On the Prowl
ON THE PROWL The Next Cisneros? Is a sixth Clinton Cabinet member on his way to acquiring a personal independent counsel? The Prowler has learned that federal agents are looking into complaints...
...His new epilogue also attacks Matt Drudge and Jackie Judd for reporting on the "elusive semen-stained dress": "The Washington Post and other news outlets soon published the charge...
...In August he sponsored a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser in Atlanta for New York Sen...
...What would happen, McCurry wondered, if it turned out that Clinton was telling the truth...
...Majority leader Dick Armey was in transit from California...
...Meanwhile, Howard Kurtz has come along again to sucker punch McCurry...
...His work is already paying off...
...No use for Kurtz to crow, alas...
...He's been trying to ingratiate himself with New York Republicans for some time," says an aide in Gingrich's office...
...He was not a happy camper, to the point that when the first lady and Chelsea wanted to go to church on Sunday, he basically moped around and refused to go," says the official...
...After a night at the home of Steven Spielberg, Clinton asked staffers to arrange a tee time for him at the Hamptons' exclusive Maidstone Country Club...
...Departing White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry is now telling friends that after a two-week family vacation this fall, he will immediately go out on the lecture circuit, where he has been told he can pull in as much as $r million in his first year...
...Glicken has reportedly told investigators he was informed that if he met a donation quota in the '96 campaign, Miami would be given the 2000 Democratic National Convention...
...the New York Post ran a screaming headline about 'Monica's Love Dress.' Days later, when it became apparent that there was no such dress, no news outlet ran a retraction...
...A Capitol Hill source says the Federal Bureau of Investigation has interviewed long-time Gore friend and backer Howard Glicken, a Miami real-estate developer who in July pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for soliciting an illegal foreign contribution in 1993...
...Gingrich, meanwhile, seems desperate to shore up his own support in Congress...
...Who made the promise is unknown...
...Now in a new epilogue to his book's paperback edition, he depicts Mike in slavish devotion to Clinton himself: "At a breakfast with thirty Los Angeles Times reporters, he ripped the press for having made up its mind about Clinton and Lewinsky...
...Dennis Hastert, currently chief deputy whip...
...Then there was the $10,000 worth of foie gras that a caterer had to toss because the Baldwins refused to serve food derived from tortured fowl...
...He's already agreed to include the scandal in the promotional package that goes out to prospective clients...
...Sure enough, they 14 October 1998 • The American Spectator involved bombing Afghanistan and Sudan with cruise missiles...
...They'd attract a lot of attention, not only from corporations looking for a D.C...
...Healing Time President Clinton tried at least twice to set up a tee time with Vernon Jordan while on Martha's Vineyard, but Hillary vetoed those plans...
...It's unclear if the underemployed Mrs...
...While Gingrich is willing to forgive and forget for the sake of D'Amato's reelection, he's also aware that the powerful senator can help improve his shaky standing with New York's congressional delegation...
...The family-owned thrift beat back a takeover attempt by Cuomo and a group of New York investors in the mid-1980's...
...He's even stepped forward and pushed for New York to get the 2000 convention...
...We ended up going to a public course instead...
...Chopped Liver The Hamptons fundraiser hosted by Hollywood stars Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger at their Long Island mansion on August 1 proved costly for the Democratic National Committee...
...One participant in a lunch aboard investor Robert Day's yacht said Mrs...
...He won't be making Colin Powell money, but he'll do just fine for himself...
...The investigation is a hot potato kicking around FBI bureaus and the Justice Department's Office of Public Integrity...
...Bill Paxon and Democrat Vic Fazio—as ideologically incompatible as Orrin Hatch and Ted Kennedy—are seriously discussing forming a lobbying partnership once they leave Congress next January...
...We've pretty much decided that the leadership needs only one Texan in its ranks—and Dick Armey is more than enough to fill that slot...
...Michael Forbes, the Long Island moderate who was one of five Republicans to oppose Gingrich's re-election as speaker last year in the wake of the anti-Newt ethics show trial...
...In his recent book, Spin Cycle, Kurtz revealed some unflattering things McCurry had to say about Mrs...
...The American Spectator . October 1998 15...
...Paxon, Susan Molinari, would be involved in the office...
...He knows that it will make him more marketable...
...He's jokingly calling it his 'college and retirement nest egg,'" says a White House press staffer...
...But similar promises are said to have been made to prominent DNC donors in Chicago and Los Angeles...
...Gingrich told him not to call for Clinton's head on a platter," says the leadership source...
...now it charges that Cuomo is misusing federal power to retaliate for the owners' refusal to help cover up the lurid details...
...We were in danger of blowing one of the highest profile events of the year because some New York Democratic Party guy had failed to do his research," laments a DNC official...
...The family wound up staying home, alone...
...When Jordan asked Clinton to play on the day after the birthday party he hosted for him, Hillary informed Jordan the family had already made plans...
...Hang Down Your Head Look for House Speaker Newt Gingrich to make a play after the November elections to oust House Republican Whip Tom DeLay in favor of Illinois Rep...
...The fair-haired boy of the administration and Kennedy in-law is said to dream of a Gore-Cuomo ticket in the year 2000, but he may be running afoul of a longstanding business dispute with south Florida's Ocean-mark Federal Savings Bank...
...Between that and his nakedly pursuing the support of younger members at the expense of the speaker, we've just about had it with him," says the source...
...presence, but plenty of politicians looking to use their fund-raising knowledge for campaigns...
...The Prowler has learned that federal agents are looking into complaints about Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo...
...The club said it was fully booked for the day, and that members are always given priority," says one of the staffers...
...But not a peep emerged in his confir0 mation hearings...
...Fazio and Paxon would be a powerful shop for Democrats and Republicans alike, particularly in helping congressional candidates raise funds and in directing clients who want to make political donations to the right people on the Hill...
...In going his own way DeLay was the sole Republican leader to make the resignation demand...
...Promises, Promises Vice President Al Gore will have plenty to worry about if Attorney General Janet Reno puts the federal investigation into campaign fundraising on the front-burner...
...Because the house was unfurnished, the DNC wound up spending more than $5o,000 in interior design consultation fees and antique furniture rentals just to make the ground floor presentable...
...Cash McCurry For months he wouldn't talk about the Clinton scandals, but then again he wasn't being offered cash for comments...
...And evidently Mike is having no qualms about profiting from the Lewinsky matter...
...Some of Cuomo's former 9 partners are turning out to be ; pretty unsavory...
...The White House press office was told before the first family left that there would be few if any public appearances, and that golf outings would most likely not occur," says a White House press official...
...Dan Burton is about to haul Glicken and other DNC moneybags before his committee—with the approval of FBI director Louis Freeh...
...An Odd Coupling Word along the Gucci Gulch corridor on Capitol Hill is that retiring Republican Rep...
...DeLay's fate, a leadership source says, was probably sealed when he called for Bill Clinton's resignation the day after the president's grand jury testimony and speech to the nation...
...Was that 0 because Senate Banking committee Chairman Alfonse D'Amato, the leading New York Republican, keeps some of the same company...
...A shop with Paxon and Fazio puts them in the top tier of lobbyists/consultants in Washington," says a onetime Hill staffer turned lobbyist...
...But Maidstone declined to extend an invitation...
...Everybody here—be honest about it—there is not a person in the room who still has any presumption of innocence with respect to the president...
...D'Amato has reportedly promised to broker a truce between Gingrich and Rep...
...Hastert caught Newt's eye this summer as someone who is loyal, keeps a low profile, and rejects the role of DeLay underling...
...Alfonse D'Amato — the same man who in the heady days of1995 savaged Gingrich for ostensibly pushing the Republican Party too far right...
...And so Clinton went golfless on his week-long vacation...
...While a good time was ultimately had by all, the president had less fun the next day...
...Clinton's presence among the dozen guests made for a "grim," "tight-lipped," and "oppressive" atmosphere...
...Those orders came during a conference call among Gingrich, DeLay, and John Boehner the day of Clinton's testimony...
...The Clintons weren't the only ones having a tough time...
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