On the Prowl
ON THE PROWL Remember Al Gore? Things didn't go well for the sitting veep on what was considered a dry run campaign swing through California in March. Sticking to Southern California, Gore...
...We told the speaker that it was very early in the campaign, and Tom wanted to get a bit of traction among undecideds and moderate Republicans," says a Bordonaro aide...
...Calling Bauer's plan "short-sighted," Reed has told prospective clients he will not allow Bauer's ads to run in their campaigns...
...I cannot fathom the thought of this poor, sick baby cruelly and permanently removed from his mother's side...
...By all accounts, the March io event was stunning: a big white tent in the garden, gold chairs and place settings, gleaming candelabra and flowers flown in from Chicago just for the event...
...We called, and they said the check was in the mail," says the Bordonaro aide...
...We knew we had the conservative vote, we weren't worried about them...
...A New Profile What has happened to former director of the Christian Coalition Ralph Reed...
...Such Democratic loyalists as Lew Wasserman, Michael Ovitz, Robin Williams, and Steven Spiel-berg even declined requests for small dinner party fundraisers for the man who would replace Bubba...
...One staff assistant said the deputy counsel she worked for was 'pleased' with the story...
...At one point, he was considered a front-runner to serve as an adviser on a George W. Bush presidential campaign, but his recent campaign tactics might kill that deal...
...But that was mainly because no one else wanted to meet with him...
...By then, it was too late to do any good against more than six weeks of paid media attacks by the Capps campaign...
...A DNC source told the Prowler that at least five donors, angered by their exposure to the elements, requested the return of their $10,000 checks...
...All the while Clinton remained warm and toasty—he had a space heater behind the podium...
...Scheduled to take place after the G8 summit meeting of world leaders in Birmingham, it looks sure to be another embarrassment for America—much like his last overseas gig...
...mayor Richard Riordan...
...Gingrich relented only two weeks before the special election—and only after Bordonaro's campaign went public with its plea for funds from Washington...
...The Music Man Normally the president likes to be on the receiving end, but in May Bill Clinton will be blowing his saxophone at England's famous jazz club, Ronnie Scott's...
...In more bad news for Newt, Bordonaro is expected to challenge Capps again this fall...
...four big heaters were supposed to keep the 120 guests from freezing...
...Apparently the actress doesn't have the memory of, er, an elephant...
...But when Clinton got up to say a few words, he asked that the heaters be turned off so everyone could hear what he had to say...
...In her Oscar speech the actress thanked only her father, even though it was her mother who forsook a promising modeling career to give Basinger a steady home life—and who went with her to therapy to help her sort out her inner disturbances...
...In his deposition Clinton admitted to knowing Monica Lewinsky and having a sexual relationship with Gennifer Flowers...
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...Actually she can fathom it quite well: Basinger has completely cut herself off from her own mother for years, not even letting her see her two-year-old granddaughter...
...The Greatest Showgirl on Earth The Department of Agriculture has launched an investigation into the world-famous Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus after one of its animals, a three-year-old Indian elephant named Kenny, died in January from an intestinal infection...
...parties, those attempts were rebuffed...
...It never showed up...
...The o trip was fine, as far as it went, but we didn't make any money and we didn't make 0 any new friends like we hoped," says a Gore staffer now assigned to the DNC...
...The day the Post article appeared, the White House counsel's office was surprisingly upbeat, the staffer says...
...First, there is his decision to back hometown boy Mitch Skandalakis, currently Fulton County Commission chairman...
...Gingrich has known Tom for years, and the speaker told us he understood...
...After he jammed with some musicians at a club in the Czech Republic, a clandestine recording of the session was released around the world on compact disc...
...Before providing any answers, Toiv asked senior White House officials for guidance, and they evidently contacted Clinton...
...Not that Clinton would admit it publicly...
...Reed scoured the country looking for conservative clients, but failed to woo many...
...If she did testify, they had no idea what she would say...
...On learning of the slight, Gingrich's staff asked Bordonaro's people "what gives...
...This elephant most likely suffered more anguish and misery than we will ever know," she pined in one letter...
...Bordonaro, a hardcore conservative to the point that even though handicapped he's called for the repeal of the Americans with Disabilities Act, responded to a question at a bipartisan business lunch by saying he wasn't sure he would support Gingrich for speaker...
...Deposition Disposal "There's a good reason why some people in the White House are trying to use executive privilege," says a White House staffer: "the president's Paula Jones deposition that 14 May 1998 • The American Spectator was leaked to the Washington Post...
...The Prez Blows...
...This source says the deposition, which was leaked several days before the Jones camp released it during a court filing, was passed on to Post White House correspondent Peter Baker as a preemptive strike...
...While Baker was not given the actual transcript, a Mite House source provided him with detailed explanations of its contents and read extensively from the president's remarks while Baker took notes...
...Walter Capps is Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who refused to provide Bordonaro's campaign with the $300,000 he'd promised—for the pettiest of reasons, it turns out...
...According to a Capitol Hill source, Gingrich was asked about the check at least four times in the weeks leading up to the election...
...More important to the White House, it provided Clinton's version of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky...
...Basinger repeatedly wrote the agency, alleging that the circus had made the animal work even though it knew he was sick...
...When the time came to run TV and radio spots, Bordonaro's campaign turned to the Gingrich-controlled House Republican Congressional Campaign Committee for the promised $300,000...
...Its title...
...The explanation he got turned out to be so weird, Toiv refused to go on the record with specifics...
...Each time the response was no...
...They were hoping the Post leak might give her a road map, and then they'd cross their fingers that she would play along...
...Once thought to be a solid conservative, he has apparently gone off the reservation in his new career as an Atlanta-based political consultant...
...It was also close to 30 degrees outside when the alfresco event got started...
...A Cool Half Million Anti-tobacco lawyer and Democratic big-wig Stanley Chesley recently volunteered his Cincinnati estate for a $500,000 party fundraiser attended by President Clinton...
...the other half remained politely shivering in its chairs, perhaps frozen in place...
...Sticking to Southern California, Gore pandered to the usual crowd: teachers' unions, government employees, and his pal, pseudo-Republican L.A...
...Show Me the Money The only person to blame for Tom Bordonaro's loss to Lois Capps in March's special election to fill the California seat of her husband Rep...
...By the time he finished thirty minutes later, half the crowd had made a dash for the warmth of the house...
...Skandalakis may be a Republican, but he is running for Georgia lieutenant governor as a supporter of partial-birth abortions, homosexual partner benefits and marriages, and tax increases to fund new state social programs.Then there's Reed's vocal criticism of the Family Research Council's Gary Bauer for running anti–partial birth abortion spots in support of conservative congressional candidates...
...A Cancer on the Presidency It was assumed that President Clinton agreed to neuter his dog Buddy because such animal-population control enthusiasts as Doris Day and Betty White demanded it...
...Some Gore people suspect that high-flying Democratic fundraiser Terry McAuliffe may have badmouthed Gore to his celebrity buddies—in anticipation of two high profile April fundraising and get-to-know-you dinners McAuliffe set up in Los Angeles for Gore rival Richard Gephardt...
...The White House already knew that [presidential secretary] Betty Currie was going to be called again, but they heard rumblings from Kendall and Bennett that Lewinsky might be called before the grand jury within two or three days," says the White House staffer, who added that some in-the White House had been trying to figure out a way to reach out to Lewinsky...
...Although Clinton and his lawyers brazenly complained about the illegality of the leak and tried to blame it on Kenneth Starr or Paula Jones's attorneys, the Post's version of the deposition presented Clinton in a more favorable light than the document does as a whole...
...Although such advisers as former White House counsel Jack Quinn attempted to arrange several Hollywood fundraisers for Gore, in the manner and style of Clinton's famous L.A...
...Says Kim's mom: "If it weren't for me, she'd be working in Woolworth's...
...The inquiry was launched after the USDA was besieged by letters from actress Kim Basinger, whose husband and fellow actor Alec Baldwin is a Democratic activist and political hopeful...
...So with press secretary Mike McCurry traveling with the president, it fell to deputy press secretary Barry Toiv to deal with press queries about Buddy's impending loss of manhood...
...But he did tell reporters on background that the real reason was Clinton's concern that Buddy might develop testicular cancer...
Vol. 31 • May 1998 • No. 5
