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...White. In fact, White began putting together a reshuffled team long before Grandmaison was actually sacked. He hired a political consultant, Geoffrey Hockman, his former Ohio State roommate, to undertake a three-week study of the campaign, and last week made Hockman his deputy. He lured aboard savvy Washington Lobbyist Thomas Boggs to handle congressional relations. And newly appointed Keefe had actually been advising the campaign informally for several months. Says White: "We needed an experienced organization to reach out to the political structure in the states. Bob is the best man to do this...
...Without the passage of this bill," said Massachusetts Gay Political Caucus lobbyist Arlina Isaacson last week, "the gay community has no protection against being refused housing, credit, or employment simply because they...
...difference in this year's outcome, according to Isaacson, was the presence of a full-time lobbyist hired by the caucus...
...Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke expelled Valeri Ivanov, a Soviet diplomat, for espionage. To the government's embarrassment, however, the story refused to leave along with the diplomat. Two weeks ago, Special Minister of State Mick Young resigned when it was learned that he had talked to a lobbyist about confidential Cabinet security committee discussions concerning David Combe, a former Labor official who had become friendly with the Russian. Moreover, it was widely believed that similar information had been leaked to others by some one even higher-ranking than Young. Last week the identity of that person was revealed...
Terry Bracy, now a Washington lobbyist, is one former presidential campaign aide for whom the dilemma is not hypothetical. During the campaign for the 1976 Democratic nomination, he served as policy director for Contender Morris Udall, the Arizona Congressman. In the summer of 1975, Bracy says he was "kind of horrified" to be offered "inside strategy and plans" from the Carter organization by a putative Carterite turncoat. He refused, and told the Georgians. Of course, for all of Bracy's admirable fair play, the documents may not have been so tempting: the offer came some eight months before...