W A S H I N G T O N, May 13
—Nothing —NOTHING, we tell you—makes Clinton-Gore Democrats (remember when there was no other kind?) madder than when people suggest that George W. Bush is a more principled POTUS than his predecessor.
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Of course, it sort of depends on which principles you use to arrive at your definition of "principled."
But as the president signs the farm bill today, subsequently heading off to brag about it in an ag state he lost in 2000, we DO have to wonder how a free-market, free-trading, anti-McCain-Feingold guy like Bush, just 16 months or so into his presidency, could have turned the clock back on the farm bill; turned his back on free trade — on the steel protection initiative — more than Bill Clinton ever did; and signed into law a campaign finance bill the White House maintains to this day is at least partly unconstitutional. (But, mind you, the Republican National Committee really didn't get the White House's approval prior to filing suit against the law … )
The hard way to pass a free trade bill is to have the president out there at public events speaking as an ardent free-trader, appealing to the better angels of wavering members. The "easy" way is to make parochial side deals of a protectionist bent with certain members to gain passage. The administration seems to be going for the latter.
As the AP's Lindlaw nicely sums it up, "President Bush is signing a farm bill that expands subsidies to growers and appeals to rural voters but is opposed by many fellow Republicans as a budget-busting step backward in agriculture policy."
"It increases spending by nearly 80 percent over the cost of existing programs at a time when government and private analysts are projecting a budget deficit this year of $100 billion or more. The president has been calling on lawmakers to show fiscal restraint."
We can't overstate the spitting disgust that a lot of businesspeople and conservatives openly express with the president's actions on these scores. They understand and appreciate that a president sometimes has to be political, but the combined effect of all of these compromises is turning some conservative stomachs.
And maybe when Bush says he wants to "change the tone in Washington," he really JUST means Washington (not to parse words or anything), which would get him off the hook for that interview he gave last week to WFAA in which he attacked Texas Democratic Senate nominee Ron Kirk as an "obstructionist."
If it were Clinton doing any of these things, Republicans would be going crazy right now, both on the merits of the issues and also just because of how ridiculously political it all appears.
What accounts for these apparent betrayals of principle? The must-read story-of-the-day in the New York Times seems to lay the blame on one man.
Rick Berke and David Sanger splash all over the front page with this breathless lead: "Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, is expanding his White House portfolio by inserting himself into the debate over how to deal with the Middle East, trade, terrorism, Latin America and other foreign policy matters, say outside advisers and administration officials, including some who are rankled by his growing involvement."
"Growing?" We'd always thought Karl was influential in pretty much everything all along. One of the most interesting decisions the Bush Administration made early on was to have Rove and Hughes virtually disappear as public spokespeople to focus on their behind-the-scenes roles.
The Times piece says that Secretary Powell is among those unhappy with Rove's "rise" in foreign policy influence.
"Mr. Rove declined to be interviewed for this article, writing in an e-mail message, 'I'm not deeply involved in foreign policy!' Asked to elaborate, he restated in a subsequent e-mail message, 'I am not deeply involved.'"
"But speaking briefly to a reporter during a trip with President Bush several weeks ago, he said he had expressed opinions to the president on the Mideast crisis. Mr. Rove declined to discuss the issue further."
Perhaps it depends upon how you define "deeply."
The Note approves of playing hardball in an election year, but Mr. Change The Tone certainly sounded a lot like Bill Clinton in going after his old friend Kirk. We don't know that Karl Rove put him up to that, but it's safe to assume that Rove at least signed off on that rather extraordinary act.
Could someone please explain to us who the audience was supposed to be who would look favorably on the president attacking a pro-business, mostly centrist, African-American, history-making candidate with a record of working across party lines, including with a fella goes by the name George Dubya who used to be the governor of Texas?
As it happens, the chairman of the Republican Senate campaign committee, Senator Bill Frist, in an interview in which he predicts that control of the Senate will boil down to a "one-seat net gain up or down" in November, also "lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle … who he said 'has become a rallying flag that symbolizes obstructionism of this president's vision of America.'"
Frist zigs from telling the Times that "Bush had agreed to an extraordinarily heavy schedule of campaigning to oust the Senate Democrats from power and that the NRSC was 'working hand in glove' with the White House to do that," to noting that "the Democrats have 'the edge in this cycle' because of the historical trend for the presidential party in power to lose seats in its first midterm elections and the fact that the Republicans have 20 seats to defend this fall, versus 14 for the Democrats."
Then he zigs back, adding that "Republicans, to a large degree, have 'neutralized that advantage because of our success in recruiting better-known candidates' and because of the president's commitment to campaign heavily in several key races."
Frist insists to the Washington Times that Charles Pickering and other judicial nominees will be an issue in the fall campaign. Roll Call , on the other hand, gathers up Democratic insistence that it won't be an issue.
Anne Kornblut does her version of the White House-as-Golgi Apparatus, focusing on how the administration always seems to make sure that small but locally important decisions favor Republicans in certain states.
"[T]he administration's involvement in local concerns has not been limited to South Dakota. From Arkansas to West Virginia to Georgia, administration officials have tried to orchestrate good publicity for Republican candidates for Congress through the power of the presidency. In addition to attending numerous top-dollar fund-raisers, advisers to the White House and the Republican National Committee have weighed in on matters large and small in states and congressional districts that could prove decisive in the 2002 midterm elections, following a time-honored tradition of regional politicking established by past administrations."
There is some focus today, largely because of Bush's scheduled speech on welfare reform, on areas where the president arguably has stuck to principle — however hidden those principles may have been kept during the campaign.
Bush will offer more remarks on welfare to work as his policy excuse for campaigning in Illinois today. The Washington Times reports that the governors have signed off on the superwaiver, but "remain worried about losing flexibility elsewhere in the reform."
And, the Los Angeles Times ' Brownstein looks at the shift between Candidate Bush's soft-peddling on guns and President Bush's clearer and truer stance. "As a candidate in 2000, Bush offered a modest but tangible series of gun control proposals meant to convince voters he'd strike a reasonable balance between the interests of gun owners and the demands of public safety. But in office, his administration has focused almost entirely on gun owners' rights--most dramatically last week when the Justice Department adopted an expansive interpretation of the constitutional right to bear arms long sought by the National Rifle Assn."
On another front, certain previous occupants of the White House just aren't going away, and provide some distracting news for the White House and the press corps today.
USA Today 's Page l leads with how, after the White House went to great lengths to schedule every moment of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's recent visit, "to the dismay of White House planners, he saw an unscheduled and unexpected visitor: Bill Clinton."
"The former president, in Houston for a fundraiser and staying at the same posh hotel as the Saudi leader, headed upstairs after midnight for a private chat that had been arranged only a few hours earlier. Their 90-minute meeting didn't end until 2 a.m."
"You might think that an incumbent would see his predecessors as valuable resources, as repositories of knowledge and experience, as potential advisers and envoys. You would be wrong."
"Bush seems to have the same jaundiced view toward some of his predecessors that many previous White House occupants have held toward theirs. His aides express exasperation about Clinton's impromptu session with Abdullah two weeks ago, at a time of delicate negotiations and evolving policy. No administration official sat in on the meeting."
"And they are annoyed by former president Jimmy Carter's trip to Cuba, which began Sunday with a red-carpet reception. Bush officials see the visit … as a public-relations boon for Fidel Castro and a forum for Carter to espouse closer economic and diplomatic ties with Cuba — views that conflict with administration policy."
Here's the Miami Herald 's write-up on Carter's visit with Castro.
And, the New York tabloids basically live to make life miserable for anyone who is Senator Hillary Clinton's press secretary. (Or maybe they like this one … ?) The New York Daily News cover spotlights the possibility of the Senator on Democrats' '04 ticket.
Lots of fundraising on tap for this week.
Tuesday brings the president's appearance at the 2002 Republican National Committee's Presidential Gala at the Washington Convention Center. The RNC is hoping to match its $23.9 million intake from 2001, but they typically exceed their stated goal. Tables are $20,000 for corporations, $15,000 for PACs and individuals; tickets are $2,000 per person for corporations, $1,500 per person for PACs and individuals.
On the same night, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee will hold its annual "Taste of the States" fundraiser.
Also on Tuesday, Senator Byron Dorgan and the Senate Commerce Consumer Affairs Subcommittee will conduct a second hearing on
whether Enron manipulated energy prices in California and the West Coast in 2001.
And, Newark will hold its mayoral election between incumbent Sharpe James and surging upstart Cory Booker. Now, law enforcement trains and dispatches monitors to observe elections all the time, but these efforts rarely get New York Times coverage.
And finally on Tuesday, Bill Bradley will re-emerge into the political arena to headline two fundraisers in a certain media market: one in Brookline, MA for Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who is running for governor of Massachusetts, and one for New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate Mark Fernald in Londonderry, NH.
On Wednesday, Bush will make remarks at the 21st Annual Peace Officers Association conference.
Also on Wednesday, financial disclosure forms due for White House, House and Senate staffers.
Thursday, Bush will attend the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast, then make remarks at the gold medal ceremony honoring President Reagan at the US Capitol; former First Lady Nancy Reagan will be present to accept the award.
Also on Thursday, Vice President Dick Cheney will headline a fundraiser for the Republican House campaign committee at Mayor Mike Bloomberg's crib in New York. As we reported previously, tickets are being sold for a roundtable, a luncheon, and a package deal that includes a photo op. Roll Call reports that the committee hopes to raise about $1.5 million.
The story gets into the Mayor's contributing habits. "Bloomberg's participation in the two Republican fundraisers is part of what some GOP insiders describe as a broader effort by the multibillionaire business tycoon-turned-politician to beef up his ties to the Republican Party establishment."
Thursday night, Cheney will headline the New York Conservative Party dinner.
On Friday, Bush will meet with Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek of Slovenia to talk about Slovenia's aspirations to join Euro-Atlantic institutions.
Two bullets of foreign news to tell you about today:
First, the Washington Times ' Gertz reports, amidst some reason for doubt, that "Islamic terrorists are planning an attack against a U.S. nuclear power plant to coincide with the July 4 celebrations, U.S. intelligence sources say. U.S. officials are taking the threat seriously, though they say it is not necessarily wholly reliable."
And the Washington Post reports, "Senior U.S. officials have been stepping up discussions with Iraqi opposition groups, including several newly prominent in U.S. thinking, as the Bush administration proceeds with plans for toppling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein."
"But even as it expands its contacts with Iraqi exiles, the administration is deeply divided over which groups to court and how helpful they could be in any move against Hussein."
"Military planners are looking at a possible invasion of Iraq that could involve several roles for the Iraqi opposition … Administration planners are also exploring the option of encouraging elements of the Iraqi military to mutiny against Hussein, with U.S. military assistance, sources said."
Score one for the plumbers: the Foggy Bottom folks managing negotiations with Russia managed to keep this one secret. As he headed for Marine One at 8:25 am, the president announced that the United States and Russia have agreed to the framework for a nuclear arms reduction treaty. "This treaty will liquidate the legacy of the Cold War," Bush said. Weapon caches would be drawn down to between 1,700 and 2,200 warheads. Bush will sign the treaty when he visits Moscow on May 24.
From the ABCNEWS London Bureau: Palestinian leader Arafat is touring West Bank towns — the first time he has been outside Ramallah since being confined there by the Israelis in December. On his first stop in Bethlehem, Arafat visited the Church of the Nativity, where he delivered a message of solidarity with the Christian community. Arafat's tour also takes him to Nablus and Jenin, the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in Israel's recent military incursion in the West Bank. The Palestinian leader is traveling in a Jordanian air force helicopter after his own aircraft were destroyed in Israeli air strikes.
Israeli Prime Minister Sharon has suffered a major setback at the hands of his Likud party with a vote to tie his hands in future peace negotiations. Against the express wishes of Sharon and his supporters, the 2,500-strong Likud party central committee voted on a resolution declaring that the party would never support the creation of a Palestinian state. This is a major defeat for Sharon who, in the past, has publicly acknowledged the possibility of a Palestinian state. Although it's a slap in the face for him, there are questions about how binding this vote will be. Some of his supporters have been suggesting that as head of a coalition government, Sharon must continue to negotiate in the interests of the whole state of Israel, not just according to one party's view.
Trade Politics
The trade promotion authority/fast track bill isn't even out of the Senate, The Wall Street Journal says (A4), and already Big Business is opposing many of the added worker protection provisions as going too far, while Big Labor is attacking them as not going far enough. The administration already has compromised on a bunch of stuff, and the Senate version actually has the country's first-ever wage insurance program.
ABC 2004: The Invisible Primary
According to a sharp-eyed source, camps who had representation at the Democratic state chairs meeting in Asheville, NC this past weekend: Kerry, Lieberman, and Gephardt, plus Senator John Edwards representing himself. Camp who had no visible representation in Asheville: Gore.
Complete with photo (note the multi-hued hair on both of them), Dick Gephardt makes the New York Times business section as part of a profile of the "new Mike Ovitz," Jeffrey E. Kwatinetz. We particularly like
Gephardt's analysis of Kwatinetz being like Ovitz.
Al Gore is in New York today for a dinner with Gore 2000 supporters at Robert Zimmerman's house.
Also today, Edwards will stump at the Galivants Ferry Stump Meeting in the likely key presidential nominating state of South Carolina, while Vermont Gov. Howard Dean will hold a press conference on conservation and raise money for Rep. Jim Maloney, one of the party's more vulnerable incumbents this year, in Southbury, CT.
As noted above, on Tuesday, Bill Bradley will headline two fundraisers in a certain media market: one in Brookline, MA for Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who is running for governor of Massachusetts, and one for New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate Mark Fernald in Londonderry, NH.
On Wednesday, the Democratic legislative campaign committee will hold a fundraiser for the Iowa Democratic party in DC. Expect major '04 attendance.
On Friday, Dean will address the Gill Foundation Outgiving Conference in San Francisco.
On Sunday, Al and Tipper Gore will celebrate their 32nd wedding anniversary, and Senator Joseph Lieberman will hold a PAC fundraiser in Milwaukee.
On Wednesday the 29th, Lieberman and the Democratic Leadership Council will host a forum on "The Battle for Latino Voters" in Los Angeles.
The Washington Post 's Kamen puts Daschle at Chef Geoff's with Norman Ornstein last Friday afternoon and reads more into that than even the Note is inclined to see, at least until Ornstein calls to offer details.
There is a real possibility that the Republican Party could hold its national nominating convention in early September 2004, ending just before the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, Republican leaders say. GOP officials say there's little opposition among planners and strategists to holding the event just after Labor Day, though a final decision on dates hasn't been made. They concede that such a decision would have consequences on presidential debates, general election fundraising, and political momentum.
Campaign Finance
Tom Daschle has offered up his pick for the latest vacancy on the Federal Election Commission, but even if Bush makes the nomination, it's not clear if or when she will be confirmed. Roll Call 's story also notes that on Wednesday, "Democracy 21, a pro-McCain-Feingold group that has formed a task force to study the FEC, will release a 120-page report titled 'No Bark, No Bite, No Point,' which will chronicle the 'long-standing problems and failures' of the FEC "in effectively carrying out its enforcement responsibilities,' according to a press release from the group."
Politics
It is a political fact of life for the foreseeable future that Democrats have less money to spend directly on campaigns than do Republicans in most cases. (A big caveat, though, is spending by Democrat-allied interest groups, such as labor.)
One of the exceptions over the last few cycles has been at the Senate campaign committee level, where the Democrats have built a fundraising machine that has kept it even with, or ahead of the GOP. In this year's competitive races, the combined spending of the national party, the state parties, and the candidates in every case will leave the Democrats on pretty equal footing, Senate-wise.
Few if any Democrats will lose their Senate races this year because they were badly outspent. That is not the case on either the gubernatorial or the House fronts.
Into this environment comes the most interesting ad wars of the 2002 cycle. As has already been Noted, the Republican Senate committee has run some positive and negative spots on behalf of their candidates, often featuring President Bush. The latest round of NRSC ads includes Iowa and New Hampshire.
And Democrats have begun running their own ads, including a relentlessly negative one up in Oregon now.
Democrats are playing toward the middle for 2002, asking Independent Senator Jim Jeffords to
go stump on behalf of Senate Democrats in tight races this year, and (finally) hiring McCain strategist and former Republican John Weaver onto the party's House campaign committee payroll.
"Jeffords has already done events in Minnesota and Michigan and will be hitting the road soon for Senator Jean Carnahan (D-Mo.), Texas Senate candidate Ron Kirk (D) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee."
Those of you glued to the Cianci trial no doubt are combing through the ProJo and Boston paper websites every day, but don't forget the national mags. Cianci gave an interview to Time's Karen Tumulty last Thursday night, in which he claimed, among other can't miss lines, that his lawyer "'ripped through the main witness against me like a chainsaw going through a piece of wood'" — which is why Cianci can't understand why Jim Traficant chose to represent himself.
In what could be one of the oddest political sightings of all time, former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker turned up at a Harvard event in Beijing over the weekend and got fingered by ABC's intrepid Josh Gerstein.
Illinois
The local papers don't do much with Bush's visit, so we'll move on. But not before pointing to this excellent HPIA (holding powerful interests accountable) article in the Chicago Sun-Times, about a lawmaker who stands to gain financially from the decisions of a state toll board whose policies she frequently criticizes.
California
Rudy Giuliani and former Secretary of State George Schultz will appear with GOP gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon tonight in Burbank to trumpet the formation of Simon's policy advisery council. We'll look for affiliate picture.
Something big is going on with the energy issue and California politics. Democrats argue that the latest disclosures will work to Gov. Gray Davis' advantage. Republicans say that Davis can't win on this issue, and all the headlines will be bad for him.
Part of the reason (but only part of the reason) why Davis has a negative image among so many East Coast political elites is because of the impression they hold of him as a bloodless fundraising machine.
Check out this Sunday Los Angeles Times story about Davis allegedly hitting up the state teachers' union for $1 million right in the state Capitol (perfectly legal, but unseemly to some). Students of Garry South non-denials will enjoy the narrative flow.
And here's another one: the San Francisco Chronicle got a hold of fundraising letter to Berkeley College Democrats, promising them face time with the Guv-nah "for a mere $100."
The other white meat in California is also palpable to the opposing party: the Oracle contract-versy and its potential repercussions for Mr. Davis. There may be more revelations coming.
"In the early 1990s, California changed the way it bought information technology in an attempt to become more nimble and efficient. Senator Richard Polanco, D-Los Angeles, wrote a bill in 1993 that created a California 'multiple award schedule' — basically, a list of pre-screened vendors that state agencies could go to without a time-consuming and unwieldy competitive bid. CMAS, as it's known, has taken off. And today, it is at the heart of a system that many say has fallen prey to abuse by insiders using their government contacts to tap into the lucrative state market without competitive bidding."
This summer, when the state legislature convenes to decide how to cut billions from the state budget, Davis's political clout will face its toughest test. As he looks to make sure core Democrats turn out in his favor, he will have to find ways to cut state services without alienating the unions who benefit from them.
The Bee's Walters today decries the "cheapskate liberals" who dominate the legislature.
Florida
As we reported last month, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris is raising an enormous amount of money for a House race that should, in theory, be as easy to win as an earmark at an Appropriations Committee hearing these days. But hey, if you're a national figure and folks are willing to give you money, take it.
The Orlando Sentinel's Silva looks at Harris' out-of-state fundraising totals (truth be told, they're not that outré), and smartly finds his way to a solicitation letter from House Speaker Dennis Hastert on her behalf, "warning that a college classmate of Bill and Hillary Clinton is challenging Harris in the congressional campaign."
That guilt by association tactic is almost as brazen as Silva's, who makes sure to mention that lots of people "including oilmen in Texas," have given Harris money.
This opinion column gives a good idea of what types of charges Democratic nominee TBD is likely to lob at Gov. Jeb Bush in the fall.
Iowa
The Des Moines Register looks at GOP Rep. Tom Latham's primary challenger, a Republican running to his left.
Gubernatorial candidate David Yepsen (a guy can dream, can't he?) offers his agenda to de-derail Iowa's economy.
South Carolina
The State rounds up the TV ad wars in the crowded Republican gubernatorial primary.
Tennessee
Paula Wade overviews the state's most competitive governor's race (and primary) since 1974.
Minnesota
Decision day in Minnesota for Rep. Bill Luther, a Democrat who has been redistricted into the seat held now by freshman GOP Rep. Mark Kennedy. Luther will say today whether he'll seek re-election there, or perhaps in another district, or just plain retire.
West Virginia
Democrats will choose tomorrow whether Margaret Workman and Jim Humphreys will have the honor of taking on vulnerable freshman GOP Rep. Shelley Moore Capito in the state's 2nd Congressional District.
Bush Administration Strategy/Personality
First Lady Laura Bush leaves today for Europe. We'll be interested to see how the EU press treats Mrs. Bush and her mostly out of the news daughter.
-- 10:20 am, President Bush makes remarks on welfare-to-work, Chicago
-- 11:30 am, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld holds joint media availability with Indonesian Defense Minister
-- 12 noon, President Bush attends fundraiser for GOP gubernatorial nominee Jim Ryan, Chicago
-- 12:30 pm, Pentagon spokeswoman Clarke and Gen. Rosa conduct daily Pentagon briefing
-- 12:30 pm, King Abdullah of Jordan addresses the Brookings Institution, St. Regis Hotel, DC
-- 12:30 pm, State Department briefing
-- 3:00 pm, Senate meets to debate trade legislation
-- 4:20 pm, President Bush arrives back at the White House
-- 8:00 pm, homeland security chief Ridge makes remarks at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, DC
-- 9:00 pm, Rudy Giuliani and former US Secretary of State George Schultz campaign with California gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon, Burbank, CA
--10:30 p.m., Giuliani speaks at Kodak Theatre, Hollywood
Newly listed events are italicized.
-- May 14: Republican National Committee Presidential Gala, with President Bush, Washington Convention Center
-- May 14: Bill Bradley campaigns for NH gubernatorial candidate Mark Fernald, Londonderry, NH
-- May 14: Newark mayoral election -- May 14: Bill Bradley campaigns for Mass. gubernatorial candidate Robert Reich, Brookline, Mass.
-- May 14: Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee "Taste of the States" fundraiser, DC
-- May 15: Financial disclosure forms due for White House, House and Senate staffers.
-- May 15: Nebraska Primary -- May 15: 92 Street Y Forum: How To Move Into the White House—Without the Supreme Court. -- May 15: DLCC fundraiser for Iowa Democratic Party, with major '04 prospects in attendance, DC
-- May 16: Vice President Dick Cheney headlines GOP fundraiser for NY Gov. George Pataki, NYC
-- May 16: National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast, DC
-- May 16: former President and Nancy Reagan to receive the Congressional Gold Medal (Mrs.Reagan to accept), DC
-- May 17: Vermont Gov. Howard Dean speaks to Gill Foundation Outgiving Conference, San Francisco
-- May 17: President Bush meets with Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek of Slovenia
-- May 18: Attorney General John Ascroft speaks at University of Missouri Law School
-- May 18: Sen. Patty Murray (D) keynotes Arkansas Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, Little Rock
-- May 19: Al and Tipper Gore's 32nd wedding anniversary
-- May 19: Sen. Joseph Lieberman holds PAC fundraiser, Milwaukee
-- May 20: Florida Democrats Jefferson-Jackson dinner, speaker TBD
-- May 20: Sen. Joseph Lieberman speaks to Detroit Economic Club
-- May 21: Pennsylvania primary (Democratic primary for governor)
-- May 21: Lynne Cheney appears on ABC's "This View" -- May 21: New Democrat Network spring political conference
--May 21: Former Vice President Al Gore holds PAC fundraiser, DC
-- May 22-23: New York Democratic party convention, Sheraton New York, NYC
-- May 22-23: President and Mrs. Bush visit Berlin
--May 22: AFL-CIO members expected to ratify increased dues levy for political purposes, New York, NY
-- May 22: Democratic National Convention site selection committee meets to decide on possible sites and a site visit schedule, DC
-- May 23-25: President and Mrs. Bush visit Moscow
-- May 24: signature deadline for some California ballot initiatives
-- May 25: signature deadline for Oregon ballot initiatives
-- May 27--30: U.S. Senate/U.S. House not in session
-- May 27: Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd's birthday
-- May 28: South Dakota pre-primary financial disclosure forms due
-- May 28: President Bush attends NATO Summit, Italy
-- May 28-29: New York GOP Convention (Gov. George Pataki's formal renomination) -- May 29: Sen. Joe Lieberman and the Democratic Leadership Council host forum on "The Battle for Latino Voters," Los Angeles
-- May 31: Tipper Gore fundraises for New Hampshire Democratic Party, Concord
-- June 1: New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention, St. Anslem's college.
-- June 1: Massachusetts Democratic Party State Convention
-- June 2-3: Senator Joseph Lieberman visits New Hampshire
-- July 1-5: U.S. Senate/U.S. House not in session
-- June 4: Iowa Primary
-- June 4: South Dakota Primary
-- June 4: Former Vice President Al Gore holds PAC fundraisers in San Francisco, Los Angeles
-- June 5: Former Vice President Al Gore holds fundraiser for NH Sen. candidate Jeanne Shaheen, Los Angeles
-- June 7: President Rudolf Schuster of the Slovak Republic visits Washington
-- June 7: Vermont Gov. Howard Dean gives commencement speech at University of Michigan medical school
-- June 7: Vermont Gov. Howard Dean keynotes Michigan House Democratic Caucus reception
-- June 7-8: Wisconsin State Democratic Party convention
-- June 8: Al Gore addresses Wisc. Dem. Convention
-- June 8: Vermont Gov. Howard Dean gives commencement speech at Dartmouth medical school, NH
-- June 8: Sen. Patty Murray keynotes Tennessee Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, Nashville
-- June 10: North Carolina Senator John Edwards' birthday.
-- June 11: Vermont Gov. Howard Dean keynotes Clinton County, NY Salute to Labor Committee celebration.
-- June 14: North Carolina Senator John Edwards speaks to Iowa Democratic Party Hall of Fame, Polk County, IA -- June 14-18: U.S. Conference of Mayors meets in Madison, Wisconsin
-- June 15-16: Iowa Democratic Party state convention
-- June 13-15: Texas Democratic party convention, El Paso
-- June 21: N.C. Sen. John Edwards celebrates Flag Day in New Hampshire
-- June 22: N.C. Sen. John Edwards attends Merrimack County Annual Pig Roast
-- June 27: Rep. Jim Traficant's sentencing scheduled to take place
-- June 23-25: Election Law Summit, Washington, D.C.
-- June 25-30: National Conference of Lieutenant Governors annual meeting, St. Croix, Virgin Islands
-- June 27-30: Southern Republican Leadership Conference, Charlotte
-- July 3-7: Libertarian Party National Convention, Indianapolis
-- July 4: WMUR Statehouse reporter Scott Spradling to wed.
-- July 5: last day for Washington state ballot measures to be presented
-- July 6: President Bush's birthday.
-- July 9-12: Northwest Regional Election Conference, Portland, Oregon
-- July 13: Sen. Joe Lieberman keynotes Louisiana Democrats' Jefferson-Jackson dinner
-- July 15: New York periodic disclosure forms due
-- July 18-21: Green Party of the United States annual convention, Philadelphia
-- July 20-24: American Trial Lawyers Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta
-- July 26-30: National Association of Secretaries of State annual meeting, Providence, Rhode Island
-- July 28: Bill Bradley's birthday.
-- Aug. 6: Michigan primary (Democratic primary for governor)
-- Aug. 7: last day for Ohio ballot measures to be presented
-- Aug. 8-11: Democratic National Committee meets, Las Vegas
-- Aug. 14: Lynne Cheney's birthday.
-- Aug. 19: Bill Clinton's birthday.
-- Aug 19: Tipper Gore's birthday.
-- Aug. 20: Georgia primaries
-- Aug 26: Jury selection begins in John Walker Lindh trial
-- Sept. 10: Florida, New Hampshire, and New York primaries (Florida: Democratic primary for governor; New Hampshire: Republican primary for Senate and primaries on both sides for governor; New York: Democratic primary for governor)
-- Sept. 17: Massachusetts primary (Democratic primary for governor)
-- Sept. 30: Jury selection begins for trial of Zacarias Moussaoui
-- Sept. 30: Discovery ends in McCain-Feingold lawsuit (tentative).
-- Oct. 4: Al Sharpton's birthday.
-- Oct. 15 (tentative): Zacarias Moussaoui trial begins
-- October 26: New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's birthday
-- Nov. 4: Laura Bush's birthday
-- Nov. 4: Deadline for opening briefs, McCain-Feingold lawsuit (tentative).
-- Nov. 5: Election Day
-- Nov. 17: Vermont Governor Howard Dean's birthday.
-- Nov. 18: Deadline for opposition briefs, McCain-Feingold lawsuit (tentative).
-- Nov. 20: Delaware Senator. Joseph Biden's birthday
-- Dec. 4: Oral arguments begun in McCain-Feingold lawsuit. (tentative)
-- Dec. 9: South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle's birthday
-- Dec. 11: Massachusetts Senator John Kerry's birthday
-- Dec. 13: Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack's birthday
-- Dec. 26: California Governor. Gray Davis's birthday
-- Jan. 30, 2003: Vice President Dick Cheney's birthday
-- Jan. 31, 2003: Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt's birthday
-- Feb. 24, 2003: Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman's birthday
-- March 11, 2003: Georgia Governor Roy Barnes's birthday
-- March 31, 2003: Al Gore's birthday
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