Word: khachigian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff member from the state Democratic committee, which launched Buttman, says Dole adviser Ken Khachigian was overheard asking whether the prankster was in the vicinity. The answer was yes; in fact, Buttman is following Dole to New York. This cigarette, at least, appears to be habit forming...
...conservative political operatives that calls itself the Alliance to Revitalize California. The group, formed last January, includes Michael Johnson, a onetime Nader's Raider; Bill Zimmerman, a former campaign director for liberal state senator Tom Hayden; Tom Proulx, the co-founder of the software company Intuit Inc.; and Ken Khachigian, a prominent adviser to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. As Khachigian says, "If you told me I'd be working with Zimmerman someday, I'd have said, 'No way!' We are polar opposites in ideology...
...advance of the plutocrats can be attributed to several trends. With career politicians fallen from esteem, can-do entrepreneurs have stepped in to fill the vacuum. Then there is the huge cost of essential TV and radio campaigns. Political strategist Ken Khachigian estimates that a TV ad seen four or five times over a week by most of the Californian viewing public costs about $500,000. Challengers need lots of money to mount any serious campaign against most incumbents, who benefit from political-action-committee dollars and laws enabling them to carry money from one campaign to the next. Rich...