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To: Cisco who wrote (528)	9/30/2000 3:39:19 PM
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Yvette Lozano, who had access to debate materials kept at the McKinnon office, graduated from a Democratic activists training program in 1990, records show. According to the training organization’s website, the goal of the program is to train "the next generation of Democratic activists." But confusing comments and actions taken by McKinnon himself now have investigators and campaign insiders fascinated. McKinnon, who got his political start by volunteering for a Texas Democrat's 1984 Senate campaign, where he worked with political operatives James Carville and Paul Begala, explained that he told Lozano to mail a pair of $19.99 khaki trousers back to the Gap for a another color. But insiders find it curious that McKinnon felt the need to mail the pants at all -- when a Gap store is located just a mile from McKinnon’s Austin office! ... And did Mark McKinnon "express mail" the pants at a cost [$10 for express delivery] of nearly half the value of the pants? "Bush is a lightweight," Paul Begala told the WASHINGTON POST‘s Howard Kurtz last year. Begala noted that Bush would be helped by hiring Begala‘s old college chum McKinnon. "He needs a guy like Mark who can give him the appearance of having a heart and maybe even of having a brain." "I trust Mark, I trust his judgment," said Democratic consultant and close Clinton adviser Mandy Grunwald, also a former colleague McKinnon‘s. In 1995, McKinnon told a reporter that he thought Democrats would have plenty of opportunities to make gains in the future when "Republicans will be in the position of having to defend some of the rather extreme legislation they have been passing." McKinnon added: "I think progressives should relax, sit back and wait for the time to strike." drudgereport.com