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...life. In a classic, cyclical conflict between the "smokestack" of job-creating development and the "geranium" of quality of life, public opinion today is clearly on the side of the geranium. "Environment, growth and crime are the big issues in this race," says Feinstein's chief strategist William Carrick. "In a way they are all rolled up into one: losing control of the California dream...
Personal shots. Last week Gephardt Campaign Manager William Carrick apologized to Al Gore and Fred Martin, Gore's campaign manager, for calling them "bastards" in a Washington Post interview. The bad blood dates back to Gore's December win in the South Carolina straw poll. To hype the victory, the Gore camp issued a press release declaring that Carrick had personally led the Gephardt effort in the state. In fact, Carrick had returned twice to his native South Carolina, but only to visit his ailing mother...
...about to run nasty TV spots. As it turned out, Simon rejected deployment of the negative ads. His aides, however, laughed about the Gephardt campaign's "paranoia." For the moment there is a tentative accord. Simon Campaign Director Brian Lunde got a call from Gephardt's chief, Bill Carrick, proposing a "no first use" agreement. Says Lunde: "Carrick offered that they wouldn't go negative if we didn...
...than anti-Reagan boiler plate, criticisms rarely pass his lips. Even some loyal aides concede that he has flitted from issue to issue in a way that reduces his effectiveness. Last week longtime Spokesman and Confidant Don Foley resigned from the campaign because of friction with Campaign Manager Bill Carrick. But Gephardt has often relieved subordinates by kicking them upstairs. "If I have one problem with him," said a longtime colleague, echoing others, "it is that there are no tests -- everybody's good. He is not critical enough." Gephardt notes that he has "consistently" fired people who don't perform...
...talk-show hosts and newspaper reporters came close enough by demanding to know whether the inquiry was a legitimate campaign issue. Many of the candidates danced around this hand grenade, waiting for it to become yesterday's news. "The debate," said Richard Gephardt's campaign manager William Carrick, "is going through an awkward phase, a cartoon phase." But even if the sex angle goes stale, candidates will have to spend considerable time on broader ethical issues...