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{{Could this have anything to do with the hundreds of
thousands of dollars the phone companies have "donated" to
Jesse and his "causes'? AKE}}
Jesse Plays Hardball? | February 5, 2001
The Chicago Sun Times is reporting that Jesse Jackson
threatened opposition to two major telecommunications
mergers to extract concessions from the companies involved.
And the paper reports that those concessions ended up
including contracts with companies that have ties to Jackson
family members, including one of his sons.
An example: Jackson threatened to oppose the SBC
Communications merger with Ameritech. But then Ameritech
sold a piece of its cell phone business to a Jackson
colleague named Chester Davenport. Jackson then blessed the
merger. His son Jonathan later did consulting work for
Davenport's firm.
And The New York Post reports that SBC and Ameritech (now
merged into Verizon) gave one of Jackson's tax-exempt
organizations a half million dollars.
And, says The Post, Bell Atlantic and GTE gave that same
Jackson group a million dollars. Jackson supported their
merger.
A Pretty Penny
Some senior military officers are now saying privately that
the fleet of cargo planes that was needed on President
Clinton's trips to the far east left the Air Force stretched
thin for its other troop deployments and military exercises.
The Washington Times cites unofficial estimates that the
trip to Vietnam in November cost the military roughly $60
million involved 26 transport aircraft which ferried the
limousines, sports utility vehicles and helicopters that
Presidential security requires on trips to developing
countries. An earlier trip to India and Pakistan cost
between $25 and $50 million.
Part of the problem last year was the both the first lady
and vice president, who also have large security needs, were
campaigning and thus tied up transport aircraft as well.
Soft Money - Hard Results
A new study by a research group at Brigham Young University
concludes that the Democrats last year for the first time
was able to match the Republicans in raising soft money and
that the two parties combined spent roughly a half billion
soft dollars on the campaign.
Soft money is the unregulated cash that corporations, unions
and the private institutions give to political parties.
The study called the growth in Democratic soft money a
stunning development, suggesting it might have accounted for
the Party's pickup of enough seats to create the 50-50
deadlock in the U.S. Senate.
Brit Hume
Washington managing editor
Fox News Channel
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