Word: chairman
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...left. The Gore family had its doubts about all the consultants; Gore was on his third pollster, and the campaign had changed management three times. All the exiles seemed to be leaking their side of the story to reporters. The whole thing was driving Daley, Gore's new campaign chairman, crazy...
With a price tag of some $60 million, Jon Corzine's ticket to the U.S. Senate was the costliest in history. The former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs spent $3 million from his $400 million personal cache on Election Day alone--about $20 a vote--to defeat four-term Congressman Bob Franks for the New Jersey seat of retiring Democrat Frank Lautenberg. Though the biggest issue in the race was the amount of campaign spending (Republicans dubbed Corzine the "human ATM machine"), Corzine ran on one of the most liberal platforms in the nation, advocating such edgy programs as public...
...Republican in Washington, in a not so veiled reference to Daley's father's reputation as the Chicago mayor who cooked elections: "The idea of being lectured on the sanctity of the ballot by Daley is pretty galling to Republicans. It's like waving a red flag." Bush campaign chairman Evans denounced the Democrats for "politicizing and distorting these events at the expense of our democracy...
...took Florida back from Gore, and the other networks shortly followed, declaring it too close to call. The lobby of the Nashville Loews was suddenly empty. Campaign chairman Bill Daley was on his cell phone, and he looked sick...
...these people had waited hours in the rain, and they would want to see him in person. But they quickly decided to send Daley out instead. Daley and Karenna stood over speechwriter Eli Attie and shouted their ideas at him as he tapped out the draft of what the chairman would...