On the Prowl
"ON THE PROWL" O'Leary's Cow White House chief of staff Leon Panetta could barely contain his glee when Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary was caught by the Wall Street Journal spending $46,500 in...
...The routine —which occurred at least once a month for the first eighteen months of the administration—cost each community as much as $20,000 per trip in unbudgeted police overtime...
...ON THE PROWL O'Leary's Cow White House chief of staff Leon Panetta could barely contain his glee when Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary was caught by the Wall Street Journal spending $46,500 in government funds to hire media consultants to monitor and rate reporters...
...DeParle crowed at one point that he had uncovered the sources of all the mud slung at Burke—Sen...
...They are concerned Feinstein will find it difficult to tap into the traditional Democratic fundraising pool, particularly since the liberal Boxer will be seeking funds at the same time forwhat is expected to be a serious challenge in 1998 from Republican Rep...
...I'm disappointed about this...
...Then rumors began to surface about his declining emotional health...
...Another showed all the Star Wars films...
...Now she is accusing her former public affairs director Michael Gauldin of setting her up...
...Sources at the department report that colleagues spent the week cleaning out the shelves of video-rental stores in Northwest Washington and holding group viewings during working hours...
...Seems they have not spoken publicly or privately to each other since Feinstein gave a warm farewell speech to outgoing Sen...
...Public affairs staffers in Energy had been bragging about it to other cabinet agencies for months...
...Essential Commerce Department of Commerce workers weren't among the federal workers furloughed during November's budget impasse, which was good news for Blockbuster...
...Lawton Chiles was the only sitting Democratic governor reelected in 1994, good government types lauded him for having run an "ethical" campaign...
...This, after Secretary Ron Brown claimed he couldn't attend the economic summit in Japan because saving his department from the budget axe was more important...
...This is no different than the games he has always played," said a former campaign worker who in 1970 worked as a fund-raiser for Chiles...
...Al D'Amato's mini-press briefing afterward...
...According to one Energy official, O'Leary has even taken to referring to the president in very off-color terms...
...Pass the popcorn, Ron...
...What DeParle missed is that both Bossie and Brown are former Dole staffers who worked under Burke...
...A long-time member of the Arkansas crowd, Gauldin worked as press secretary to Gov...
...Other popular films: Dumb and Dumber, While You Were Sleeping, and Batman Forever...
...One office showed the Godfather trilogy...
...After a late-night White House meeting on November 13 between the Republican leadership and Clinton failed to avert a government shutdown, Gingrich is said to have told advisers that he was "shocked" at the negative public reaction to Republican attempts to balance the budget, and that he blamed himself for Republican failures to go on the budget offensive...
...Chiles's campaign approved the scripts and paid a professional phone bank company to target Florida senior citizens...
...Evidently, he was monitoring the hearing for his client, former White House counsel and defiant Whitewater scapegoat Bernard Nussbaum...
...Archer Bows House Ways and Means chairman Bill Archer is still wondering why he was not given a more active role in the budget debate...
...Bill Clinton for the last six years of his governorship...
...Early in his administration, Clinton would travel more than 50 miles west on 1-66 to play at the Robert Trent Jones course in Gainesville, Virginia—by motorcade...
...Lawless Lawton When Florida Gov...
...Lauch Fair-cloth staffer David Bossie and Bossie's former boss, newsletter writer Floyd Brown...
...Bob Packwood on the Senate floor...
...Senate that year, Chiles set a $io limit on individual contributions—and then personally encouraged their bundling...
...Some say Archer needs to be more politically aggressive in the way he uses his Ways and Means bully pulpit, a la Dan Rostenkowski, now awaiting trial in Chicago...
...A law partner of former White House counsel Lloyd Cutler, Sherbourne's main task seems to involve blocking the release of Whitewater and Travel Office documents to congressional committees...
...A week earlier, Fitzpatrick, a partner at Arnold and Porter, also took in the House oversight committee hearing into Travelgate...
...Meanwhile, phones at Commerce went unanswered...
...Saying they represented the (nonexistent) Citizens for Tax Fairness or the (Republican) Florida Association of Senior Citizens, these hired guns would tell retirees that Bush opposed Medicare and Social Security programs run by Washington, not the state...
...His public posturing notwithstanding, it's long been known in Florida Democratic circles that Chiles has never shied away from doing what needs to be done to win an election...
...Vermont's Jim Jeffords and Rhode Island's John Chafee were the easiest marks...
...Boxer's Corner Three days before Congress and Clinton temporarily settled the government furlough, California Sen...
...Sources say the White House asked her colleague Barbara Boxer to lobby the wayward senator, but Boxer refused, citing a rift between the two...
...Bossie's Boss A New York Times Magazine cover story by "reporter" Jason DeParle claimed to reveal the motive behind the mauling of Dole chief of staff Sheila Burke by the "conservative attack machine...
...During a break he had a private audience with White House special counsel Jane Sherbourne— the point man for the Clinton administration's congressional Whitewater control...
...But then he backhandedly defended Burke, telling these senators that the New York Times had caught his chief of staff at a weakened moment during welfare legislation negotiations that saw some conservatives criticize her handling of the bill, and that Burke didn't know that her face, adorned with devil's horns, would appear on the Times magazine cover...
...Don't They Get C-Span...
...After a bitter feud with O'Leary, Gauldin transferred to the Department of Interior, where he now serves as public affairs director for Bruce Babbitt...
...as many a reporter, financial analyst, and lobbyist dependent on Commerce data found out, even the fax-on-demand (accessed by the caller's machine) was disconnected...
...House leaders failed to invite him to several key negotiations with the White House...
...Dianne Feinstein informed the White House that she could not support the White House position in the budget debate, and that she was leaning toward backing the Republican proposal...
...Hatfield and the McCoys The White House targeted five Republican senators during the November budget battle, lobbying them heavily to step across the aisle to preserve the president's budget vetoes...
...Word in southern California is that some of Feinstein's campaign-finance people have been telling moderate donors that their candidate might switch to the Republican Party before her run in z000...
...Behind Panetta's quick demand for a full explanation lay a stormy relationship between O'Leary and the Clinton administration, which had deteriorated to the point that O'Leary would no longer consider using personnel sent over by the White House...
...It's a dumb trick...
...What was high-priced Washington lawyer James F. Fitzpatrick doing sitting in the audience during Senate Whitewater hearings into the phone calls exchanged by Hillary Clinton, Susan Thomases, and Margaret Williams in the hours and days following Vince Foster's death...
...Officers called in to work the highway patrol were allowed to submit time cards for a minimum of three hours work at double overtime rates...
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...Green Fees Local governments in Northern Virginia should be breathing a sigh of relief now that Bill Clinton has discovered the wonders of Maryland's Burning Tree and Congressional golf courses...
...Who is the Clinton cabinet member said to be taking getaway weekends in New York City at taxpayer expense to satisfy a most personal desire at premier S&M clubs the Vault and the Tunnel...
...I spent my career trying to campaign differently," Chiles said when the story broke in early November...
...Indeed, Boxer has been livid at her California colleague for taking relatively moderate stances on a number of issues—supporting securities-litigation reform, favoring tax reform, even backing criticism of the FBI over Ruby Ridge...
...Christopher Cox or state attorney general Dan Lungren...
...Newt Nixes Run Associates of Speaker Newt Gingrich say he informed them in mid-November that he would not run for the presidency...
...Now the talk in Tallahassee is of possible resignation by Chiles for violating campaign ethics laws: turns out his campaign authorized $360,000 on a last-minute dirty trick phone bank operation against his '94 opponent Jeb Bush...
...Whippersnapper...
...Just as receptive, though, were Maine's Olympia Snowe and William Cohen, and Oregon's Mark Hatfield...
...The White House so far has refused to ask the Treasury Department to offer reimbursement, despite at least five requests in the last half year by the Virginia congressional delegation that the federal government cover some of the costs...
...Hatfield is said to have told White House chief of staff Leon Panetta in a phone conversation that he is mulling not seeking re-election in '96, and that he would consider better offers for his support...
...Even if Gauldin did rat on his former boss, though, it's unlikely he ALL PHOTOS: AP /WIDE WORLD PHOTOwas the sole reason the monitoring scandal was finally broken in the press...
...In his first race for the U.S...
...Some offices held marathon showings," one Commerce staffer said...
...Fitzpatrick not only stayed for the entire hearing, but also hung around for committee chairman Sen...
...This required the National Park Police, and the police forces of Arlington, Falls Church, and Fairfax County, to close all on- and off-ramps along 1-66 to allow the presidential motorcade to pass securely...
...When conservative senators pressed Dole on why he allowed Burke to air her grievances in such a public manner, Dole claimed he 6 14 January 1996 • The American Spectator was just as angered and disappointed by her actions as they were...
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