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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (37505)	9/17/2000 5:09:20 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) of 769667

<<Not only is Gore dumb, he's venal. His solicitation of $100,000 from the trial lawyer Walter Umphrey in exchange for a presidential veto would have been called bribery in the pre-Clinton era. >> Heard the rest of the story on McLaughlin Group today. Umphrey was one of five lawyers contacted and after the $500k was collected Clinton vetoed the bill. Now you may ask why five lawyers would pony up $100k each for a veto. Well, the Umphrey Five were the 5 lawyers who took $3.3 BBB Billion of the taxpayers money for their work on the tobacco settlement. Without the veto their payday would have been reduced substantially. At least we found out what the going rate for a democratic veto is.

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