On the Prowl
0 N THE PROWL Paved With Good Intentions On his recent Central America trip, Bill Clinton visited Costa Rica's Braulio Carrillo National Park, a government-protected rain forest that had been...
...Gephardt had to get the budget briefing papers from the office of Senate minority leader Tom Daschle instead...
...Key Clinton pal and investigation target Charles Trie appears to have fled for China...
...The veep isn't going to make it any easier for Gephardt than he has to," says someone on the Gore staff...
...The GOP, a Hill source tells the Prowler, "allowed Clinton's education initiatives to be frontloaded into the first two years of the agreement...
...Now, after the 9-o ruling in the Paula Jones case, Hamzy has been in touch with Jones's lawyers...
...That's welcome news for the GOP...
...Fred Thompson intends to ask the Senate for an extension...
...but, says the source, "the leadership is already taking so much heat that it isn't something they're willing to admit" Zzzzz While his boss was droning on about welfare reform during a recent speech, Vice President Al Gore nodded off on the stage—at least twice...
...The Costa Ricans were eager to pave the walkway for the president," a White House staffer tells the Prowler...
...Of course Edgar may well decline, and run for re-election as governor instead...
...Mitch McConnell, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Committee, is lobbying Illinois governor Jim Edgar, a popular moderate, to take on the rookie...
...That gave Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott a perfect soundbite of success—but GOP sources say both cuts will have to be jettisoned before the president signs the agreement...
...Not expected to have a serious Democratic challenger, Edgar could stockpile money—and, the Prowler hears, he may even have designs on a dark-horse presidential run in 2000...
...Friends in High Places g President Clinton threw a 3 surprise 49th birthday party for adviser and longtime associate Bruce Lindsey aboard Air Force One on a late May flight to Paris...
...At least twenty-five subpoenas intended for memben of the Southern California Buddhist temple who donated at the behest of Al Gore, for example, have not been served...
...Democrats are expected to block an extension of the investigation to ensure the mess doesn't roll over into the 1998 campaign...
...A Bridge to Favre Teammates of Green Bay Packer Mark Chmura say that the All-Pro tight end is one of their most stand-up guys...
...Though Clinton's then–press spokesman called her tale a lie, Hamzy has since passed a polygraph test...
...The Illinois Democrat "is on the outs with colleagues in the Senate and with potential donors"—so much so that she remains nearly half a million dollars in debt from her 1992 race and has thus far raised less than $5o,000 for the 1998 campaign...
...Chmura tried to persuade fishing buddy and Green Bay star quarterback Brett Favre to decline the White House invite as well, but Favre ended up front and center in the White House festivities...
...George Pataki, who, after much very public squabbling with his lieutenant governor, Elizabeth McCaughey Ross, dropped her from the reelection ticket...
...Parris Glendening is said to be at wit's end with his lieutenant governor, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend...
...Not only are her "outspoken and demanding" ways driving him crazy, but he feels "powerless" to keep her from sticking her nose into his business...
...Whether she leaves and runs for the Senate or loses to a tougher Democrat in the House, that'll be one less problem we have to deal with...
...And there is no way we can pay for them unless we eat the capital-gains cut and limit the child tax credit to incomes under $6o,000...
...In early March, someone torched the document-storage complex in South Brunswick, New Jersey, owned by Iron Mountain Inc...
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...But Moseley-Braun's poll numbers are so bad that the governor may not be able to resist...
...During the '96 presidential campaign, when Clinton took advantage of a photo-op with the Packers to give them a pep talk, Chmura walked out—and was fined by the team for refusing to pose with the prez...
...Smith hasn't had "any significant political role since she went off the reservation after '96," says one GOP staffer...
...So part of the pristine rain forest was bulldozed—and a 350-foot strip of asphalt was put down to facilitate the stroll of the Environmentalist-in-Chief...
...In May, a similar blaze broke out in another commercial records warehouse in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, owned by Diversified Records Services...
...In the Trie Top With the mandate for his Senate committee's investigation into fundraising irregularities in the '96 campaign slated to expire at the end of the year, Sen...
...They seemed to understand how important a photo-op this was for us...
...The House leadership is less eager to see the departure of House Republican Conference Committee Secretary Jennifer Dunn, who's also mulling over a challenge to Murray...
...We destroy these resources at our peril," said Clinton, speaking from a platform that had been built for the occasion...
...What do they expect...
...Dunn is a rising star in the House and a protegee of both Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey,who would like her to remain where she is...
...The trouble was that, after the Costa Ricans had built the special platform, White House officials determined that it was too remote—a little more than ioo yards from an access road—and that the walk there was too hilly and difficult for the president, who's still on crutches after a late-night spill at the home of a professional golfer...
...Her pedigree, moreover, won't allow Glendening to follow the cue of New York Gov...
...In other Kennedy news of a non-indictable nature, Maryland Gov...
...Another Democratic senator who's got Republicans licking their chops is Washington's Patty Murray, whose tennis shoes wore out sometime ago...
...Ticky Tax In the end, the tentative 1997 balanced-budget agreement that was hammered out includes a capital-gains tax cut and an across-the-board $50oper-child tax credit...
...Just like Webb Hubbell, David Watkins, and Vince Foster...
...That we're not going to use any advantage we have to gain an edge" for 2000...
...Investigators have been blocked from speaking with dozens of key witnesses...
...Moseley on Down An "underachiever" and a "disappointment" — that's how a DNC source characterizes freshman senator Carol Moseley-Braun, who not so long ago was a party favorite and the poster girl for the "Year of the Woman...
...Close Encounters In 1991 a Miss Connie Hamzy went public with her account of a lusty encounter with Bill Clinton during his tenure in the state house...
...They apparently were drawn by rumors that the warehouse clients included major DNC contributors whose names had figured in recent headlines...
...Ever one to be on the make, he also demanded up-to-the-minute info about those negotiations—and was peeved when Al Gore's office froze him out...
...And some DNC staffers who have talked to Senate investigators say that Thompson's committee has yet to see documents that will show the current estimate of the total amount of questionable donations ($3-4 million) is low...
...Linda Smith has already announced she'll take Murray on, much to the delight of House Republican leaders, who can't stand her...
...The reason...
...In toasting his devoted Arkansas retainer, Clinton called Lindsey a "loyal and trusted friend from home...
...Chmura stood his ground again recently, when he refused to travel with the team to visit the White House in honor of their Super Bowl title...
...Will the countless other women who've had dubious Clinton encounters join a class-action suit...
...0 N THE PROWL Paved With Good Intentions On his recent Central America trip, Bill Clinton visited Costa Rica's Braulio Carrillo National Park, a government-protected rain forest that had been selected specially by White House aides as the perfect setting for the president to deliver a booming pro-environment speech...
...He even declined to autograph a ball for the nation's fumbler-in-chief...
...Gingrich, Lott, and the rest of the Republican leadership know this...
...Bob Walker—and has consistently refused to fall in line with other House conservatives on such issues as election finance reform and health care...
...After several tries, the attacker leveled a warehouse containing 85o,000 cartons of documents...
...She dissed Newt Gingrich in the election for Speaker voting instead for former Pennsylvania Rep...
...piles of paper were still smoldering weeks later...
...will make a Senate run in z000 if Daniel Patrick Moynihan retires...
...The Clan New York Democratic Party sources tell the Prowler that babe magnet and George honcho John F. Kennedy, Jr...
...White House staffers blamed the veep's drowsiness on his new allergy medication...
...Untricky Dick Ever one to be sanctimonious, House leader Dick Gephardt refused to participate in the recent balanced16 July 1997 • The American Spectator budget negotiations...
...Will Chmura ever catch a pass from Favre again...
...Among others, investigators from Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's office—which has its own interest in several of the figures involved in the DNC scandals—showed up at the West Pittston site, even though it hadn't yet been declared arson...
...Said one Gore staffer: "Better that than putting everyone else to sleep...
...Iron Mountain Files Probers of the DNC fundraising scandals are keeping an eye on a wave of arson attacks at two records-storage warehouses used by more than zoo corporations and brokerage houses for old business records...
...The seven-day fire consumed some 800,000 boxes...
Vol. 30 • July 1997 • No. 7
