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Dartboard was surfing the Web recently when we stumbled upon a real gem, Resignation.com. Arianna Huffington, our favorite Greek-heiress-turned-pundit, has had her minions construct a site in tribute to that most dramatic of political statements--quitting. The site includes a history of notable leaders who have thrown in the towel, a list of publications which have called for the President to step down and an opportunity for people to issue their own call for Clinton's surrender...
Davis is gambling that there are enough voters like Perez left in California for a poor man to win at a plutocrat's game. If he prevails, Harman and Checchi--like Michael Huffington, the state's failed millionaire Senate candidate of 1994--will have learned that California campaigns aren't so virtual after...
These days it's hard to imagine how anyone could cross the line about anything having to do with Bill Clinton's sex life. But right-wing pundit ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, ever the trailblazer, may have. In a January column, she reports allegations that Shelia Lawrence, best known as the widow of the ambassador ignominiously disinterred from Arlington National Cemetery, took advantage of Clinton's now infamous libido. Huffington quotes a source saying "[M. Larry Lawrence's] greatest leverage was having turned a blind eye toward Clinton's affair with his own wife." Lawrence responded by slapping her and Creators Syndicate...
Family fortune, though, doesn't predict campaign success. Some of the more profligate self-financers in recent years spent tens of millions on doomed candidacies, including Steve Forbes ($43 million in '96), Ross Perot ($68 million in '92) and Senate candidate Michael Huffington ($28 million in '94). In the past congressional campaign, only 21 of the 145 biggest spenders eventually won seats. One problem for well-heeled candidates is that they sometimes succumb to hubris. In 1994 Millner turned off some rural Georgians by jokingly asking a local farmer, "Do you work for a living, or are you in farming...
DIVORCED. ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, 46, flamboyant Republican pundit, and MICHAEL HUFFINGTON, 49, former California Congressman; ending their 11-year marriage; in Washington...