Word: ricks
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...welcome Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rick Lazio's Sept. 23 agreement to refrain from the use of unregulated "soft-money" contributions to their Senate campaigns in New York. No candidate would voluntarily refrain from using such contributions without a belief that the public wants big money out of politics. The agreement should therefore embolden politicians to call for the elimination of soft money in their campaigns as part of campaign finance reform. The thorny issues that still threaten the New York agreement, however, will pose equally strong barriers to reform at the national level...
...Brennan report comes at a moment when many voters are particularly tuned in to the issue. In the U.S. Senate race between Hillary Clinton and Rick Lazio, soft money took center stage last week, when the candidates signed an agreement to stop accepting any unregulated contributions. And this week, campaign finance dogmatists Sens. Russ Feingold and John McCain challenged Gore and Bush to follow suit. Gore, who's seen by many as the ultimate master of dubious fund-raising practices, managed to simultaneously accept the challenge and take a swipe at his opponent. Bush demurred, saying he didn't think...
...fair share of isolated issues, but it's been a long time since we've had something this widespread and this permanent," said Rick Osterberg '96, a database applications specialist for HASCS...
...RICK LAZIO Polls say in-your-face style loses Hil debate. Didn't they teach manners at Vassar...
Hillary Clinton may have broached the issue - but Rick Lazio drove it home. Early Sunday, after two weeks of increasingly embarrassing obfuscation, and four months after she proposed a similar ban, Clinton agreed to a deal with her opponent prohibiting the use of soft money for campaign advertising. The deal, penned by opponent Lazio, could herald a great rush of belt-tightening over at Clinton headquarters...