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...post-election breakfast, Ed Rollins, campaign manager for Gov.-elect Christine Todd Whitman, declared quite openly that he had used $500,000 to pay off Black ministers in New Jersey so they wouldn't press their congregations to the polls. If Rollins had been enjoying bacon and eggs at home and talking privately to his wife about his shenanigans, some shrewd investigative reporting might have unearthed the story. But Rollins was in Washington D.C., and he was eating with a gaggle of journalists at a public occasion when he casually revealed his plot...
...aide, said that much of the campaign's work went toward "getting out the vote on one side, and voter sup...and keeping the vote light in other areas." Does Mr. Webster B. Whitman, in this little snippet, shy away from the term, "voter suppression?" Carl Golden, the governor-elect's chief spokesperson, said, "Sometimes voter suppression is as important in this business as vote-getting...
...indicted on criminal charges; three of them went to prison. In 1989 the union settled a racketeering suit in which the feds accused its leadership of forging a "devil's pact" with the Mafia. To avoid a government-imposed trusteeship, the Teamsters agreed to allow the members to freely elect their president. Since then, Lacey and his team have driven out more than 150 misbehavers...
...some of them would not be filled for three to five years. Last week Detroit was again the scene of a sort of job panic: thousands of unemployed workers began lining up at 7 a.m. to apply for jobs that might never exist in a gambling casino that Mayor-elect Dennis Archer wants to keep from being built...
Catherine Sullivan, Transition Media Coordinator for New Haven Mayor-elect John DeStefano, said students should "know where you're going, and stay in well lit, busy areas...