Following standard practice, the Dole campaign ''salted'' its list of contributors submitted to the Federal Election Commission with booby traps. These traps are designed to catch campaigns that steal the lists of rival candidates and try to mine them for cash, an illegal practice under Federal law. What showed up in one trap, according to the Dole camp, is the Bush campaign. Here's what happened: The Dole list of contributors included the name of the campaign counsel's 90-year-old grandmother, who lives in Shawnee, Kan. Sure enough, the woman, whose name was deliberately misspelled, soon received a fund-raising pitch from the Bush camp with her name written exactly the way it appeared on the Federal list. In a letter to Lee Atwater, Mr. Bush's campaign manager, the Dole forces said they regarded this incident as a ''very serious matter'' and asked for an explanation.... )
Том Вульф умер в 2018 в возрасте 88 лет. В марте 2016 он отзывался о Трампе с определенной симпатией, напоминая о том, что причиной успеха Рейгана было то, что просвещенные современники считали его идиотом.
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Ли Этуотер не брезговал грязными трюками.
Following standard practice, the Dole campaign ''salted'' its list of contributors submitted to the Federal Election Commission with booby traps. These traps are designed to catch campaigns that steal the lists of rival candidates and try to mine them for cash, an illegal practice under Federal law.
What showed up in one trap, according to the Dole camp, is the Bush campaign.
Here's what happened: The Dole list of contributors included the name of the campaign counsel's 90-year-old grandmother, who lives in Shawnee, Kan. Sure enough, the woman, whose name was deliberately misspelled, soon received a fund-raising pitch from the Bush camp with her name written exactly the way it appeared on the Federal list.
In a letter to Lee Atwater, Mr. Bush's campaign manager, the Dole forces said they regarded this incident as a ''very serious matter'' and asked for an explanation.... )
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