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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (36681)	9/13/2000 11:29:54 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

This always was a re-run of the elder Bush running against Clinton... Shrub is just a stand-in. .. that is completely evident by the "advisors" that are behind him.

To: puborectalis who wrote (36681)	9/13/2000 11:44:34 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 769670

This latest Gore/trial lawyers bribery scandal has legs. Even the NYTimes doesn't think they can aford sit on it. Memo Linking Political Donation and Veto Spurs Federal Inquiry By DON VAN NATTA Jr. with RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 — Vice President Al Gore attended a Houston dinner in November 1995 to promote a budding relationship between the Democratic Party and a handful of powerful Texas trial lawyers. The relationship blossomed, producing $4 million in donations from the lawyers' firms since 1996. But it also produced some heavy-handed fund- raising that has recently drawn the scrutiny of federal campaign finance investigators. At the time of the dinner, the lawyers were deeply troubled by a bill passed by the Republican-led Congress that would have drastically overhauled the nation's litigation system by restricting the amount of money that people injured by faulty products could win in lawsuits. Two days after the dinner, Democratic officials asked Mr. Gore to call several lawyers who attended the dinner to ask each to give $100,000 to the party. . . . On May 2, 1996, President Clinton vetoed the bill, which would have set strict limits in both state and federal courts on punitive damages, the money juries may give beyond awards to compensate victims for their losses. Supporters of the measure, including Democrats who lobbied for almost a decade for legislation to limit liability damages, argued that it would put a cap on multimillion-dollar jury awards that they said added to consumer costs. But the opponents said large jury awards were needed to prevent companies from selling unsafe products. . . . Among those who criticized the veto was Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, who had pushed hard for the legislation. In a Wall Street Journal interview that year, Mr. Lieberman, now Mr. Gore's running mate, described the trial lawyers as "a small group of people who are deeply invested in the status quo, who have worked the system very effectively and have had a disproportionate effect." nytimes.com