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...people, if you're looking for notoriety. Donald Wildmon, head of the right-wing American Family Association, has condemned Haynes' film for its "porno scenes of homosexuals." And the Advocate, a gay biweekly, has reported that the campaign against Poison was stoked by White House chief of staff John Sununu in hopes of embarrassing John Frohnmayer, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, which helped fund the film...
...Washington Post began investigating Sununu months ago, prompted in part by signs that his family (which includes eight children, two still residing at home) was living at the edge of its means yet managed to take regular skiing trips to Colorado and New Hampshire. Reporters at the Post, whose lead was followed by U.S. News & World Report, insist they got their scoop by observing that Sununu was an unusually frequent traveler and by demanding his records from the Pentagon. But once Sununu's detractors got wind of the investigation, says a Post staffer, "they called to cheer...
After the first stories broke, officials unfriendly to Sununu quietly pushed a second, more damaging wave of allegations: Sununu not only made excessive use of Air Force planes, but when he traveled to ski resorts to give speeches, he sometimes also accepted free lodging, lift tickets and airfare for his wife. Such charges embarrassed the ethics-sensitive Bush Administration, while + providing a tempting target for Sununu's many enemies. They include...
...Hampshire Republicans. At least initially, Sununu suspected he had been knifed by Chuck Douglas, a Concord Republican whom Sununu and his wife Nancy, now a G.O.P. operative in Washington, personally dislike and worked hard to defeat in his bid for re-election to Congress last year. Republican Governor Judd Gregg also loathes Sununu and blames him for leaving behind a major budget deficit. "It may come as a surprise to people in Washington," says one of Sununu's friends in New Hampshire, "but John has as many enemies here as there...
...Budget Boys. During last fall's deficit-reduction talks, Sununu's high- handed style greatly offended the old bulls of Congress. The last straw for Senator Robert Byrd, the powerful West Virginia Democrat, came when Sununu plopped his feet onto the conference table and read newspapers while the others negotiated. "Your conduct is arrogant," Byrd thundered. "It is rude." And he vowed that Sununu would live to regret...