On The Prowl
Politics From the Inside Dole Drums phil Gramm's presidential candidacy is flagging so badly that Charlie Black, the campaign's senior political adviser and veteran GOP operative, is said to be...
...For the past several months, Domenici staffers had been pushing hard for negotiations in order to bolster their boss's chances of winning what is shaping up to be a tough re-election campaign in New Mexico...
...0 Lott's Lot A nybody betting that current Senate Majority Whip Trent Lott will be handed the Majority Leader's job by his colleagues if Dole steps down, should pull his money off the table...
...Privately Republicans are encouraging Don Nickles, the low-key but ambitious conservative from Oklahoma, to mount a challenge to Lott...
...There is talk that Johnston may also be given the chief-of-staff post as the '96 campaign draws near, but Dole does not 14 The American Spectator August 1995 appear ready to politically behead his most trusted staffer...
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...The board is comprised of three Democrats and two Republicans...
...Dole, who has a history of relying on strong women in his political organization, has long been taken with the idea of running with a woman: in 1988, he had his eye on then-Rep...
...She was replaced by Kelly Johnston, a respected conservative Senate staffer well-known on Capitol Hill...
...Gingrich's plans notwithstanding, one late entrant seems poised to make the race: Malcolm Forbes, Jr...
...The Baltimore Sun, the state's dominant newspaper, has toed the Glendening line, too...
...Barbara Mikulski...
...the motion would likely have passed, however, because one Democrat, Margarette Crowder, was ready to break ranks...
...Sam McAfee, warehouseman for the Baltimore City machines, has admitted that the local election boards in Baltimore and Prince George's—two of only three of the state's twenty-four jurisdictions that Glendeningcarried—ordered the unprecedented changes...
...Treasury continues to use the FEI model, even though Congress—at the request of former Ways and Means boss Dan Rostenkowski—dumped the use of the model for budget and tax purposes two years ago, because it was outdated and created wildly inaccurate numbers...
...Frasure reportedly has laughed so hard that he once fell out of his chair...
...CI Ring Any Bells...
...Forbes's move means that Empower America co-chairmen William Bennett (who has been heavily courted by Lamar Alexander) and Jack Kemp likely won't endorse any of the first tier GOP candidates out of deference to Forbes...
...0 Budget Summit Climb president Clinton's last-minute June budget gambit wouldn't have been possible had it not been for some backdoor advice and data provided by Republican staffers from the Finance and Budget Committees...
...The final option now, according to lawyers who are studying the matter, is for Sauerbrey—or any Maryland voter—to go to federal court on a claim that fraud diluted their vote, thus resulting in unequal treatment...
...Lott's support is soft, and the' Senate's failure to move legislation at a pace approaching the House is being partially blamed on the man from Mississippi...
...Ostensibly installed to make the machines easier to access in event of a malfunction, the keys allowed poll workers potentially to compromise the balloting...
...California's Pete Wilson, Ohio's George Voinovich, and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell are also mentioned, but the early betting is on Whitman...
...Jennifer Dunn planning a strong challenge...
...Politics From the Inside Dole Drums phil Gramm's presidential candidacy is flagging so badly that Charlie Black, the campaign's senior political adviser and veteran GOP operative, is said to be ready to jump ship if the organization doesn't shape up soon...
...Also in late May, Channel 2 News reported that voting machines in Baltimore city and Prince George's County were affixed with black key boxes in violation of state election laws...
...In the election night tally, Sauerbrey led for much of the evening until a still-unexplained halt in the count...
...The attorney general ran on Glendening's ticket, and the U.S...
...Traditionally only the precinct police hold such keys...
...According to a comparison of Baltimore's official records by the pro-Sauerbrey group VOTER (Voters Organized Toward Election Reform), 5,832 more votes were tallied from voting machines on election night than there were voters who either checked in at city precincts that day or voted absentee...
...With Kerrey's seat in play, Democratic hopes of regaining control of the Senate would be all but extinguished...
...0 Going for Burke Sheila Burke, Bob Dole's long-time chief of staff, and quite possibly the most powerful woman in Washington, was quietly removed from the prestigious job of Secretary of the Senate in late May...
...Republican Ellen Sauerbrey lost the race by an official count of 5,993 votes out of 1.4 million cast...
...But Republicans are catching on...
...But then telling the committee that Treasury used the model at the insistence of the White House wouldn't have gone over well anyway...
...William Weld has decided to take on incumbent Democratic Senator John Kerry in what will be one of next year's most-watched Senate slugfests...
...Burke's removal was a bone to conservatives who revile Burke for her years of working to undercut conservative legislative initiatives and her willingness to work with the Clinton White House on its legislative initiatives...
...Packwood told staffers he would like a summit so that, if he decides to step down, he can go out in a blaze of glory—setting the federal budget toward fiscal responsibility...
...C1 Slobodan's Show Now we know why the Clinton administration hasn't been able to get anything done with Bosnia...
...when the count resumed, Democrat Parris Glendening was just narrowly ahead...
...Two top staffers at Empower America are leaving that organization—which Forbes has heavily bankrolled—to start a presidential exploratory committee for the publishing executive...
...Moderate Dole staffers were involved—despite Dole's insistence that they play nice with his new conservative friends—in part to spite conservative newcomers to his Senate and campaign staff...
...Nickles has told staff that he intends to do just that...
...When pressed by Ways and Means Chairman Bill Archer for a reason whythe Clinton Treasury Department insisted on using a scoring system no longer accepted as reliable even by Democrats, Samuels had no answer...
...Bob Dole, meanwhile, believes that the nomination is his—absent a late entrance by Newt Gingrich—and is already casting about for a running mate to enhance his planned "run to the center" strategy for the fall campaign...
...Which senior White House aide has taken to wearing makeup on his ear to conceal from the media that he wears an earring when off duty...
...0 Treasury's Aging Models he Treasury Department continues 1 to cook the budget and tax books, and shill for House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt before the Joint Committee on Taxation...
...Christie Todd Whitman, a pro-choicer and Christian Coalition critic...
...In June, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Leslie Samuels went to Capitol Hill, touting tax-revenue numbers generated using the Family Economic Income computer model—a static model created for the Ford administration to score tax legislation...
...The five-member Maryland election board, appointed by the former Democratic governor, has been stymied as well...
...A subsequent report by the crusading Baltimore television news program at Channel 2 found there were 6,000 more votes cast than voters...
...The terms of the five members expired June 30...
...Looking ahead to '98, Republicans are salivating about taking out all three senators—California's Barbara Boxer, Illinois's Carol Moseley-Braun, and Washington's Patty Murray—who were elected in the much-vaunted "Year of the Woman" and have proved lackluster in office...
...The results, played up in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, were that the proposed Republican tax cuts would create record-setting deficits...
...Worse still, Ralph Reed is saying privately that the Gramm candidacy is dead as far as the Christian Coalition is concerned...
...A county circuit court judge threw out Sauerbrey's challenge last January, ruling that the evidence of fraud presented would not have been enough to influence the outcome of the election...
...While conservatives may be crowing, Burke remains a political and policy wild card who holds a grudge about as long as her boss does, and she privately remains Dole's main resource for advice on legislative issues...
...Topping the list: New Jersey Gov...
...Milosevic ignores the offer, but so that Frasure doesn't leave too disappointed, the Serbian president does a drop-dead imitation of Croatian counterpart Franjo Tudjman awarding himself medals of freedom...
...Watch for her to try to continue to muck up Republican welfare reform proposals and to push for a bipartisan budget agreement weighed heavily toward the Clinton ten-year budget plan...
...the chairman of the board, Glendening supporter James Johnson, managed to cancel the last meeting, scheduled for June 13, at which the board would have considered a motion to declare the November election invalid...
...Pressing the case has proved all but impossible in one-party Maryland...
...attorney in Baltimore is a former top aide to Democratic Sen...
...Frasure regularly meets Milosevic with the same offer: recognize Bosnia and Croatia, and the U.S...
...This after the same staffers associated with Senators Dole, Packwood, and Domenici began holding meetings to lay the groundwork for a budget summit with the White House that was to occur in late August—despite public denials from House and Senate leadership, and even the White House, that such a meeting would ever occur...
...171 Going for Broke B ay State sources say popular Republican Gov...
...The Secretary post—the highest confirmable position in the Senate—oversees all administrative functions of the chamber...
...CI Maryland Vote Fraud Revisited ?The results of last November's The elections in Maryland may be challenged in federal court...
...will lift sanctions against Serbia...
...She was able to show that 1,816 ineligible voters cast ballots in Baltimore November 8. But Sauerbrey's supporters have continued to turn up fresh evidence to bolster their case...
...Washington's race will likely be an all-female affair, with GOP Rep...
...Turns out its special envoy to the troubled territory, Robert Frasure, is having too good a time with Belgrade buddy Slobodan Milosevic...
...The congressional budget intelligence, which included several rough-draft Republican alternatives to the current House and Senate GOP budget proposals, was passed along via intermediaries—former Democraticstaffers now working on Wall Street with ties to White House chief of staff Leon Panetta and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin...
...Lynn Martin of Illinois...
Vol. 28 • August 1995 • No. 8
