Eleven potential Republican presidential candidates, several media titans and a gaggle of top political donors ranked among attendees this month of a secretive politics and policy conference, according to an attendee roster obtained by the Center for Public Integrity. Likely White House hopefuls listed as participants include former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. […]
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Big GOP contributor advised administration’s energy task force
When a generous patron of President Bush and the Republican Party sought political backing for his company’s multi-billion dollar Alaskan pipeline project, he turned to Vice President Dick Cheney, head of the administration’s energy policy task force, known formally as the National Energy Policy Development Group. The Bush administration has refused to disclose the names […]
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Party machines, lobbyists and special interests: Part one
It is no surprise and nothing new in the land of the spin and the home of the sound bite that each and every candidate for the presidency in the year 2000 would like to convince us that he and only he is the candidate of reform, the candidate with integrity, the candidate who will […]
