Correspondence
Debating The Facts of Labor In "John Sweeney and the State of His Union" (Oct. 21), Matt Labash attacks both the old guard and the new at the AFL-CIO: the moderate Left, the near-Left, the...
...Helms opposes legislation designed to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination—he believes that it should be legal, for example, for a bigoted employer to fire a gay or lesbian employee simply because of his or her sexual orientation...
...While the lack of enthusiasm for the "senior staff" is certainly understandable, the rest of his account is the opposite of my personal recollection...
...Not true...
...At a moment's notice, Plan A would be scrapped in favor of Plan B; then Plan A would be reinstated at the drop of a hat...
...The Real Anita Hill and Brock's tour de force review of Hill's Strange Justice suggest that no one in this world better understands Anita Hill's personality...
...So I wonder why she seems surprised at a second gentlemanly book...
...But with all seriousness, Labash has written a scathing article, and he must be held to certain standards of truthfulness...
...But the way this agreement works, he's got to do it...
...All letters should be addressed: Correspondence Editor The Weekly Standard 1150 17th St., NW Washington, DC 20036...
...I found most campaign advance crews to be officious, self-important, and dismissive of the efforts of local volunteers...
...Dole should never have been the Republican candidate, proving again you can't strike a deal with the devil and expect dreams to be realized...
...Helms favors making gays and lesbians second-class citizens...
...It might help if he talked to one of the Dole "advisers" he so scornfully writes about...
...Coia] did what you normally don't see puppets do, he said, 'I can kick [the mob] out too.'" Carl E. Booker LiUNA Vice-President Washington, DC Matt Labash responds: Glad to hear Mr...
...If the Democrats (read Clinton) grant a pardon, it's in the best interest of the community (or is that "village...
...So long as America has reduced fathers to unappreciated paychecks, it should surprise no one that our society decays...
...Jumping the GOP Ship Regarding the editorial "Saving the GOP From Dole-Kemp 96" (Oct...
...If women are free to do as they please, men will no longer be responsible for women...
...By telling fathers that they have to marry the mothers of their children, one is also telling mothers that they must marry the fathers...
...21), Matt Labash attacks both the old guard and the new at the AFL-CIO: the moderate Left, the near-Left, the far-Left, the Left Bank (given his disdain for an AFL-CIO-owned Paris apartment), feminists, civil-rights leaders, young activists, and . . . well, just about anyone and everyone else slightly more liberal than Genghis Khan...
...Those "male chauvinist pigs" of the '50s told us exactly what would happen, however inarticulately...
...21): The editors are just scratching the surface...
...Carlson writes derisively of the traveling "senior staff" and slams the Secret Service, yet tosses bouquets to the advancemen...
...Hill intentionally lied or fabricated...
...Ted Lindsay Westport, CT The Weekly Standard welcomes letters to the editor...
...Rodham" by Gary Schmitt (Oct...
...That is a most unusual source of political insight for a conservative magazine...
...Matthew Rees's article on the Louisiana Senate race is amusing in its naivete ("Woody and the Moon Child," Oct...
...14): it is quite apparent to this lifelong Democrat that the Clintons speak with forked tongues...
...Decter is right: "Gentlemanly" describes The Real Anita Hill, as inoffensive as the evidence allowed...
...Coia...
...They just did their jobs, and helped us do ours...
...He purchased his house thirty years ago at a low cost and a high mortgage, and can hardly be held personally responsible for the appreciation of Rhode Island real estate...
...Coia's youthful investment has paid off so handsomely...
...28) seems to confuse "the real David Brock" with his fabricated persona as The Consummate Hatchet Man...
...This is the same John Mag-innis who is very much an active supporter of left-wing Democrats and who always comes down on the port side of his writings...
...I pray that conservative Republicans jump ship and turn to Howard Phillips's Tax Reform party and get leaders like Judge Bork, Dick Cheney, and Dick Armey to put together a new Contract With America...
...Trying to force men to support the children whom women can abort or give away to a unilaterally selected third party clearly tells us that parenthood is a woman's option...
...Perhaps if I had interviewed Mr...
...Charles Wood Oro Valley, AZ Secret Service, Not so Bad As a veteran of several presidential campaigns—as both a volunteer and paid staff member on the state lev-el—I was stunned to read Tucker Carlson's ode to advancemen, "The Quixotic Quest for the Perfect Dole Picture" (Oct...
...On the one hand, he says what a strong candidate Mary Landrieu is (and I agree she is a strong candidate...
...Booker would surely deny such prosperity had anything to do with a real-estate partnership, as reported by the Washington Monthly, that saw Coia illegally act as a landlord for his own union offices and sell a souring real-estate investment to a LIUNA legal fund for $2.3 million...
...Henry E. Heatherly Lafayette, la Think of the Men John J. Dilulio has failed to notice the changes in our society regarding motherhood and equal rights ("Bring Back Shotgun Weddings," Oct...
...A society cannot, to any beneficial effect, reward and subsidize amoral motherhood while trying to control it by pursuing the sperm donors...
...First, Labash suggests that General President Coia has amassed a great personal fortune as the head of the nation's largest construction-trades union, including a mansion in Rhode Island...
...I'd love to see DiIulio even try to enforce that...
...The case didn't go to a jury since a judge ruled that the statute of limitations had expired...
...Let me try to explain...
...Brock's portrait of Jimmy Carter was also sympathetic and powerful...
...Landrieu was one of the opponents Foster beat in the open primary in 1995...
...Anderson he could have explained why he seemed to be looking through the view-finder of his "cassette-corder...
...But the fact is, the Secret Service never made us jump through hoops for their own amusement...
...The salary he receives is set by the union's constitution for whoever holds the office of general president— not for Mr...
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...Brock perhaps "expos[ed] Anita Hill's lies," but he plainly does not believe that Prof...
...Jack Gabriel Carson, CA Labeling Helms is Easy Apparently The Weekly Standard is puzzled as to why the New York Times labeled Sen...
...Second, Labash reports that in 1994 the Justice Department characterized Mr...
...Coia worked his way through college and law school, as a laborer and as a musician, to become a successful attorney in private practice...
...The agents told us that the advancemen were just testing our mettle, to see if we'd crack under the pressure...
...Paul Coffey, chief of the Justice Department's Organized Crime and Racketeering section, testified that "[Mr...
...Coffey also said that while Coia's lawyers insisted he was going along voluntarily, "I don't know anything about that—we're skeptical...
...Mark Wylie Los Angeles, CA Give Brock a Break Midge Decter's "How Hillary Rodham Seduced David Brock" (Oct...
...Then Rees reveals one of his key sources on Louisiana politics: John Maginnis...
...Coia personally...
...Gene Hopp Bellevue, WA Pardon the Duality Regarding "Pardon Me, Ms...
...As the Washington Monthly also reported, it should be remembered that Coia's successful law practice saw him indicted in 1981 along with his father, Arthur Coia, Sr., and crime boss Raymond Patriarca "for racketeering and taking bribes from an insurance swindler" who had been Coia's client...
...What gives in Louisiana...
...Invoking archaic solutions would be useless and counterproductive...
...Jesse Helms "anti-homosexual" (Scrapbook, Oct...
...Given the fog of reflexive lies peculiar to all things Clinton, the half-truths, and the inevitable honest confusion in all human affairs, a journalist like Brock would be useless if we could always predict his conclusions...
...Essentially, Sen...
...Letters will be edited for length and clarity and must include the writer's name, address, and phone number...
...If DiIulio really wants to promote the quality of American fatherhood, he could start with the meager but natural modification of insuring fathers the first right of adoption for their own children when the mother is giving them away or even selling them through surrogate motherhood...
...He also favors legislation, such as the misnamed Defense of Marriage Act, that is explicitly designed to deny gays and lesbians some of their constitutional rights as citizens...
...It is entirely appropriate to call him anti-homosexual...
...Coia as a "mob puppet," but he fails to mention that the department now questions that view of Mr...
...If the Republicans grant a pardon, they are being mean-spirited and self-serving...
...I suppose the red Ferrari, the home in Delray Beach, and the expensive dog-breeding business that saw him try to mate his stud with the bitch of a New England mob boss were also the result of Rhode Island real-estate appreciation...
...I've seen advance teams storm into a local campaign headquarters and turn it upsidedown...
...Let me take this opportunity to set the record straight about Arthur Coia and the Laborers' International Union of North America...
...Sen...
...Either Carlson cannot tell a Sony TCM-59V cassette-corder from a Kodak camera or he needs glasses...
...Coia has elected to turn . . . on La Cosa Nostra because he has no choice...
...The magazine reported that this outside income augmented Coia's salary by $218,959 in 1994...
...on the other, he writes that Gov...
...But then, I guess this is the "new reporting" and we don't need to waste time on those pesky interviews...
...While Mr...
...Booker portrays Paul Coffey as exonerating Honest Arthur, Coffey actually said at the hearings, "I think Mr...
...Foster won a year ago "against a weak opponent...
...The Secret Service agents, on the other hand, were unfailingly polite, helpful, and kind...
...Carol A. Arscott Ellicott City, MD Tucker Carlson's somewhat amusing but snide piece on the Dole bus trip through New Jersey contains a touch of "If it didn't happen, just make it up" reporting...
...He writes that I was: "fidgeting with a small instamatic camera . . . trying to Correspondence get a shot of Dole for the album back home, but Secret Service agents keep getting in the way...
...Once you get past "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty" (which may be a fabrication), Brock's endless, fully footnoted evidence is matched only by his openminded, reflective efforts to understand...
...Martin Anderson Portola Valley, CA Tucker Carlson responds: Point taken...
Vol. 2 • November 1996 • No. 8
