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| New York Governor Pataki Wins GOP Endorsement |
| 5/29/2002 8:51 PM |
Gov. George Pataki won unanimous support for a third term Wednesday from all 406 delegates at the state Republican convention. "New York is a better state than it was seven and a half years ago," Pataki told cheering delegates in an acceptance speech. He also touched on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, noting the huge loss of life and jobs. "But we gained something on Sept. 11," he said. "We gained a sense of unity." Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani attended a delegates' lunch and clearly the star of the show. While Giuliani had crossed party lines in 1994 to support Democrat Mario Cuomo in the governor's race, he had nothing but lavish praise for Pataki this time around.
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| Democrats Wary of Challenging Senator Warner |
| 5/29/2002 12:22 PM |
Mark R. Warner tried to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. John W. Warner in 1996, but today the Democratic governor heaped praise on his onetime opponent, saying the four-term incumbent appears unbeatable in the Nov. 5 election. "As we saw six years ago, running against John Warner is a tough challenge," said the governor, who spent more than $10 million of his own money in his unsuccessful bid to unseat the senator. "I think Senator Warner represents well Virginia and fights very, very hard on a number of critical issues." "No one has stepped forward that, I believe, is going to mount a credible campaign," Warner added during his monthly radio show on WTOP. Mark Warner, 47, is not related to John Warner, 75.
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| Hutchinson Poll Shows Him Ahead |
| 5/28/2002 6:15 PM |
On the heels of a convincing primary victory, Sen. Tim Hutchinson's (R) campaign has released a poll showing him with an 8-point lead over state AttorneyGeneral and Democratic nominee Mark Pryor. Hutchinson took 51 percent to 43 percent for Pryor in the survey, which was done by the Tarrance Group on May 13 and 14. The poll tested 600 likely voters and had a 4.1 percent margin of error. The poll was in the field the week before the Republican primary when Hutchinson had flooded the airwaves with television spots, which may have given him a slight bump. Hutchinson easily bested state Rep. Jim Bob Duggar (R) in last Tuesday's primary, 78 percent to 22 percent.
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| Friends in High Places |
| 5/28/2002 6:13 PM |
Washington money is pouring into Alabama's open 1st district race at an unprecedented rate as two former Hill chiefs of staff compete for the June 4 Republican nomination. A clash of high-profile connections is being played out between Tom Young (R), former chief of staff for Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), and Jo Bonner (R), ex-chief of staff for Rep. Sonny Callahan (R-Ala.), who is vacating the 1st district at the end of the 107th Congress. But those connections are also being used against the Hill insiders as they seek to capture the open seat. A number of other GOP candidates are running in this strongly Republican, Mobile-based district, including Baldwin County District Attorney David Whetstone and state Rep. Chris Pringle, both of whom are seen as strong candidates.
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| Social Security Memo Gives GOP Smoking Gun |
| 5/24/2002 12:54 PM |
Republicans have obtained a congressional staff memo they say proves that Democrats want to use Social Security for scare tactics, not serious debate. The memo, mistakenly sent by e-mail to a Republican staff member on Capitol Hill, contains an apparent draft opinion piece on Social Security and reaction from staffers in the office of Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Ohio Democrat. The memo argues that President Bush and Republicans want to "privatize" Social Security, which the author likens to "corporate gambling." But another Kaptur staff member responded that the information in the opinion piece was "not entirely factually accurate," adding: "Talk about scaring seniors -- this may be a little over the top. But it is sooo fun to bash Republicans." She included an e-mail "smiley face" -- :) -- after her comment. "This is exactly what Democratic leaders have been saying -- scaring seniors, lying, going over the top," said Rep. Thomas M. Davis III, Virginia Republican and chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), which made the e-mail public.
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| GOP Members Vie to Fill Largent's Void on the Mound |
| 5/23/2002 6:06 PM |
On the coldest spring training day in memory, members of the Republican baseball team turned out in droves Tuesday morning for the GOP's first practice of the year. Rep. Mike Oxley (Ohio), the Republicans' coach, said the practice was the coldest he remembers in two decades of involvement with the Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game. With temperatures dropping below 50 degrees, Oxley reminded the players more than once not to overdo it. But the competition to be the team's starting pitcher made it difficult for three Members, at least, to take it easy. First on the mound was Rep. Tom Davis (Va.), who hurled pitches to his fellow Republicans for 20 minutes before ceding the spot to Sen. John Ensign (Nev.). The final potential pitcher to try to impress Oxley was Rep. John Sweeney (N.Y.).
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| Gilmore's Job Hunt Continues |
| 5/23/2002 5:39 PM |
James S. Gilmore III enjoys most of the trappings of a former Virginia governor: the traditional "2" license plate for his recently acquired BMW; a busy schedule of speeches, commanding roughly $10,000 per appearance; and a fellowship at a Washington think tank that pays $90,000 for not much heavy lifting. But more than four months after leaving office, Gilmore is still searching for the post-politics reward that most of his modern predecessors found quickly -- a six-figure law firm partnership, say, or a second career as a globe-trotting dealmaker with seats on a slew of corporate boards.
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| Presidential Diplomacy, Ranch-House Style |
| 5/22/2002 11:23 PM |
Whether it is a shared choice of toothpaste, a fondness for fishing or the trials of teenage daughters, President Bush is always looking for a spark of human connection with other world leaders. "Good diplomacy really depends on good personal relations," he said shortly after his inauguration last year. Bush said he knew foreign leaders were nervous about having to deal with "some cowboy riding out of Texas," but he was confident he could "look them in the eye," and win them over with plain talk.
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| Pennsylvania Governor Race Follows Primary Theme |
| 5/22/2002 5:34 PM |
In many ways, the race for Pennsylvania governor between Democrat Edward Rendell and Republican Mike Fisher looks a lot like the primary campaign that Rendell just won. Fisher opposes abortion rights and gun control, just like Robert Casey Jr., who lost to Rendell in Tuesday's primary. Rendell supports both. Fisher, the state attorney general from Pittsburgh, also is likely to stir the state's east-west rivalries with Rendell, the former mayor of Philadelphia. That was tried by Casey. But unlike Casey, Fisher is expected to aggressively challenge Rendell in the Republican-dominated suburban counties, where the Democrat won four out of five votes in Tuesday's primary. And Fisher can count on a GOP machine that has put Republicans in control of all three branches of state government.
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| Bush Could Bring Latino Voters to GOP Congress Candidates |
| 5/22/2002 1:08 PM |
President Bush's support of Republican congressional candidates could win over Latino voters in November, according to a poll released Tuesday by the New Democrat Network (NDN). The NDN, comprised of members of both houses of Congress, actively selects and supports candidates for office. Sergio Bendixen, a Miami-based pollster, found that out of the 800 Hispanic voters polled, 38 percent said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate endorsed by Bush. And the numbers went up with voters who predominantly speak Spanish. All told, 45 percent said they would likely back a congressional candidate supported by the president. "Bush has succeeded in converting his public appeal into what I would call substantial political support" among Latinos, Bendixen said Tuesday at an NDN presentation. But, he and other NDN officials were quick to say that Democrats hold a 34-point lead with Latinos over Republicans, according to the poll.
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| Jenna Bush Shuns the Bright Lights |
| 5/22/2002 12:57 PM |
Jenna Bush, Secret Service code name "Twinkle," shunned the bright lights of her mother's 10-day European tour. In the three years since Jenna and twin sister Barbara, now 20, told their father they wanted nothing to do with his presidential campaign, neither girl has warmed to public life. "I would say probably NO," first lady Laura Bush said with a chuckle on Tuesday. "They just want to do like every other college junior," Mrs. Bush said. That much was obvious as Jenna, just finished with her sophomore year at the University of Texas at Austin, tagged along with her mother to Paris, Hungary and Czech Republic. "She doesn't want her picture in the paper, so she avoids the times that there are a lot of press," Mrs. Bush told White House reporters in her traveling entourage who had only glimpses of Jenna along the way.
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| GOP Sets Late August Convention Date |
| 5/21/2002 7:10 PM |
Republicans have set their 2004 national convention for the end of August, raising the possibility that both major parties could hold their nominating sessions at the same time. Marc Racicot, the Republican National Committee chairman, said that announcing the dates this far in advance will give cities that want to play host to the conventions more planning time. Democrats have not made a final decision on when they will hold their convention.
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| Davis On Shaky Ground In California |
| 5/21/2002 7:09 PM |
Gray Davis could lose. How could the Democratic governor of California blow a 14-point lead for his reelection bid in November? Because Bill Simon is running against him. That's right, the same Republican even the White House dissed as too right-wing turns out to be a more promising candidate than his reputation in Washington suggests. For starters, Simon is a warrior who already overcame a 30-point deficit to defeat President Bush's pick, Richard Riordan, for the Republican nomination. And this week he rolled out two middle-of-the-road heavy hitters as advisers to blunt his image of extremism: former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Secretary of State George Schultz.
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| Jeffords' Switch Slows Down GOP |
| 5/21/2002 2:48 PM |
James Jeffords of Vermont broke the Senate Republicans' china a year ago, smashed it in an act of political moderation, he says, that has Democrats celebrating and the GOP grieving still. Celebrating as in using majority power to check President Bush's agenda on taxes, energy and other issues while working to advance the Democrats' own plans. Grieving as in watching White House-backed bills clear the Republican-controlled House, then pile up at the Senate's doorstep. As in no longer being able to hasten the confirmation of judicial nominees. A "coup of one," Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott branded it after the soft-spoken Jeffords bolted his party, broke a 50-50 Senate tie and became an independent aligned with the Democrats. "The decision of one man has, however else you describe it, trumped the will of the American people," the Mississippi lawmaker said.
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| Giuliani Surprises By Endorsing Smith in New Hampshire |
| 5/19/2002 2:48 PM |
In an unexpected decision that left more questions than answers, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) waded into the hotly-contested New Hampshire Senate primary yesterday backing Sen. Bob Smith (R) over Rep. John Sununu. "The mayor feels very strongly that it is important to keep this seatRepublican," said Sunny Mindel, Giuliani's communications director. "That is why he endorsed the sitting incumbent." "It's important for Republicans to get behind which ever Republican wins the primary to hold the seat" in November, added Mindel, which suggests that the former mayor, whose popularity soared in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, would back Sununu if he claimed the Republican nod.
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| Pataki Faces Billionaire in Election |
| 5/19/2002 2:44 PM |
Gov. George Pataki faces opposition for the Independence Party nomination after a challenger won enough support at Saturday's party convention to force a primary. Billionaire businessman B. Thomas Golisano received 31.9 percent of the vote, exceeding the 25 percent he needed. Pataki, a Republican seeking his third term, got 67.2 percent of the vote, but will still need to win the Sept. 10 primary to appear on the Independence Party line in November.
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| Talk Radio, Top Volume On the Right |
| 5/8/2002 11:40 AM |
Rush and G. Gordon. Ollie and McLaughlin. Sean Hannity and Alan Keyes. Armstrong Williams and Pat Robertson. Michael Medved, Michael Reagan, Michael Savage, Michael Graham, Laura Ingraham. Sensing a pattern here? The biggest names in political-talk radio -- and increasingly, political-talk TV -- tend to run the ideological gamut from conservative to . . . very conservative. Liberals and moderates, it seems, can't or don't attract much of a crowd. As Bill Clinton ponders whether to launch his own talk show on NBC, broadcasters who've made their careers lambasting him continue to gobble up more of the airwaves. Today, for example, Bill O'Reilly, host of the most popular talk show on cable, Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," starts his own two-hour radio program on 205 stations -- the biggest debut ever, according to his syndicator, Westwood One.
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| Giuliani To Advise New York Firm |
| 5/7/2002 7:28 PM |
Rudolph W. Giuliani's already-glossy employment portfolio expanded again today, as the former New York mayor became chairman of the board of advisers of a private equity firm that invests in trade schools and other for-profit educational ventures. The firm, New York-based Leeds Weld Equity Partners, is run by William F. Weld, former Republican governor of Massachusetts, and Jeffrey T. Leeds, formerly an investment banker at Lazard Freres & Co. A source said the firm manages "hundreds of millions" of dollars. Leeds Weld already boasts an advisory board stocked with well-connected former politicians. They include Richard W. Riley, a two-term South Carolina governor who was secretary of education under President Bill Clinton; Lamar Alexander, two-term governor of Tennessee who was education secretary in the first Bush administration; and Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty III, Clinton's first-term chief of staff.
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| Left-Wing Conspiracy? DeLay Victimized by Video Trickery |
| 5/7/2002 7:26 PM |
House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas) has long complained of the media's liberal bias, a complaint that has often been dismissed. But in the wake of the controversy over comments he made recently at a church in Texas, it appears that DeLay's suspicion of the media may be justified. After DeLay caused a minor media frenzy earlier this month by telling congregants at the First Baptist Church of Pearland that Christianity was the only viable world view, KXII-TV, a CBS affiliate in Texas, aired footage of DeLay running through Houston's airport avoiding reporters as part of its story on the controversial comments. The problem was that the shots of DeLay scrambling through the terminal were taken almost four years ago, at the time of the Capitol shooting of two U.S. Capitol Police officers, when DeLay was rushing to respond to the emergency. The station's news team presented the old footage as part of the new story with the apparent intention of painting DeLay as some kind of fugitive from justice.
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| RNC Files Lawsuit to Overturn Campaign Finance Law |
| 5/7/2002 7:23 PM |
The Republican National Committee, which counts on unlimited "soft money" donations to run political campaigns, filed suit on Tuesday to overturn the ban on such donations, signed into law in March by President Bush. The campaign finance reform law is being challenged by several groups, who say the ban is a violation of free speech rights for political groups like the RNC and the Democratic National Committee, which also relies on the large-size checks unabashedly collected from corporations, unions and others. The National Rifle Association, the AFL-CIO, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Broadcasters and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have all filed suit charging the new law's restrictions on political ads during election periods is unconstitutional, as is the ban on soft money used to pay for overhead, issue ads and generic get-out-the-vote activities. "When Republicans face unconstitutional obstructions of political activity, the RNC is obligated to protect and defend the equal access of all Americans to engage in protected political speech," RNC Chairman Marc Racicot said in a written statement.
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| Presidential Podium Labeled Surplus |
| 5/7/2002 7:21 PM |
The podium President Bush used while addressing the nation after the Sept. 11 terror attacks was mistakenly sold as surplus property for $75 to a high school in rural Arkansas.
The podium will be retrieved by the government this week for display at the military base where Bush spoke, officials said. "We're such a small school to have something like that," said Kirbi Fletcher, the Arkansas City High School valedictorian, before giving her speech behind the podium Monday night at commencement for the school's nine graduates. The podium had been mothballed with other furniture at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, La., officials said. The Air Force donated the furniture to the Arkansas Federal Surplus Property program, which sold the podium to the school district in Arkansas City, pop. 500.
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| Some Bush Aides Signed on Young |
| 5/6/2002 9:20 AM |
When George W. Bush got the itch to run for Texas governor, 22-year-old Israel Hernandez was the first guy he hired -- to tote his bags, keep his Sharpie pen and dole out a steady supply of Altoid mints. Another 22-year-old, Dan Bartlett, signed on a short time later. He soon found himself tracking down a justice of the peace to pay Bush's $130 fine when the future governor mistakenly shot a protected songbird during a much-watched dove hunt. Nine years later, Hernandez and Bartlett are still working for Bush -- and in increasingly important roles -- making them simultaneously Texas old-timers and White House whiz kids
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| Republicans Unveil TV Show in Spanish |
| 5/6/2002 9:18 AM |
Republicans are stepping up their drive for Hispanic support -- considered crucial to GOP success in upcoming elections -- by introducing a Spanish-language television program on public affairs. Republican National Chairman Marc Racicot planned to announce details Monday of the latest GOP venture to improve the party's appeal in the fast-growing Hispanic community. The title of the new show will be "Abriendo Caminos," Spanish for "opening paths." '"Abriendo Caminos' is an opportunity to communicate directly with the Hispanic community," Racicot said, adding it is important that the Republican agenda "reach every community across America."
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| Elizabeth Dole Avoids Foes, Media |
| 5/6/2002 9:17 AM |
She has rarely appeared in the same room with her opponents and typically takes no more than a question or two from reporters before rushing to her next campaign stop. Critics complain that Republican Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole is using her celebrity status to keep her little-known opposition and the media at bay until the GOP primary. Political analysts said that's a well-tested and usually successful strategy for candidates with a wide advantage in fund raising and the polls. But some think it may backfire as Dole's opponents and even some party regulars rail against her elusiveness. Dole said she isn't avoiding anyone or any issue, running off a litany of stands she has taken on the economy, job creation, education, farming and improving military readiness.
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| Mr. President, Meet the Prince of Darkness: Bush Mingles with D.C. Insiders and Outsiders, Including Ozzy Osbourne |
| 5/5/2002 4:47 PM |
President Bush gave Washington reporters a look at "what life is really like inside the Bush White House" on Saturday, showing off his collection of "actual, never-seen-before photos." One of the good things about life in the mansion is that his wife, Laura, is always on hand to help him out, he said. Bush displayed a photograph of the first lady standing with her hands on each side of his face.
"Here she is helping me pronounce 'Azerbaijani'," said Bush, who is known to sometimes stumble over long words. Bush and top members of his administration mingled and shared laughs with reporters and other Washington insiders at the annual White House Correspondents dinner. Comedian Drew Carey was on hand to provide the entertainment during the more than three-hour event, doing standup comedy for the president and more than 1,800 guests, including top White House adviser Karl Rove and rock star Ozzy Osbourne.
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| GOP versus GOP in New Hampshire |
| 5/5/2002 4:43 PM |
New Hampshire's state Republican party has criticized a local GOP organization that publicly urged U.S. Rep. John Sununu to drop his primary challenge of incumbent U.S. Sen. Bob Smith. "It was inappropriate for the local committee as a whole to get involved in the primary," said Julie Teer, state Republican party spokeswoman. "Everybody understands that at any level, as a whole, we don't engage in primaries." This week, the GOP committee in Mount Washington Valley, in the northern part of the state, released an open letter to Sununu, who holds one of New Hampshire's two seats in the House, calling for him to drop his bid to unseat Smith, a three-term Republican senator, in the state's September primary.
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| Davis Contributes to Democrat Ex-hopeful |
| 5/5/2002 4:41 PM |
In a move likely to raise eyebrows among House Republicans, a political action committee (PAC) controlled by the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee has contributed $3,000 to a former Democratic House candidate in Arkansas. Fundraising reports revealed that Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia contributed $3,000 last Dec. 16 to Judy Smith, who lost to then-Rep. Jay Dickey (R) in 1998. She ran again in the 2000 primary against then-state Sen. Mike Ross (D), who went on to defeat Dickey in the general election.
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| The Queen Mother |
| 5/5/2002 4:36 PM |
Mother's Day is coming, and if you know what's good for you the Hallmark card is already in the mail. That is, unless your mother is Barbara Bush. The First Family has an unusual way of celebrating the hallowed American holiday. They put their heads down and hope it passes with as little fanfare as possible. George Herbert Walker Bush chafed when a NEWSWEEK reporter recently raised the idea of a Mother's Day article about his wife. "I wouldn't emphasize it if I were you," the former president warned. "She thinks it's gotten way too commercial."
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| GOP Leaders Spurn Right in Key Races |
| 5/2/2002 11:30 PM |
GOP congressional leaders are supporting moderates and shunning more conservative Senate candidates in several primaries, to the dismay of conservative activists in swing states that may decide which party controls the Senate. The key is electability. The party leaders believe that moderate Republicans have a better chance of defeating Democratic opponents than some candidates who support such conservative causes as banning abortion and opposing gun control and stem cell research. Consequently, some Republican congressional leaders have thrown their support to candidates in Iowa, Tennessee, Maine and North Carolina who have weak records on these "bread and butter" issues in the minds of conservatives. But the strategy may backfire as it has alienated conservative activists who form the backbone of the party's grassroots structure in those states. If they fail to support GOP candidates in the general election, it could derail Republican efforts to regain control of the Senate.
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| Nickles, Lott Target Races |
| 5/2/2002 4:38 PM |
Even as they deny a head-to-head battle is in store, Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and Minority Whip Don Nickles (R-Okla.) have both ratcheted up their fundraising with the common short-term goal of restoring a GOP majority.
The long-term question of who would lead a Republican majority in the chamber has, for now, been set aside publicly, but Lott and Nickles are aggressively raising money for Senate challengers and open-seat candidates, often matching one another event for event. Take the campaign of Rep. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), seeking to replace retiring GOP Sen. Strom Thurmond. Last summer, Nickles hosted a small fundraising event for Graham in Washington, D.C., with the Whip's political aides raising around $65,000 for the aspiring Senator. Lott has also attended a fundraising event in D.C. for Graham.
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