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  1. March 02, 2000

    Under the Influence: Party Machines, Lobbyists and Special Interests (Part Five)

    For months, disarray was the hallmark of Vice President Al Gore's campaign. Last October 6, he moved his campaign to Nashville from Washington and fired most of his top tier of advisers, including his campaign manager, ad man and pollster. One reason for the move was that the campaign was hemorrhaging money on exorbitant salaries and fancy downtown digs in the nation's capital. The other was to dispel the notion that Gore, raised on Embassy Row in a penthouse apartment in the tony Fairfax Hotel, was running a campaign that was Washington to its core. His Washington insider image also became a target of Democratic opponent Bill Bradley, who despite three terms in the U.S. Senate, had effectively repackaged himself as a man who eschewed the inside-the-Beltway mentality. In a January interview with the New York Times Magazine, Gore noted that his earlier decision was a big mistake: "I look back at the beginning of the year, while the impeachment trial was about to begin and incoming rounds were landing on the White House roof every 30 seconds, and I can't believe that I decided to put the campaign on K Street. You know, hello?" Read more

  2. March 02, 2000

    Under the Influence: Party Machines, Lobbyists and Special Interests (Part Three)

    WASHINGTON, March 2, 2000 — The goal of Texas Governor George W. Bush's advisers in the early days of the campaign was to make him the man to beat. Like Robert Dole in 1996, Bush locked up the lion's share of major endorsements in the Republican Party. His financial apparatus, run by a network of 200 business friends known as the "Pioneers," raised such a huge war chest in the first three quarters of 1999 that Bush decided to forgo federal matching funds. For many Republicans, coalescing around Bush was a way to vindicate his fathers humiliating loss to Bill Clinton eight years earlier. Read more

  3. March 02, 2000

    Under the Influence: Party Machines, Lobbyists and Special Interests (Part Four)

    WASHINGTON, March 2, 2000 — Throughout his political career, Bill Bradley has defined himself by what he is not. Read more

  4. March 02, 2000

    Under the Influence: Party Machines, Lobbyists and Special Interests (Part Two)

    Pat Buchanan's switch to the Reform Party on Oct. 25, 1999, was a dramatic change in the fiery commentators political life. A lifelong conservative Republican who had served in both the Nixon and Reagan White Houses, Buchanan was a stalwart of the GOP's social conservative movement and a legitimate, albeit fringe, contender for the Republican presidential nominations in both 1992 and 1996. Read more

  5. March 02, 2000

    Under the Influence: Party Machines, Lobbyists and Special Interests

    WASHINGTON, March 2, 2000 — 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 bring a new day to America. Amid all the words and posturing, the Center for Public Integrity once again takes a dispassionate look at those who craft the message that makes the candidate. Our conclusion: nothing new, little sign of reform, little goes on that is not packaged by party machines, lobbyists and special interests. Read more

  6. February 27, 2000

    ICIJ Member Works: The Risks of U.S. Aid

    WASHINGTON, February 27, 2000 — Members of the U.S. Congress are concerned that military aid to Colombia could be used to violate human rights, and they cite a recent incident as a case in point. Read more

  7. February 24, 2000

    ICIJ Member Kabral Blay-Amihere Twice Detained in Ghana

    WASHINGTON, February 24, 2000 — Blay-Amihere, editor of The Independent newspaper and president of the West African Journalists' Association, was taken into custody on Jan. 13 by armed soldiers and questioned about an editorial he had written, calling for a boycott of the country's annual military parade. Blay-Amihere described the parade as a relic from the days of army control over all state agencies and affairs in Ghana. Read more

  8. February 09, 2000

    Issue Ad Watch: Stealth PACs Revealed

    February 9, 2000 — The 2000 election cycle promised to be a high-stakes and free-spending election by anyone's measure. The balance of power in Congress was in question and the White House was up for grabs. The import of this election cycle meant that interested groups were going to be as active as possible in as many ways as possible. Read more

  9. January 12, 2000

    ICIJ Member Works: Sri Lanka’s Endless War

    COLOMBA, Sri Lanka, January 12, 2000 — This article was originally published in the January 12 edition of Jane's Defence Weekly. It is reproduced with permission from Jane's Information Group. Read more

  10. January 04, 2000

    Commentary: Campaign Checklist

    WASHINGTON, January 4, 2000 — The peaceful transfer of power is a majestic moment in any democracy, but it is particularly poignant for the most powerful nation on earth. Indeed, through wars and depressions, assassinations and scandals, for more than two centuries the United States of America unflinchingly has chosen its national leader every four years in an elegant exercise "of the people, by the people and for the people." Read more

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