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Dirty Politics – Part Four
BY Stephanie Mencimer | June 04, 2008
Hillary Clinton’s campaign created a stir in December 2007 when one of its operatives began dishing dirt on Barack Obama in an interview with The Washington Post. Billy Shaheen, Clinton’s New Hampshire co-chair and husband of former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen, told The Post that he thought Obama was unelectable because the GOP would have a heyday with his former drug use. (Obama wrote in his first book that he had experimented with marijuana and cocaine while in high school and college.)
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BY Stephanie Mencimer | June 03, 2008
Allen Raymond knows a thing or two about dirty politics.
At 41, Raymond has spent most of his career working deep inside Republican politics. He was once the head of opposition research for the New Jersey Republican Party, and as he worked his way up the food-chain of electoral politics, he went on to become chief of staff to a co-chairman of the Republican National Committee. He did a stint in presidential elections working for Steve Forbes’s presidential campaign in 2000, and after Forbes lost, Raymond became the executive director of the Republican Leadership Council, a political action committee with several U.S. senators on its board. He also ventured into business for himself, setting up a GOP phone-bank business with seed money from his mentor, uber-lobbyist and now Mississippi governor Haley Barbour, and Barbour’s partner, Ed Rogers.
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BY Stephanie Mencimer | June 02, 2008
In March 2006, the conservative American Spectator’s front cover featured a photograph of Mitt Romney, with the headline “Romney Rocks!” The story suggested that he could become president and quoted prominent conservatives praising him and the idea of a Romney administration. Despite this early enthusiasm, the former Massachusetts governor’s campaign struggled to win conservative voters and managed to garner only 272 delegates out of the 1,191 needed to win the nomination.
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BY Stephanie Mencimer | May 30, 2008
When it comes to presidential elections, all politics is dirty. As Susan Estrich, Michael Dukakis’s campaign manager in 1988, says, “He who doesn’t throw mud ends up covered in it.” The 2008 election has been no exception to the truth that Dukakis learned the hard way, and we can look forward to almost six more months of mud blizzards before Election Day clears the campaign skies in November.
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