Word: democratic
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...asked for help from the five Senators, all beneficiaries of direct and indirect contributions from him: Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini (who had received $55,000), Arizona Republican John McCain ($125,433), Ohio Democrat John Glenn ($234,000), California Democrat Alan Cranston ($897,000) and Michigan Democrat Donald Riegle, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee ($76,100). In addition, according to the Arizona Republic, DeConcini's top aides received more than $50 million in real estate loans. Keating also gave McCain and his wife trips, including vacations in the Bahamas valued at $13,400, which McCain paid for after they became...
...hard. In the varied scandals involving improper political influence that have beset the capital, one name keeps popping up: Alfonse D'Amato. Last week D'Amato even became entangled in New York City's increasingly nasty mayoralty contest between Republican Rudolph Giuliani, the Mob-busting former U.S. Attorney, and Democrat David Dinkins. D'Amato conceded that he had telephoned Giuliani in 1984 and 1985 to pass along pleas for a review of charges or reduced prison sentences for Mobsters Paul Castellano and Mario Gigante. Giuliani refused to intercede...
...presence of U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes (D-Ohio) at the hearing was a tip-off that Frank was being discussed. U.S. Rep. Chester Atkins (D-Mass.), a member of the ethics committee, with drew from the Frank case because Frank is a fellow Democrat from Massachusetts. Atkins said he could not render an impartial decision on various charges involving Frank's relationship with Stephen Gobie...
Frank, meanwhile, is showing no signs of laying low as he takes to the House floor for the first time since scandal broke and has maintained a full schedule of events in his Massachusetts district. And in the past two weeks a legal defense fund set up in the Democrat's name has begun receiving contributions...
...sales tax, even though it was intended to offset part of the property tax. De Kalb's chief executive officer, Manuel Maloof, bemoans the deterioration of the federal highways and Washington's unwillingness to provide adequate funds for the national highway system and toxic-waste removal. But Maloof, a Democrat, is even more upset at his own inability to repair his county's sewers and pipelines. "It's all a residue of Ronald Reagan," Maloof says."He did more than most by telling us you don't have to pay taxes even though you still have needs...