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| Ashcroft, GOP Target Carnahan on Education |
| 8/31/2000 9:48 PM |
Reflecting the importance of education in voters' minds, Sen. John Ashcroft and the state GOP are airing ads that focus on the topic while hammering at Gov. Mel Carnahan.
The attacks are aimed, in part, at knocking Carnahan's credibility on education, an issue that he has emphasized during his two terms as governor. Carnahan also has strong support from Missouri teachers groups, who have long been critical of Ashcroft.
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| Bush Claims Upper Hand on Education |
| 8/31/2000 9:40 PM |
For more than a year, George W. Bush has brought his campaign to schools across the country pounding his message that he is "a different kind of Republican."
This week, Bush campaign began heralding the fact that today in Ohio he would visit his 100th school since July of last year. Asked by a reporter today to expound the significance of this political accomplishment, Bush quipped: "It's a nice round number."
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| RNC Ad Targets Gore Fund-Raising |
| 8/31/2000 9:40 PM |
The Republican National Committee will launch a double whammy ad on Friday attacking Vice President Gore for meeting with donors at a Buddhist temple and overstating his role in the creation of the Internet.
The 30-second ad is to air in 17 battleground states in the presidential race, just in time to reach viewers who will be on Labor Day weekend, a traditional benchmark for political campaigns. The ad hits Gore on two of his most vulnerable issues, suggesting the GOP is concerned about the barrage of bad news that has hit Texas Gov. George W. Bush in the past week.
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| Woman Who Questioned Gore Now Faces IRS Inquiry |
| 8/30/2000 11:33 PM |
The woman who sharply questioned Vice President Al Gore at a town-hall meeting about Juanita Broaddrick's rape accusation against President Clinton has become the subject of an inquiry by the Internal Revenue Service.
"I find it very suspicious," said Katherine Prudhomme, who subjected Mr. Gore to several long, uncomfortable minutes of questioning about the Broaddrick case in December. "I feel like I'm being harassed."
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| Bush Team Meets on Debate Offers |
| 8/30/2000 11:18 PM |
A team of advisers to George W. Bush began making the rounds Wednesday with television networks and other organizations that have extended invitations for presidential debates.
Ari Fleischer, a spokesman for the Republican presidential nominee, said the team met with CNN, ABC and CBS. They will hold similar meetings Thursday and meet Friday with officials of the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, he said.
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| Bush Twins Head To College |
| 8/30/2000 11:17 PM |
One of Gov. George W. Bush's twin daughters started classes Wednesday at the University of Texas, nearly 1,600 miles from Yale University, where her sister begins her studies next week.
Jenna Bush was one of about 7,500 freshmen at Texas, one of the nation's largest state universities. Her sister, Barbara, will be part of a smaller class of 1,352 entering Yale in New Haven, Conn., where classes start Sept. 6. Freshmen begin moving into their dormitories on Friday.
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| Cheney Steps Up Criticism of Military Readiness |
| 8/30/2000 11:14 PM |
Former defense secretary Richard B. Cheney, the Republican vice presidential nominee, intensified the GOP attack on the administration's leadership of the U.S. military today, lamenting "eight years of neglect and misplaced priorities."
Cheney and presidential nominee George W. Bush have been locked in a back-and-forth with administration and Pentagon officials in recent days over whether U.S. forces are sufficiently equipped, trained and ready to fight. The Republican ticket got support in that fight today from retired Gen. Colin L. Powell, a prominent Bush backer, who said in an interview that "our troops are great" but that President Clinton has allowed investments in the future of the military to dwindle perilously.
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| Bush Hitting Harder on Education |
| 8/30/2000 11:13 PM |
George W. Bush today ratcheted up his efforts to convince voters that he is the leader who will bring change to the nation's failing education system, repeatedly accusing his Democratic opponent of overseeing "seven years of stagnancy" in schools and doing nothing to reduce the "achievement gap" between minority and white students.
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| Clinton: Disbarment Is Too Harsh |
| 8/29/2000 7:45 PM |
President Clinton said Tuesday he should not be disbarred over his testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, telling a state judge that losing his law license is too harsh a penalty.
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| Cheney Says He's 'Man of Few Words' |
| 8/29/2000 7:43 PM |
Dick Cheney says he's a "man of few words" who prefers low-key campaign events without a lot of hoopla, unlike his Democratic rival.
"It's sort of in keeping with my quiet, low-key demeanor," the Republican vice presidential candidate said Tuesday after brief remarks to a Christian athletic group. "I come from the West, a man of few words."
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| Amid the Issues, Bush's Equalizer to 'The Kiss' |
| 8/29/2000 7:42 PM |
There is talk this morning of prescription drugs, education, the role of religion in politics and the inevitable, excruciatingly boring, debate over debates.
But the most eye-catching moment -- indeed, one that seems to shout "I'm no Bill Clinton" -- comes in the opening anecdote of a piece about George W. Bush's role in his father's 1988 presidential campaign.
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| Group Thankful for Cheney Endorsement |
| 8/29/2000 7:39 PM |
The executive vice president of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes said today he was grateful that Republican vice presidential hopeful Dick Cheney chose the FCA's national headquarters for his speech on teaching character in schools.
"For us, it's a clear recognition of the impact that we are having," Kevin Harlan said. "I think he sees FCA as a key faith-based organization for instilling character in the lives of students."
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| Bush Stresses His Proposal for Helping Families Pay Tuition |
| 8/29/2000 7:38 PM |
Gov. George W. Bush put education on center stage Monday, announcing a national education coalition and pointing to his proposal to expand savings accounts to help parents who send their children to private or parochial schools.
That plan, the GOP presidential nominee said in an expansive interview in the governor's mansion, could help middle-class St. Louis families make choices of where best to send their children. Bush proposes to allow families to put up to $5,000 a year into tax-free education accounts. The money would be used to help pay tuition. Now, federal education accounts can only be used for college. Bush would expand it to kindergarten through 12th grade.
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| Lazio Reveals Income Tax Records |
| 8/28/2000 11:01 PM |
After months of prodding by journalists and his Democratic opponent, Rep. Rick Lazio on Monday gave reporters access to his tax returns from the past decade.
The congressman and his wife, Patricia, who works part-time as a nurse, made about $150,000 in 1999. At first glance, the federal and state tax returns dating back to 1990 didn't appear to contain anything unusual.
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| GOP Gives $6 Million to Battleground States |
| 8/28/2000 10:59 PM |
Republican Party officials last month pumped $6.1 million into nine states, providing an early road map of where they plan to compete this fall.
The list includes Pennsylvania and the Midwestern states where the contest between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore is likely to be decided -- Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. Also on the list are three West Coast states that have leaned Democratic in recent elections -- California, Oregon and Washington.
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| Bush, Gore Tied in Two New Polls |
| 8/28/2000 10:59 PM |
Al Gore and George W. Bush are locked in a dead heat in two new presidential polls, evidence that Gore is holding his post-convention poll bounce and could make it a close race in the coming weeks.
The CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll of likely voters showed Republican Bush at 46 percent, Democrat Gore at 45 percent, Green Party candidate Ralph Nader at 3 percent and Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan at 1 percent. A poll by ICR of Media, Pa. showed Gore at 44 percent and Bush at 41 percent among registered voters.
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| House GOP Urges $1 Minimum Wage Hike |
| 8/28/2000 10:58 PM |
House Speaker Dennis Hastert offered Monday to push legislation boosting the minimum wage by $1 over two years without making the increase contingent on two key tax cuts that drew objections from President Clinton. Democrats expressed cautious optimism that a deal could be struck.
Hastert, R-Ill., said in a letter to the president that Republicans still wanted a $76 billion package of business tax breaks to accompany the wage measure but would remove proposals to abolish the estate tax and to change pension laws, including increased contribution limits for 401(k) plans. Both are subjects of separate bills.
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| Bush Sticking to Education Message |
| 8/28/2000 10:57 PM |
George W. Bush pressed ahead with his education reform message on Monday, resisting rival Al Gore's efforts to knock him off-balance again. "What I've got to do is continue to draw distinctions about where we differ," Bush said.
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| Scores Improve for D.C. Pupils With Vouchers |
| 8/28/2000 1:09 PM |
African American students in the District and two other cities have moved ahead of their public school classmates since they transferred to private schools with the help of vouchers, according to a new study.
The report, which compares the students' reading and math scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills over the first two years of the voucher programs, is unusual. It compares public and private school students who have similar motivations and family backgrounds. This was possible because voucher awards in the three cities were made by lottery. Researchers, then, were able to compare students who won vouchers with students who did not win them but wanted them, demonstrating similar motivations.
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| GOPer: Tax Veto Can Be Overridden |
| 8/27/2000 11:15 PM |
A Republican congressman appealed to fellow legislators Saturday for bipartisan cooperation to overturn President Clinton's expected veto of legislation to eliminate the inheritance tax.
"Democrats and Republicans alike know that the death tax is unfair to family farmers and unfair to small businesspeople of every kind," Rep. Jay Dickey, R-Ark., said in the Republicans' weekly radio address.
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| Cheney Defends Attacks on Military Readiness |
| 8/27/2000 11:13 PM |
Republican vice presidential nominee Richard B. Cheney yesterday defended attacks on the Clinton administration's record on military preparedness, insisting that defense forces have steadily eroded the past eight years even while conceding that at least one recent criticism may not be valid.
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| Clear Contrasts Mark Ashcroft, Carnahan Race |
| 8/27/2000 11:11 PM |
They both offer voters a clear choice. Such as:
Ashcroft supports cutting taxes for all taxpayers. Carnahan favors targeting the cuts.
Carnahan opposes school vouchers. Ashcroft calls for leaving it up to the states.
Ashcroft is anti-abortion. Carnahan favors abortion rights.
Carnahan supports a "patients' bill of rights" that allows suits against health maintenance organizations, with no limits on the size of court-awarded damages. Ashcroft would require that an independent physician review any denial of care before any suits could be filed, and he would limit punitive damages.
Ashcroft campaigned for last year's concealed-weapons initiative. Carnahan led the fight against it.
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| Same Judges to Hear Second Missouri Tobacco Case |
| 8/23/2000 11:19 PM |
The same five state judges who were appointed acting Missouri Supreme Court judges to consider a bid by several parties to enter the state's multibillion-dollar settlement with tobacco companies will hear another tobacco-related case.
The judges will hear oral arguments in a case filed by Sen. Peter Kinder, R-Cape Girardeau, challenging the state's contract with private attorneys who worked on Missouri's lawsuit against the tobacco industry. The court agreed to hear the case last week.
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| GOP Covets California, Cheney Insists |
| 8/23/2000 11:13 PM |
Setting out on his first West Coast campaign swing, Dick Cheney, the Republican vice presidential nominee, sought Tuesday to ward off concerns in his party that George W. Bush will mount anything less than an all-out fight to win California.
"California is very important to us, or I wouldn't be here today," Cheney said during a campaign stop at a school on the edge of San Bernardino County.
Cheney's remarks came a day after Bush, the Republicans' presidential nominee, launched his biggest such advertising campaign so far in 21 states; California was not among them.
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| Bush Raising Funds at Seven Times Gore's Rate |
| 8/22/2000 11:19 PM |
Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush raised seven times more money than Democrat Al Gore in July, according to monthly filings with the Federal Elections Commission.
While Gore raised $771,000 from individuals, Bush reported receipts of $5.4 million, including contributions from political action committees, the filings, released Sunday, showed. Bush was free to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money, while Gore was bound by spending limits he accepted in return for $15.3 million in federal matching funds.
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| The Debate Over Debates Is On |
| 8/22/2000 11:17 PM |
Participants call it an exercise in frustration, bluffing, conniving, outright bickering and unintended hilarity. They fight over the pickiest details, like what the audience should wear. Few debates in the long presidential campaign season are as intense as the ones leading up to the debates themselves.
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| Cheney: School Standards Needed |
| 8/22/2000 11:14 PM |
Republican vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney said Tuesday the country needs high standards in schools and that government must ensure they have enough money.
"It's a soft form of discrimination, if you will, to set low standards for kids," he told teachers, administrators and local politicians after an education forum in the library of Kingsbury Elementary School, which he toured with his wife Lynne. "We need high standards and high expectations."
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| Bush Blasts Clinton Policy On Military |
| 8/22/2000 11:13 PM |
Texas Gov. George W. Bush issued a strong indictment today of the Clinton administration's military policy, warning of its "long neglect" of soldiers and "a military in decline"--an assessment that drew an unusually swift and pointed response from the secretary of defense.
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| Bush Stresses Education in Visit to St. Louis School |
| 8/22/2000 11:12 PM |
Texas Gov. George W. Bush visited one of the St. Louis area's top performing schools Tuesday to emphasize that education is his top issue in his bid for the White House - and that his results in Texas prove his commitment.
Reading is "the most important subject there is, as far as I'm concerned," Bush told educators, students and Republican supporters during his two-hour visit to Wild Horse Elementary School in Chesterfield.
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| Clinton, Lazio Square Off in Western New York |
| 8/21/2000 10:24 PM |
The candidates vying to be the next U.S. Senator from New York campaigned for votes Sunday in an upstate county likely to be critical to their success.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democrat trying to claim the seat being vacated by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and U.S. Rep. Rick Lazio both attended festivities at the Polish American Arts Festival in this Buffalo suburb in Erie County.
Come November, the friends each made out of the tens of thousands who attended could become crucial votes, especially for Republican Lazio, county politicians said.
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| McCain Declared Cancer-Free |
| 8/21/2000 10:19 PM |
Tests on lymph nodes and tissue removed during Sen. John McCain's skin cancer surgery confirmed that his skin cancer didn't spread, his office announced Monday as McCain went home from the hospital.
The former GOP presidential candidate underwent more than five hours of surgery on Saturday to remove melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, from his temple and upper arm.
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| Rocker Nugent, Rep. Barr Team Up |
| 8/21/2000 10:19 PM |
On the surface, they seem like an odd pair -- conservative Rep. Bob Barr and long-haired rocker Ted Nugent.
But Barr and Nugent are both board members of the National Rifle Association and outspoken defenders of the right to bear arms.
Nugent made his point as loudly as one of his guitar solos Sunday during a fund-raiser for Barr.
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| Bush: Next President Gets Pinched Military |
| 8/21/2000 10:14 PM |
George W. Bush accused President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore on Monday of presiding over a two-term slide in Pentagon morale and resources. "The next president will inherit a military in decline," he told a veterans' convention.
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| Bush Pledges Military Spending at Veterans Convention |
| 8/21/2000 10:13 PM |
Texas Gov. George W. Bush went before a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention today to pledge $1.3 billion for military pay raises and improvements to schools for military dependents.
"Even the highest morale is eventually undermined by back-to-back deployments, poor pay, shortages of spare parts and equipment and rapidly declining readiness," Bush said in prepared remarks. "A volunteer military has only two paths. It can lower its standards to fill its ranks. Or it can inspire the best and brightest to join and stay.
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| Leaking Judge Says He Didn't Mean to Disrupt Convention |
| 8/21/2000 8:56 AM |
Richard Cudahy, accidental man in the middle of the latest political firestorm, doesn't act or sound like someone singed from the glare of limelight.
"I'm still breathing," said Cudahy, a federal appeals court judge in Chicago, in a telephone interview from his Winnetka, Ill., home on Saturday, where he picked up the phone between errands.
Cudahy inadvertently dropped a political bombshell on Thursday when he mentioned to an Associated Press reporter that a new grand jury had been impaneled by the independent counsel investigating President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
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| McCain Hopes To Return to Campaign |
| 8/20/2000 11:10 PM |
If John McCain could have his way, he'd blaze through his recovery from skin cancer surgery and return to campaigning for the Republican Party as soon as possible.
"Obviously Sen. McCain would like to get back to the campaign trail tomorrow, but it depends on his recovery time," McCain spokeswoman Nancy Ives said Sunday.
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| Bush Promotes Education Proposals |
| 8/20/2000 11:08 PM |
George W. Bush is sharpening his attacks on rival Al Gore with an advertising blitz that focuses on education and begins airing Monday in 21 competitive states.
Timed largely to coincide with visits by Bush or running mate Dick Cheney before Labor Day, the ads stick to Bush's convention speech pledge to "teach all our children to read and renew the promise of America's public schools."
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| Poll: Gore, Bush Tied |
| 8/20/2000 11:08 PM |
Al Gore and George W. Bush were tied in a poll of likely voters Sunday as aides for both candidates heated up the dialogue on the air waves over presidential debates.
"We are going to participate in a record number of five presidential and vice presidential debates," Bush communications director Karen Hughes said on "Fox News Sunday." She was referring to a recent campaign proposal that the presidential candidates debate three times and the vice presidential candidates debate twice.
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| Murky Future for Legislature in Wake of State's Primaries |
| 8/20/2000 11:04 PM |
An exodus of Missouri lawmakers has opened the door for a major shift of power in the Statehouse, where Democrats have ruled for half a century but cling to narrow majorities heading into the fall elections.
Members of the House and Senate, with voter-approved term limits looming, saw the opportunity to call it quits or seek higher office, which has both major political parties pondering a complex set of eventualities that could lead to a fractured Legislature.
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| Missouri Attorney General Candidates Cite 'Experience' |
| 8/20/2000 11:02 PM |
Both the incumbent and his main challenger said Saturday that "experience" is the key to being Missouri's attorney general.
Addressing Missouri Farm Bureau's 2000 Leadership Conference on Saturday morning, incumbent Jay Nixon, a Democrat, and Republican Sam Jones said they have the right experience for the job and talked about their relationships with the farm group and its key issues.
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| Bush, Gore Confront Decisions |
| 8/17/2000 11:35 PM |
As the last confetti falls on the political conventions, Al Gore and George W. Bush now confront a series of critical decisions about ads, issues and electoral map strategies to set the course for their fall campaign.
Their nominations settled, both candidates get $67.6 million in federal money for the fall campaign. They will start spending the money on TV ads as early as next week. In addition, the Democratic and Republican parties %u2013 as well as outside interest groups %u2013 plan to spend tens of millions of dollars on ads, mostly negative.
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| E-Mail Searches Skip Private Clinton, Gore Accounts |
| 8/17/2000 11:33 PM |
President Clinton, Vice President Gore and their wives have had private electronic mail accounts under pseudonyms since the administration took office nearly eight years ago, but the accounts have not been searched despite a court-ordered investigation of computerized messages, a White House computer consultant testified in federal court this week.
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| McCain Is Scheduled For Cancer Surgery |
| 8/17/2000 11:31 PM |
Doctors ran a series of tests today on John McCain to determine the seriousness of his skin cancer and scheduled surgery for Saturday, although a final decision on how to treat the melanoma has not been made, a Republican official said.
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| White House Travel Bill: $292 Million |
| 8/17/2000 11:31 PM |
As President Clinton prepares to leave for Nigeria and Tanzania next week, a new government report shows that 159 foreign trips he and other administration officials took since 1997 have cost taxpayers at least $292 million.
The General Accounting Office review of administration air transport expenses was requested by six Republican senators. One of them, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), called the costs "exorbitant." His colleagues declined comment until the report, obtained by The Washington Post, is made public.
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| Analysis: Uphill Battle for Gore |
| 8/17/2000 11:29 PM |
The path that might carry Vice President Gore all the way from Thursday night's Staples Center acceptance speech to the inaugural platform in Washington next January is strewn with the same obstacles that his rival, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, must surmount. But Gore has much less room for error, as other Democrats see it. He really has to thread the needle to win.
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| Nader Could Cost Gore Five States |
| 8/16/2000 11:21 PM |
Ralph Nader, running for president as the Green Party candidate, is actually jeopardizing the environment by threatening Al Gore's chances, Gore supporters said Wednesday.
''His candidacy poses a high threat to the environment in this country'' because it could ensure the election of Republican George W. Bush, said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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| John McCain Diagnosed With Melanoma |
| 8/16/2000 11:17 PM |
Arizona Sen. John McCain has been diagnosed with a second bout of melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, and expects to undergo surgery, aides said Wednesday. He immediately curtailed his campaigning for Republicans.
"During a routine examination, two unrelated spots were discovered on Senator John McCain. One on his left temple, the other on his left arm. The spots were confirmed to be melanomas," said a statement issued Wednesday by his office.
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| Feeding the Hands that Bite Them |
| 8/16/2000 11:12 PM |
On the campaign trail this year, Democrats are regularly assailing drug companies, cigarette makers and the gun lobby. Here at their national convention, they are eating their eggs Benedict.
With little fanfare from the party or its underwriters, the industries that Democrats love to bash in public are privately paying for a sun-up to sun-down smorgasbord of events for Democratic delegates and lawmakers.
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| Census Bureau Sponsors DNC Event |
| 8/15/2000 11:15 PM |
The U.S. Census Bureau allowed its name and logo to be used for sponsorship and sent three workers to an event at the Democratic convention designed to mobilize black voters in the fall election.
The federal agency said Tuesday it made no contribution to the "Advocacy in the Next Millenium" symposium Saturday hosted by Black Entertainment Television talk show host Tavis Smiley, a prominent Democrat.
Officials said they considered the event, held on the eve of the convention's opening, a routine opportunity to share census data and answer questions and regretted any appearance they were supporting the Democratic Party.
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| Left Coast Confidential |
| 8/15/2000 11:13 PM |
For Hollywood, the Democrats were always a welcome diversion, a rousing, right-thinking party where the rich got to rub their social consciences up against the bellies of the powerful.
But now Hollywood Democrats are out of sorts, a Left in the lurch. Free trade is the reigning mantra. Welfare reform is a done deal and the era of big government is long, long gone.
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| Ashcroft Urges Carnahan to Return Donation from Hefner |
| 8/15/2000 11:09 PM |
Sen. John Ashcroft's campaign called on Gov. Mel Carnahan on Monday to return $2,000 in political donations that Carnahan received in June from the chief executive of Playboy magazine, Christie Hefner.
The Republican senator's challenge, issued by his St. Louis campaign office, followed a California congresswoman's cancellation of a fund-raiser at the Playboy Mansion under pressure from Democratic National Convention officials.
"Mel Carnahan should stand with Al Gore and distance himself from the low morals of the pornography industry and return the $2,000 he received from the makers of Playboy who profit by exploiting women," said David James, Ashcroft's spokesman.
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| GOP Files Complaint Over Holden Campaign Contribution Records |
| 8/15/2000 11:06 PM |
The Missouri Republican Party has filed a complaint against Bob Holden, the Democratic nominee for governor, for failing to disclose information about 61 donors over the past four years.
The complaint filed Monday with the Missouri Ethics Commission claims Holden failed to report the employers or occupations of donors who gave more than $170,000 since 1996, when he was re-elected to the state treasurer's post.
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| Gore trails Bush by 16 Points |
| 8/14/2000 10:33 PM |
Al Gore trails Republican presidential rival George W. Bush 55%-39% in the latest USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll and appears to be struggling to emerge from the shadow of President Clinton as the Democratic convention opens Monday.
In the poll conducted over the weekend, 68% rated Bill Clinton's presidency a success, although 73% said that he will mostly be remembered for the Monica Lewinsky scandal. However, Clinton's popularity does not appear to be rubbing off on his vice president.
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| Jesse Jackson Calls GOP 'Wolf in Sheep's Clothing' |
| 8/14/2000 10:29 PM |
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said Monday he believed many African-Americans would support Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore and called the Republicans "wolves in sheeps' clothing" with no real commitment to diversity.
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| Bush To Lie Low for Democrat Convention |
| 8/13/2000 10:41 PM |
Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush suspended active campaigning on Sunday to lie low for the Democratic National Convention. He said he may not watch or listen to it.
"I already know what they're going to say about me. They've been saying it for the past six months. It's predictable," Bush told reporters as he and former rival Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., parted company.
After spending the night at McCain's ranch here, Bush and wife Laura headed back to Texas. They were to spend the next four days relaxing on their 1,500-acre ranch near Waco.
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| Bush Names Frist as Senate Liason |
| 8/10/2000 9:46 PM |
George W. Bush's presidential campaign on Thursday named Sen. Bill Frist as its liaison with the Senate.
It is the latest honor bestowed on the Tennesseean within the GOP. Frist played a key role in last week's Republican convention, delivering a health care speech on the same night that Bush accepted his nomination as the party's presidential candidate.
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| Bush, McCain Join Campaign Forces |
| 8/10/2000 5:53 PM |
George W. Bush and the man he beat for the GOP presidential nomination joined campaign forces on Thursday with John McCain declaring himself "proud to be part of this crusade."
The Arizona senator urged his independent supporters to look at Bush now, but said he can't tell them how to vote.
"All I can do really is ask independents to look at Governor Bush," he said at a joint news conference. "Independents are independents because they are independent."
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| Ford Leaving Hospital, Heading to California |
| 8/9/2000 12:35 AM |
Former President Gerald Ford, who needed surgery to drain an abscess in his tongue, will be released on Wednesday morning from Hahnemann University Hospital after several days recuperation, the hospital said.
Ford, who will be accompanied by his wife Betty and daughter Susan, will immediately head for Palm Springs, California, the hospital said.
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| No Opposition to Santorum, Hutchison |
| 8/9/2000 12:34 AM |
With the encouragement of the Senate's top Republican, two senators appear ready to stroll into leadership jobs with no opposition.
Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania is running for chairman of the Republican Conference, the No. 3 leadership spot, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas is running for conference secretary, the No. 4 position.
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| Holden, Talent Set to Wage Most Expensive Gubernatorial Campaign in Missouri |
| 8/9/2000 12:25 AM |
Now the race for governor begins.
After months of testing the waters with ads designed to introduce them to voters statewide, Jim Talent. a St. Louis County Republican, and Bob Holden, a Springfield Democrat, are set to wage the most expensive gubernatorial campaign in Missouri history.
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| Bush Has 17-Point Gallup Poll Lead |
| 8/6/2000 11:35 PM |
George W. Bush has a 17-point post-convention lead over Al Gore among likely voters in the CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll released Sunday, the same lead Democrat Michael Dukakis had in that poll after his convention in 1988.
George W. Bush had 54 percent in the poll taken Friday and Saturday and Gore had 37 percent. Green Party candidate Ralph Nader was at 4 percent and Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan was at 1 percent. A Gallup poll taken just before the GOP convention had Bush ahead by 11 points.
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| GOP Makes Turnout a $100 Million Priority |
| 8/6/2000 11:34 PM |
Republicans are launching a $100 million campaign that will dwarf the spending of presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore in an effort to get wavering or indifferent voters to actually go to the polls in November.
Under the Victory 2000 label, a special division of the Republican National Committee and state Republican parties will target wavering citizens -- over the air, on the phone, in the mail and on doorsteps -- in hopes of boosting turnout among those who seem most likely to come down on the side of Bush and other GOP candidates, up and down the ticket.
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| Young Republicans Think Their Peers Liked What They Saw Last Week |
| 8/6/2000 11:29 PM |
Veteran GOP delegate Al Rotskoff of St. Louis says both major parties have a vested interest in seeking young supporters and voters.
"Both parties have the same problem," he said, scanning a convention-reception crowd during last week's Republican gathering. "All of our good members are in nursing homes or cemeteries.
But members of Missouri's Young Republicans who traveled to the convention are optimistic that their party's visual and vocal messages were just the ticket to attract those under age 35. Percentage-wise, that age group has roughly half the voter turnout of the over-65 crowd, according to various turnout studies.
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| Congressman Blunt Goes to Head of the Class of Missouri's GOP delegation |
| 8/6/2000 11:27 PM |
Sen. John Ashcroft spent only about 30 hours in Philadelphia, shaking a few hands, mingling with a few donors, singing a few songs (as part of the Singing Senators).
Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond flitted from the convention floor to reception halls. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau, was a convention floor fixture, enthusiastically standing barefoot on her seat to dance and chant Bush-Cheney slogans. Then there was Rep. Kenny Hulshof, the only Missouri member of Congress to stay in the New Jersey hotel housing the Missouri delegation. On the floor, he usually carried his 9-month-old daughter, Casey, who became a convention poster child - she made more front pages than some politicians.
And that includes the man who was arguably Missouri's most visible and sought-after officeholder at the GOP convention: Rep. Roy Blunt, southwest Missouri's Republican congressman and chief deputy whip in the U.S. House.
As George W. Bush's congressional liaison, Blunt's convention days were filled. Blunt estimates he had at least 20 commitments each day.
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| Bond Brings Experience, Energy to Bush's State Campaign |
| 8/3/2000 11:48 PM |
Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond is tossing a little cold water on giddy Republicans who are gushing over George W. Bush's lead over Al Gore in many presidential polls.
"I like confidence, but I don't like overconfidence," said Bond, Bush's Missouri campaign chairman, as he scanned a reception room filled with optimistic Republicans. "Some people appear overconfident to me.
"Just because you look good in the polls doesn't guarantee a victory."
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| Text of Bush's Acceptance Speech |
| 8/3/2000 11:47 PM |
Text of George W. Bush's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday in Philadelphia.
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| Bush Reaches Out to All Americans |
| 8/3/2000 11:46 PM |
George W. Bush appealed to the nation Thursday night to "grant me a mandate" to lead and break the cycle of partisan Washington feuding. "After all the bitterness and broken faith, we can begin again," he said.
Bush hoped to make history by becoming the first presidential son since John Quincy Adams to follow his father into the White House.
Bush told cheering delegates he would help "end the politics of fear" and promised to work together with Democrats on pressing problems, including shoring up the Social Security system and more accountability in education policy.
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| Bush Accepts GOP Nomination |
| 8/3/2000 11:45 PM |
George W. Bush accepted the Republican presidential nomination Thursday night, presenting himself as an outsider who will return "civility and respect" to Washington politics. "They have not led," he said of the incumbent Democrats. "We will."
"This is not a time for third chances," he said of Al Gore's bid to succeed President Clinton. "It is a time for new beginnings."
Republicans ended their 37th National Convention in a mood of exhuberant optimism, but Bush sought to keep matters under control, saying of his duel with Gore: "I believe this will be a tough race, down to the wire."
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| Ford 'Doing Well' After Stroke |
| 8/3/2000 12:51 AM |
Only hours after being honored at the Republican Convention here, former president Gerald R. Ford was hospitalized today for a mild stroke that left him with slurred speech and unsteady balance but otherwise alert and "doing well," doctors said.
Ford, 87, suffered "a small brain-stem stroke" late Tuesday, and may have had a similar stroke one or two days earlier. "There's a little weakness in his left arm" and "a little bit of slurred speech," Robert Schwartzman, chief of neurology at Hahnemann University Hospital, told reporters at midday. By late afternoon, he said Ford was doing much better.
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| Jeb Bush, Son Take Letterman's Gig |
| 8/3/2000 12:45 AM |
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and his 24-year-old bachelor son, George P., teamed up for some David Letterman-style humor at the Republican National Convention.
They took turns giving the top 10 reasons the governor's brother, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, should be America's next president.
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| Convention Is Bush Family Affair |
| 8/3/2000 12:44 AM |
It's a Bush league convention, by George.
There's photogenic nephew George P. Bush leading a group of priests and nuns across the convention floor. The dad and former president, George Bush, waving from the stand.
Plus, a sister, assorted nieces, nephews and spouses, all drawn to the family business of putting George W. Bush in the White House.
"I love him so much that I'll do anything for him," said sister Doro Bush Koch, at 41 the youngest of the Bush siblings.
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| Republicans Nominate George W. Bush |
| 8/3/2000 12:42 AM |
Republicans awarded Texas Gov. George W. Bush their 2000 presidential nomination Wednesday night and chanted in unison as running mate Dick Cheney ignited the convention with a partisan spark. Taunting the Democrats, he said, "It's time for them to go."
Accepting his vice presidential nomination, Cheney said Al Gore is "trying to separate himself from Bill Clinton's shadow, but it won't work.
"Somehow we will never see one without thinking of the other," he said in a speech that drew waves of applause from Republicans hungry to regain power after eight years out of the White House.
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| McCain Heartily Endorses Bush |
| 8/1/2000 11:26 PM |
Texas Gov. George W. Bush secured an enthusiastic endorsement tonight from his toughest primary opponent as the Republican National Convention prepared to welcome him as the worthy heir to the party's strong tradition of international leadership.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, who last winter threatened to derail Bush's path to the Republican nomination, told cheering delegates and a national television audience that his erstwhile rival is a man "of courage and character" who will "confidently defend our interests and values wherever they are threatened."
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| Cheney Prepares for Big Speech |
| 8/1/2000 11:25 PM |
Dick Cheney may want to trade his low-key style for some of George W. Bush's exuberant, reach-out-and-touch-someone personality when he takes the podium Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention, speechwriters say.
Convention speeches are defining moments that require a pizzaz and emotional tilt that Cheney, who in recent years has addressed business audiences as a corporate chief, may find takes some practice.
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| GOP War Heroes Stand for Bush |
| 8/1/2000 11:24 PM |
A four-star general, two war heroes and a Cold War expert claimed feature roles Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention to reassure Americans that Texas Gov. George W. Bush is prepared to be commander in chief.
At a convention dedicated largely to the political middle, Bush championed a favorite issue of the right. Bush himself was appearing by satellite, from a symbol of American courage and division: the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg, Pa.
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| Bush Hails Ike, Lincoln |
| 8/1/2000 11:23 PM |
George W. Bush made a pilgrimage to Gettysburg Tuesday to pay homage to two of the party's most enduring heroes -- Abraham Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower -- and responded sharply on the way to increasingly personal criticism from the current occupant of the White House.
A day away from his arrival at the Republican convention in Philadelphia, Bush said Democratic President Clinton is "so desperate to have his legacy intact by getting Al Gore elected, he'll say anything, just like Gore will."
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| Mayor Courting at Convention |
| 8/1/2000 11:21 PM |
Mayor Anthony A. Williams came to this national meeting of Republicans in the City of Brotherly Love, hoping that a little of that love -- and support -- would rub off on him and the overwhelmingly Democratic city he governs.
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| Spectators at a Son's Rise |
| 8/1/2000 11:18 PM |
The reporter had waited nearly an hour to lob her question at Barbara Bush. In all of American history, she began, only one woman knew what it feels like to be wife of one president and mom to another. What would it mean to Mrs. Bush to join Abigail Adams?
"I don't think she was living," Barbara Bush fired back. "I plan to be living."
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| McCain Headlines Night of Veterans |
| 8/1/2000 11:17 PM |
George W. Bush received an enthusiastic endorsement from one-time rival Sen. John McCain tonight, as Republican convention-goers prepared to welcome the Texas governor to Philadelphia and hand him the nomination they hope will end an eight-year Democratic hold on the White House.
"Now it is my time to serve" under Bush, said McCain, the feisty Arizonan who sharply criticized Bush last spring in their battle for the nomination. The former Navy pilot and Vietnam prisoner of war added: "I know that by supporting George W. Bush I serve my country well...If you believe patriotism is more than a soundbite and public service should be more than a photo-op, then vote for governor Bush."
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| Missouri's Chairwoman Works to Woo Soccer Moms |
| 8/1/2000 11:09 PM |
The leader of Missouri's delegation to the Republican National Convention will spend the week courting the media, wooing corporate event sponsors and tending to the needs of delegates, no matter how small.
Ann Wagner, 37, is the ultimate soccer mom. And as the first woman to be chairwoman of the state party, she is working to attract women like her to George W. Bush and the GOP.
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