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...Says Harold Hammer, the Gulf executive vice president who directed his company's effort to thwart the Texan: "My only objection to Pickens is the aura he tries to create when he says he is for the small shareholder. That's just a lot of crap." Says Senator Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat: "Pickens makes a crusade out of what he's doing because he can make a lot of money." Many critics have labeled Pickens a greenmailer, a charge he hotly denies. The term describes a type of corporate blackmail in which a big investor buys up stock...
Then, like a general who seizes his enemies' weapons and turns them against his foes, Stockman grabbed some labeled boxes brought into the hearing room by Democratic Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, who had planned to use them as props for an attack on the President's budget. Brandishing one that carried the word VETERANS in black letters on its side, Stockman suggested that the $18 billion military pension plan, which covers 1.3 million military retirees, is an expenditure that could go on the congressional chopping block. "I'll probably be in hot water for saying it," Stockman confessed...
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Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, who has been leading the fight against Edwin Meese's nomination as Attorney General, relishes his role as captain of the Senate ethics squad. So more than a few eyebrows were raised when it was learned that the millionaire parking-lot magnate had received a $250,000 finder's fee for merely making two telephone calls last June to help arrange the $30 million sale of Washington's Hay-Adams Hotel. "It's legal and ethical," Metzenbaum said. But the resulting publicity apparently reminded him of a maxim he has often preached...
Senate Millionaires Howard Metzenbaum and Edward Kennedy are nitpicking the financial affairs of Ed Meese, who serves this country at great personal financial sacrifice. Their actions show them to be small-minded partisans, insensitive to the needs of someone who still works for a living...