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HASTERT IS "DENNIS THE MENACE" SAYS ACTIVIST
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(CNNS, 01/24/99) -- Don't be fooled by mass media portrayals of
House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R., Ill.) as a "gentle,
grandfatherly figure," says political activist and radio
commentator Jim Hightower. In an article by Hightower, reprinted
in a local alternative newspaper, Hightower gives the real story
on Hastert. ("Dennis The Menace," by Jim Hightower. Alternet
News Service, qtd. in "The Octopus," Jan. 22-28, 1999.)
According to Hightower:
1) In the Nov. 1998 election, Hastert received more than $1
million in campaign contributions, even though he was a shoe-in
to be re-elected. The mega-bucks came mostly from "Wall Street
financiers, bankers, telecommunications giants, energy companies,
health care corporations, and other special interests..."
2) Hastert, writes Hightower, "has been a bulwark of the new
Globaloney, actively supporting NAFTA in '93, GATT in the
lame-duck Congress of November '94, Fast Track in '97..."
3) In 1996, Hastert pushed hard "to give the Pentagon (and its
weapons contractors) $7 billion more than the generals themselves
requested."
4) Hastert voted for the 1997 congressional pay raise.
5) Hastert "opposes restrictions on the liberal flow of corrupt
campaign contributions into American politics." Hastert "opposes
requirements that lobbyists should at least disclose how much
money they are taking from whom to do what..."
6) Hastert favors denying small shareholders the right to sue
Wall Street firms that bilk them.
In spite of all this, the mass media does not criticize the new
House Speaker, but instead gushes his praise. (Similar to the
mass media love-fest when Madeline Albright became the new
Secretary of State.) Hightower writes that "media reaction [to
Hastert] is typified by the New York Times, which hailed Hastert
yesterday as 'a lumbering former high school wrestling coach who
brokers compromises and smooths out differences...'"
How wonderful. But who does Hastert really work for when he, in
his gentle way, "makes the trains run on time"? Who does Hastert
work for, asks Hightower, and at whose expense?
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