On the Prowl
"On the Prowl" Protection Racket "We really miss the days of Reagan and Bush when we were treated with respect and allowed to do our jobs the best we could," a Secret Service officer told a member...
...I don't care if you're packing...
...Two days before the New Hampshire primary, a figure close to the Steve Forbes campaign tried to undercut the publisher's presidential bid by telling reporters that the Forbes team was meeting with counterparts in the Dole and Alexander camps to negotiate a possible Forbes endorsement after the Arizona and South Carolina primaries...
...No word yet on Hillary Clinton's feelings about Ward—though she did call his attorney Alston Jennings to the White House last August for a meeting with her attorney David Kendall...
...The resentment stems in part from Mrs...
...ON THE PROWL Protection Racket "We really miss the days of Reagan and Bush when we were treated with respect and allowed to do our jobs the best we could," a Secret Service officer told a member of a private tour visiting the White House under the auspices of a Southern state's congressional delegation...
...The Clinton spin doctors are second-guessing the GAO, which includes in its calculations the cost of employees from agencies like the FBI and IRS that are assigned to the independent counsel investigations...
...Although the center would have no official ties to the Democratic Party, the DNC has slated about $1.5 million for production of an infomercial to air in the weeks after the Democratic convention in Chicago...
...But the latest available figures from the GAO for Starr's office, running through last March, come to a total of $6,935,000...
...Insiders are also worried that Gingrich is improbably optimistic about the coming elections...
...The number, however, is completely bogus...
...Give Me a Head With Hair If it's true that voters want authenticity in their candidates, newly elected Oregon Democratic Sen...
...George Allen was summoned to a hastily called news conference in Manchester, where he joined Weld in endorsing Dole at an event introduced by still a third governor, New Hampshire's Steve Merrill...
...Using Senators Christopher Dodd and Carol Moseley-Braun, as well as other stooges on the call-in circuit, the White House has been circulating the phony claim that the cost of the investigation so far is at $3o million...
...The total budget for the year of hearings led by feisty Sen...
...He'll Have to Walk Alone A lingering image from the New Hampshire debate is Bob Dole proudly displaying a photo of himself and Mrs...
...But the White House inflates these, too...
...To Air Is Human A loudmouth at Washington's Tabard Inn was boasting recently about a plan hatched by songstress and deep thinker Barbra Streisand to create a "Center for New Media...
...Dole with their lovely dog, Leader...
...The Prowler was touched that Dole carries the photo with him—according to Dole staffers, the senator hasn't seen much of the pooch in months...
...And the books are already closed on Fiske's tenure...
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...The American Spectator is after me for an interview," Hugh recently told a group of Miami Democrats...
...Who's the Judas...
...Visitors also learned that as soon as Mrs...
...But with Dole's numbers sliding and those of crossfirer Pat Buchanan rising, Dole aides worried that an appearance with a liberal Republican wouldn't do much good in New Hampshire or the South...
...It's not clear he will speak to this magazine again...
...If Minnesota Sen...
...I'm not going to dignify that magazine with one...
...We just kept getting put off...
...Inflated Charges Continuing to fight the Whitewater investigation on all fronts, the White House has begun a disinformation campaign about the cost of the Senate committee's investigation of the land-deal debacle...
...But the biggest complaint is that both the president and first lady fail to give adequate notice about their schedules, leaving no time for the advance work critical to the first family's safety...
...With $10 million raised with the help of the Democratic National Committee and Barbra's rich pals, the center would function as a liberal think tank, as well as create liberal-minded radio and television programming...
...So Virginia Gov...
...He also refused to go along with campaign advisers who wanted to have his high-pitched voice altered electronically to a lower register in television and radio ads...
...William Weld, darling of the liberal Republicans, finally promised to endorse Bob Dole —and in return the Dole campaign promised Weld he could make his endorsement in a one-on-one photo-op with the senator, a tactic designed to boost Weld in his Senate race against incumbent John Kerry...
...combined with the $400,000 for the other congressional hearings, the grand total for the investigation comes in at less than $2 million — a frugal tally compared to staff-heavy extravaganzas like the Iran-contra and Watergate investigations...
...One officer said the president calls those precious moments his "dash for freedom...
...Senate in 1994 against GOP incumbent Connie Mack, is said still to hold a huge grudge against the Democratic establishment for not helping him out financially in that bid for respectability...
...He continues to tell supporters at fundraisers around the country that Republicans stand to pick up thirty to forty seats in the House —when Senate and Republican National Committee polls show the GOP will be lucky to hold on to the majority it won in 1994...
...When several of the guests arrived wearing National Rifle Association buttons, a uniformed officer at the gate quipped to them, "Come on in...
...Alfonse D'Amato was $950,000, and he underspent that by more than $11,000...
...Paul Wellstone could get elected with his lispy voice and hangdog looks, Wyden reasoned, why couldn't he...
...A Clinton "talking point" says Kenneth Starr has cost the taxpayer nearly $17 million, and Robert Fiske, nearly $6 million...
...Weld was outraged, not least because he had passed up what was a better deal from Phil Gramm—an offer of financial help for Weld's campaign in exchange for an endorsement...
...Clinton's expectation that the Secret Service staff perform menial tasks such as pouring coffee, carrying and hanging coats, and removing cat hair from the furniture...
...For a while there was talk within the campaign 1 4 April 199 6 • The American Spectator of producing a warm and fuzzy commercial that would depict Dole with wife and daughter in private moments, including one in which the candidate would be shown walking his dog...
...As the wife of imprisoned former associate attorney general Webb Hubbell, Suzy has told friends and political associates that she blames her father for her hubby's demise...
...In early February GOP congressional leadership staffs began mapping out election themes to be developed by Republicans in the months ahead, while some sources suggest that Gingrich is preoccupied with the independent counsel's investigation of ethics charges against him...
...The campaign has been so successful that the fact-challenged Washington bureau of the Wall Street Journal reported the figure in the paper's "Washington Week" column...
...These days the neglected canine is being watched after by support staff at the Watergate, where the Doles maintain an apartment...
...I have always refrained from using adjectives in political discussions, but the time has come to name these border-line terrorists and fascists...
...Dodd and Moseley-Braun admit—when pressed—that the figures they were given include budgets for the independent counsels...
...We couldn't get anyone from the leader's office moving on anything," says one Senate aide who worked on the proposal...
...It's run by neo-Nazis...
...Dishonor Thy Father Suzanne Hubbell has broken off all contact with her father, Seth Ward, over his involvement with Castle Grande and the Madison Guaranty collapse...
...Newt in Neutral Top Republicans in both the House and Senate are concerned that Speaker Newt Gingrich has lost his political focus and isn't taking the '96 campaign seriously enough...
...The White House guesstimates the rest, coming up with the nice, round, voter-scaring, and inaccurate sum of $3o million...
...according to the General Accounting Office, it cost $2,363,46...
...They want to turn America into a giant concentration camp...
...Rodham, who ran an embarrassing race for the U.S...
...Dole nixed the idea...
...Evidently quite at home with his milquetoast image, Wyden rejected a political consultant's suggestion that he have his thinning hair restyled and thickened to conceal his rapidly balding pate...
...Super Tuesday Weld After months of sitting on the fence, Massachu setts Gov...
...But Starr's office tells the Prowler that its total spending from the last reporting period—August 1994 to September 30, 1995—came to $4,457,658...
...Nor has anyone else on Capitol Hill...
...The White House sticks to the GAO figures for Fiske, which come to an additional $3.6 million...
...In sharp contrast to earlier successes, the speaker's staff failed to generate support for a watered-down Contract With America II that had been floating around Capitol Hill for months...
...Dole took part—via telephone...
...Where does the White House come up with that extra $16 million...
...Dole chided Steve Forbes for not running the photo in his anti-Dole ads...
...In other words, this is money already in the federal budget for people already on the federal payroll...
...Clinton leaves the White House for more than a few hours, the president will immediately announce he wants to get out, too...
...The comment was typical of the disdain many of his colleagues feel for the first couple...
...Not a Subscriber Last fall, Hillary's little brother Hugh Rodham took a short and pleasant phone call from a TAS reporter who'd called to verify a phone message Rod-ham had left for former associate attorney general Webb Hubbell...
...There were never any such meetings, in fact—the renegade was evidently upset about the influence enjoyed in the Forbes camp by former advisers to Jesse Helms...
...Starr's office says the estimate is "way off...
...His recent extension request asked for an additional $600,000...
...Ron Wyden made the right choices during his run to replace Bob Packwood...
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