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WASHINGTON: As beefy as Haley Barbour is, he's a hard man to pin down. In testimony Thursday before the Senate campaign fund-raising inquiry, the former RNC chairman dismissed charges that he used the National Policy Forum to funnel a $1.6 million 'loan repayment' into RNC coffers as "infuriatingly phony" and "outright false." Barbour even tried to turn the tables on Democrat John Glenn by coyly referring to the senator's own experience on the other side of the microphone during the 1989 "Keating Five" investigation. "I understand very well the resentment that boiled up in you during that...
WASHINGTON: In the campaign finance hearings' first long look at the other side of the aisle, eager Democrats spent the day grilling Benton Becker, lawyer for Hong Kong real estate developer Ambrous Tung Young. Becker readily described how erstwhile GOP think tank The National Policy Forum was used to funnel campaign donations from Hong Kong real estate developer Young and other foreign nationals to state GOP organizations. Becker maintained today that the RNC was well aware at the time that the money originated from a foreign company, making Young's donations illegal under US law. (The money was finally returned...
...Democrats made their strategy clear: unless we all play nice with one another, everyone is going to get hurt. When Thompson warned of Chinese influence peddling, his counterpart, ranking Democrat John Glenn, raked over former Republican Party chief Haley Barbour for funneling foreign money through his National Policy Forum. Majority whip Don Nickles hammered away about White House coffees as fund raisers; Dick Durbin, junior Democrat from Illinois, read a Nickles letter from 1990, inviting potential Republican donors who pledged $1,000 to a reception on the lawn at Vice President Dan Quayle's house...
...from the disintegration of the P.R.I.'s political infrastructure: the unions and local civic organizations that have traditionally delivered their votes, en masse, to the party. On the eve of the vote, some two dozen national unions, representing 2 million members, formed themselves into a new grouping called the Forum, severed their ties with the P.R.I. and told members to vote as they pleased...
...fall of 1932, Chasteney was employed by Time, Inc. Chasteney worked for Time, Architectural Forum, and Magazine of Building before helping to launch House and Home...