Boyle, but Edwards is holding off blocking the nomination to see if he can strike a deal with the White House. Edwards wants Bush to appoint another North Carolinian to the Fourth Circuit, state appeals court Judge JAMES A. WYNN, an African American whom Helms has blocked in the past. If they agree to a trade, Bush and Edwards will have to overcome one other hurdle: Helms. He's told North Carolina reporters that he isn't interested in a deal. Sounds like the same old Washington...
...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...
...Richard Gephardt, the Democratic Congressman from Missouri and House minority leader, and his colleague Charles Rangel, New York Democrat, flew to Las Vegas to pick up a check from Wynn in the amount of $250,000. The money went to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. And this week Gephardt and Rangel plan to return for yet another fund raiser, where they hope to raise...
...sampling of contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission. In 1996, Sheldon Adelson, whose Las Vegas Sands Inc. owns the new Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, contributed $100,000 to the Republican National State Election Committee and $105,000 to the Democratic National Committee. Steve Wynn's Mirage Resorts donated $226,500 to the Republican National Committee that same year. Wynn, who came late to bipartisan giving, would discover the Democrats a little later...