Chapter 32 Political issues

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Political issues: Bob Dole and the 1996 Presidential Campaign

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"Tobacco doesn't seem an obvious benefactor for a senator from Kansas, where

there are plenty of wheat fields but few tobacco farms. Still, Dole has received more

than $330,000 directly from RJR, Philip Morris, and U.S. Tobacco during his career, in

addition to untold tobacco soft money through the Republican National Committee.

Meanwhile, Dole has consistently fought tobacco tax increases-even when proposed

by fellow Republicans... "In less dramatic fashion, Elizabeth Dole has also earned Big

Tobacco's appreciation. In 1987, while serving as secretary of transportation, she

refused to ban smoking on airplanes, ignoring recommendations from Surgeon

General C. Everett Koop and the National Academy of Sciences. Perhaps

coincidentally, tobacco contributions to the American Red Cross, which she heads,

have escalated. Philip Morris, Brown & Williamson, and RJR gave the charity a

combined $265,530 in 1995, compared to a total over the previous five years of

$321,427."

Mother Jones, May-June, 1996, p. 40

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Bob Dole took at least 26 subsidized rides (billed at about 5 percent of their actual

cost) on U.S. Tobacco Company's corporate jet. The tax breaks that Dole engineered

for the company cumulatively amounted to at least $250 million.

Mother Jones, May-June, 1996, p. 5

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"Roderick DeArment, a former Dole chief of staff, is chairman of Lawyers for Dole, a

group of about 700 lawyers raising funds for Dole's campaign. DeArment is a law

partner at Covington & Burling, which represents the major tobacco companies (Philip

Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Lorillard, and Brown & Williamson), as well as The Tobacco

Institute. Covington & Burling spent more than $1 million in Philip Morris money to fund

Healthy Buildings, an international magazine using phony science to promote the

tobacco industry's idea that indoor smoking bans are unnecessary. Covington &

Burling also commissioned a dubious 1996 study purporting federal tobacco

restrictions could cost the nation 92,000 jobs and $7.9 billion in lost output...

Mother Jones, May-June 1996, p. 37

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