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=<div class="entry-content" style="font-size: small; margin: 5px 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Former GOP presidential nominee Bob Dole has signed up another foreign client, according to a Justice Department filing made Wednesday.Dole, who is special counsel at the law and lobbying shop <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000021817" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Alston & Bird</a>, is dipping his toe back into the troubled waters of the Balkans: He’ll be representing the <a href="https://www.fara.gov/docs/5549-Short-Form-20170315-30.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">foreign ministry of Kosovo</a>, providing strategic consulting “in connection with deepening and expanding Kosovo’s bilateral relations and relations with international institutions, assisting in security and economic development initiatives, and fostering enhanced foreign direct investment and trade opportunities.”What that means exactly is unclear. But Dole is an <a href="https://twitter.com/vloracitaku/status/809834650847821824" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">old friend</a> of Kosovo, having advocated for U.S. intervention on its behalf during its war with neighboring Serbia in the late 1990s and <a href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,21018,00.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">flying to Pristina</a> in 1999 to convince ethnic Albanians there to sign a peace deal. Dole has been registered to lobby for Kosovo in the past, but not since the early 2000s; the nation has other representatives on the payroll in Washington.But things are getting hot again in that part of the world. A recent decision by Kosovo to appropriate all immovable property previously belonging to the former Yugoslavia or Serbia didn’t help. The country’s leaders were ordered this month to continue European Union-facilitated talks aimed at <a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/news/security-group-calls-on-kosovo-to-continue-talks-with-serbia/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">normalizing relations</a> with the Serbs. But that’s a tall order, and Kosovo has announced it will transform its security force, which doesn’t have much heft, into an army, which doesn’t bode well for continued (relative) peace in the region.The U.S. ambassador in Kosovo <a href="https://inserbia.info/today/2017/03/us-ambassador-in-pristina-end-kosovo-army-initiative-or-face-potential-consequences/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">reportedly has warned</a> authorities there against the militarization.Serbia is one of the few nations that has refused to recognize Kosovo’s independence, declared in 2008.Kosovo may have been drawn back to Dole by his well-publicized success acting on behalf of Taiwan, culminating in an <a href="https://www.fara.gov/docs/5549-Short-Form-20170315-30.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">unorthodox call</a> between President-elect Donald Trump and the Taiwanese president last fall. The phone call stirred up controversy about its break from decades of diplomacy based on the U.S.’s “One China” policy, and China’s main daily newspaper put an angry editorial about the event on its front page. Dole received $140,000 from May to October for his work.<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3519178-5549-Short-Form-20170313-26.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Also on the Kosovo account</a> for Alston & Bird is <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Jones%2C%20Robert%20C&id=Y0000041676L&year=2016" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Robert C. Jones</a>, the head of the firm’s lobbying shop and a former counsel to the Senate Appropriations Committee.Other than his work for Taiwan, Dole, who was a Republican House member and then senator from Kansas from 1961 until his resignation in 1996, has been light on foreign clients in recent years. One exception (cue the conspiracy drums): the <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3304368-5549-Supplemental-Statement-20150529-23.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Russian Federation</a>, which he represented in 2014 through a contract with Ketchum, the public relations firm long used by Russia. He was paid $15,000 for that work.<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/bob-dole-signs-up-another-foreign-client/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"> https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/bob-dole-signs-up-another-foreign-client/</a></div><footer class="entry-meta" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 15px;">
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gee, i was getting nostalgic for old bob:

In the following pages, our writers explain how tobacco executives plan to win the game once more. For them, it is a time of legal danger and political opportunity. No industry has a bigger investment or more at stake in the fall elections. Big Tobacco's covert operatives and cash are hard at work in the state capitals and on the campaign trail. Here is the strategy:

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<li>Win the presidency. As Sheila Kaplan reports, many of Bob Dole's key political operatives as well as some of his largest contributions come from tobacco lobbies (see <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1996/05/tobacco-dole">The Campaign for the Presidency</a> [1]). In return, Dole will continue his policy of protecting the industry financially and legally. He has pledged that, if elected, he will fire FDA Commissioner David Kessler, tobacco's number one enemy (see <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1996/05/tobacco-enemy-number-one">Tobacco Enemy Number One</a> [2]).</li>

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but still deserved better swansong than:

ag 21

by

Don Terry

March 04, 2013

Continuing its 50-year assault on globalism, the John Birch Society attacks a UN plan it claims will gut property rights.

A few days before the John Birch Society’s December birthday luncheon in Sacramento, Calif., the influence and obsessions of the arch-conservative group were on display thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C., not far from the Smithsonian Institution, where other relics of America’s past are housed.

On Dec. 4, Republican senators voted down a United Nations treaty that would ban discrimination against people with disabilities. They did so even though Bob Dole, the ailing elder statesman, former presidential standard-bearer, former Republican majority leader and war hero, supported the measure. Dole watched the vote on the Senate floor from his wheelchair, having recently been released from the hospital. According to The New York Times, “a majority of the Republicans who voted against the treaty, which was modeled on the Americans with Disabilities Act, said they feared it would infringe on American sovereignty.’’  splc

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<h1 style=" color: rgb(0, 91, 147); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 0.1em; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">Bush Administration Refused to Restrict Toxic Herbicide Atrazine, Despite Health Threat</h1>

<h2 style=" color: rgb(118, 162, 203); font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px;">White House documents obtained by NRDC reveal that industry influenced the decision.</h2>

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<p style=" margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.8999996185303px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The EPA decided in 2003 not to limit one of the nation's most widely used weed-killers, a chemical that, according to several recent studies, threatens human health and the environment. The October 2003 decision -- which the EPA was required to make under a court-approved consent decree reached with NRDC in 2001 -- allows Syngenta, the main manufacturer of atrazine, and other companies to continue to sell the chemical in the United States with no significant restrictions.

To determine whether industry played a role in shaping the EPA's decision, NRDC filed a series of Freedom of Information Act requests with the White House and the EPA, which failed to produce relevant documents. In November 2003, NRDC filed a lawsuit charging that the Bush White House and the agency were violating the freedom of information law by withholding documentary evidence. The following month, the White House released 22 documents, with most of their contents blacked out, including a memo from former senator Bob Dole to a high-level White House official urging the EPA not to restrict the hazardous weed-killer despite the environmental risks. The White House continued to withhold more than 80 other relevant documents. [Horkino epa head b2]

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole</a>

Robert Joseph Dole (1923- ), commonly referred to as Bob Dole is a former<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party(USA)" title="Republican Party (USA)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican</a> U.S. Senator from Kansas and senior counselor for the global <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Public_relations_firms" title="Public relations firms" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">PR firm</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/APCO_Worldwide" title="APCO Worldwide" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">APCO Worldwide</a> and special counsel in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alston%26_Bird" title="Alston & Bird" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Alston & Bird</a>'s Washington, D.C. office.

After announcing that he had teamed up with APCO Worldwide, the company President and CEO <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Margery_Kraus" title="Margery Kraus" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Margery Kraus</a> told PR Week that he would provide "some sage guidance as to how Washington works and how the administration functions." Kraus said that she had known Dole for 25 years and had worked with him in a number of projects in the preceding year.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story_free.cfm?ID=229929&site=3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">[1]</a>

On his website Dole describes his role at Alston & Bird as focusing on "international and domestic legislative, policy and regulatory affairs as well as on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Health_Care" title="Health Care" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">healthcare</a> policy and related matters." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.bobdole.org/business/?PHPSESSID=a0a2cd3d53fae451628f1dab422b3e81" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">[2]</a> APCO describe his role with them in identical terms. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.apcoworldwide.com/content/newsroom/press_releases/12_6_04.cfm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">[3]</a>

Dole also runs his own company, Bob Dole Enterprises, "a vehicle for managing his other business interests -- public speaking and television appearances, consulting, list management and writing."<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.bobdole.org/business/?PHPSESSID=a0a2cd3d53fae451628f1dab422b3e81" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">[4]</a>

Dole is also "a member of the Legislative and Public Policy Group, a group dedicated to helping clients navigate the intricacies of the laws and regulations passed by Congress, the White House and the courts."<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.apcoworldwide.com/content/newsroom/press_releases/12_6_04.cfm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">[5]</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Founding Co-Chair, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Partnership_to_Cut_Hunger_and_Poverty_in_Africa" title="Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Advisory Board, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bipartisan_Policy_Center" title="Bipartisan Policy Center" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bipartisan Policy Center</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Honorary Co-Chair, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_to_End_Hunger" title="Alliance to End Hunger" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Alliance to End Hunger</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Honorary Director, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Prostate_Cancer_Foundation" title="Prostate Cancer Foundation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Prostate Cancer Foundation</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Former Commissioner, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Commission_on_Missing_Persons" title="International Commission on Missing Persons" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">International Commission on Missing Persons</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Former Director, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/It%27s_My_Party_Too" title="It's My Party Too" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">It's My Party Too</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole#Biographical_details" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1 Biographical details</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole#Tobacco_issues" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2 Tobacco issues</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole#Books" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3 Books</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole#Contact_details" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4 Contact details</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole#Related_SourceWatch_resources" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">5 Related SourceWatch resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole#External_links" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">6 External links</a></li>

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Bob Dole has been an unabashed supporter of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tobacco_industry" title="Tobacco industry" style=" line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">tobacco industry</a> interests.

In 1986, Dole joined two senators from Connecticut in writing a letter to the Hong Kong government on behalf of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_Tobacco_Company" title="United States Tobacco Company" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Tobacco Company</a> (makers of chewing tobacco) urging Hong Kong not to ban the sale of smokeless tobacco. The letter implied that the United States might engage in trade retaliation if it did. Former Surgeon General Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/C._Everett_Koop" title="C. Everett Koop" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">C. Everett Koop</a> wrote in his memoirs, "I imagine they thought it was more important to save a Connecticut firm's profits than Asian lives."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a>

According to a Los Angeles Times article from 1996, Dole at that time had received a total of $477,000 in tobacco industry contributions and had flown 38 times aboard tobacco industry corporate jets. He had also commented that smoking is not necessarily addictive, despite the U.S. Surgeon General's report in 1988 declaring nicotine an addictive substance. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole#cite_note-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a>

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Robert Joseph Dole (born July 22, 1923) is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American</a> politician who represented <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Kansas</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Senate</a> from 1969 to 1996 and in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">House of Representatives</a> from 1961 to 1969. In the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,1976" title="United States presidential election, 1976" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1976 presidential election</a>, Dole was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican Party</a> nominee for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Vice President</a> and incumbent President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Gerald Ford</a>'s running mate. In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1996" title="United States presidential election, 1996" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">presidential election of 1996</a>, Dole was the Republican nominee for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">President</a>, unsuccessfully challenging incumbent President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bill Clinton</a>.

In 2007, President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">George W. Bush</a> appointed Dole and Secretary<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Shalala" title="Donna Shalala" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Donna Shalala</a> as co-chairs of the commission to investigate problems at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reed_Army_Medical_Center" title="Walter Reed Army Medical Center" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Walter Reed Army Medical Center</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dole#cite_note-cnn.com-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dole#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> Dole is currently a member of the advisory council of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Communism_Memorial_Foundation" title="Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation</a> and special counsel at the Washington, D.C., office of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_firm" title="Law firm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">law firm</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alston%26_Bird" title="Alston & Bird" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Alston & Bird</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dole#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a>

Dole is married to former U.S. cabinet member and former U.S. Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Dole" title="Elizabeth Dole" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Elizabeth Hanford Dole</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">North Carolina</a>.

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The Koch brothers have historically leaned on their home state Republican members of Congress for lobbying assistance. For instance, Business Week <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1996/b3469090.arc.htm">reported</a> on how Koch Industries used then-Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS) to try to suppress an investigation into Koch Industries’ massive theft of oil from Indian reservations. In another case, Koch Industries faced a $55 million civil suit for causing more than 300 oil spills over a five-year period. Again, Dole, a major recipient of Koch money and support, <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1996/b3469090.arc.htm">sponsored</a> a bill that would allow Koch to <a href="http://projects.publicintegrity.org/oil//report.aspx?aid=347">easily defend</a> itself from the oil spill charges. Investigative reporter Robert Parry <a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00156.htm">found</a> that David Koch “also helped Dole achieve majority leader status through his checkbook, contributed mightily to a Dole foundation and even turned his Gatsbyish estate in Southampton, New York, into the site for celebrating Dole’s 72nd birthday in July 1995, raising $150,000 for his campaign.”

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Move abroad, beyond the reach of U.S. regulators. Tobacco's future depends on increasing sales overseas; protecting the domestic market is an interim maneuver. As former tobacco lobbyist Victor Crawford put it, "Our job was to hold the front until they could flood the Third World." The industry persuaded Reagan and Dole to strong-arm other countries, especially in Asia, to allow the import of American cigarettes and to accept tobacco ads on TV—advertising prohibited here. Mojo 1996

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<h3 class="dek">What do Bob Dole's telemarketer, his chief California strategist, and one of his national co-chairs have in common? Big Tobacco.</h3>

—By <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/authors/sheila-kaplan" rel="author">Sheila Kaplan</a>

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Texas Attorney General Dan Morales broadcast a clear message last fall: If tobacco companies were making millions in Texas, then they could help contribute to the billions in Medicaid costs spent in Texas for smoking-related illnesses. Several other attorneys general already had filed lawsuits against the tobacco industry to recover such health care costs. But before Morales could follow their lead, half a dozen tobacco industry lobbyists visited him and delivered a private <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/push_poll.html">poll</a> from the political consulting firm Public Opinion Strategies.

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The poll, commissioned in January by the Covington & Burling law firm on behalf of the four largest tobacco firms and the industry's advocacy group, The Tobacco Institute, claimed the people of Texas wouldn't support Morales if he filed the suit. The proof? Two-thirds of the more than 800 Texans polled had said they wouldn't favor the proposed lawsuit.

But then Morales took a closer look at the poll. He discovered it was actually a "push-poll," designed not to gauge public opinion but sway it. The poll's telemarketing script began with <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/push_poll.html#1">basic, unobtrusive political questions</a>--then quickly zeroed in on Morales. "Elected officials are held to high standards in public life," the script read. "Here are some <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/push_poll.html#next">reasons</a> people are giving to vote against Dan Morales."

Among the reasons: Morales was <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/push_poll.html#24">"pro-affirmative action"</a>; he <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/push_poll.html#25">"supports gun control"</a>; and his <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/push_poll.html#26">1994 campaign contributed money</a> to Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam. (Morales' staffers had purchased two tickets to a dinner thrown by a local chapter of the Nation of Islam.) Those polled were also told that Morales' proposed lawsuit could cost thousands of jobs, prevent the attorney general from fighting crime, and reward only a few wealthy personal injury lawyers. Finally--the spin complete--those polled were asked what they thought of the suit. It's hardly surprising that they <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/push_poll.html#45">overwhelmingly opposed it</a>.

Despite its bias, the poll served its purpose: to deliver a not-so-veiled threat that, on a moment's notice, the tobacco companies could make many more such calls throughout Texas and, through strategies such as push-polling, mobilize an untold number of voters against the suit--and against Morales.

Still, Morales proceeded with the suit.

And the man who runs the polling firm, William McInturff, went back to his day job--as chief pollster for Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole.

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This particular tie between tobacco and the Dole campaign ended in February when Dole fired McInturff because of his failure to predict the majority leader's embarrassing loss to Steve Forbes in the Delaware primary--not because of his tobacco connections.

Dole and the tobacco industry share the need to win at all costs, which has forged a mutually beneficial relationship. By March, nearly every major media outlet reported the increase in Big Tobacco's contributions to the Republican Party: from $546,224 in "soft" donations in 1993 to $2.4 million in 1995. But few have investigated Dole's current ties to the industry. As one of tobacco's top congressional allies, the powerful Kansas senator has helped the industry broaden its overseas markets and battle domestic foes, such as Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler.

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Now, as Dole wages his campaign for the presidency, many of the tobacco industry's biggest hitters are whispering in his ear.

Lobbyists for businesses, trade groups, and other special interests often attach themselves to presidential campaigns, seeking future jobs and political chits. Tobacco operatives are no exception. But the sheer number of tobacco lobbyists, lawyers, and pollsters working for the Dole team sets a new standard. For example:

<li>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. Another Covington & Burling partner, Keith Teel, commissioned the push-poll used to threaten Morales, and is traveling the country trying to strong-arm other attorneys general . (see <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/stone1.html">"Our Good Friend, the Governor"</a>)</li>

<li>Paul Manafort, Dole's convention manager, was co-founder of the Washington lobbying firm Black, Manafort, Stone, and Kelly, which represents Philip Morris. Black, Manafort is a subsidiary of Burson-Marsteller, the public relations firm for Philip Morris and the headquarters for the National Smokers Alliance. Last year, Manafort launched DMS, a consulting firm in Virginia, with Rick Davis, also from Black, Manafort and a Dole convention official.</li>

<li>Tom Collamore, a Dole campaign fundraiser and assistant secretary of commerce during the Bush presidency, is vice president of corporate affairs for Philip Morris. "Mr. Collamore," confirms Philip Morris spokeswoman Darienne Dennis, "is an avid supporter of Sen. Dole, and I know that on his personal time he has done work with the Dole campaign."</li>

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Others working for Dole are less well-known within the Beltway, but play important roles in the tobacco industry's emerging national strategy. Steve Merksamer, for example, joined the Dole campaign last fall as a senior adviser and California strategist. His Sacramento law firm, Nielson, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor, has collected $1.9 million from the industry since 1988, more than any other California firm.

In 1994, Nielson, Merksamer was paid an additional $350,000 to write Proposition 188, called the Tobacco Control Act. The proposition promised tough statewide restrictions, but its language actually weakened state law by acting as a "pre-emption law" to kill dozens of tougher local restrictions throughout the state. When the media exposed Proposition 188 as a tobacco industry ploy, voters defeated it.

But the tobacco industry's behind-the-scenes maneuvers in California may well be the model for a national strategy under a Dole presidency and a Republican Congress: Defeat popular grassroots anti-smoking measures with secret legislative and executive overrides, pre-emptions, and subversions. For example, the tobacco industry is using California Gov. Pete Wilson and the Republican California Assembly to gut anti-smoking education efforts financed by the state's 25-cent-per-pack cigarette tax. Tobacco companies, in a convenient alliance with the California Medical Association, lobbied legislators to divert money out of California's anti-smoking efforts (which activists call the single greatest threat to the tobacco industry) and into low-income health care programs--effectively using financially needy programs as a cover to derail anti-smoking campaigns.

Other operatives link Dole to the tobacco industry's secretive grassroots campaign, specifically, Midwest strategist Tom Synhorst and Alaska campaign coordinator Frank Bickford, who were both field coordinators for RJR's "grassroots" efforts in the states.

Synhorst has particularly close ties to Dole. A star in the majority leader's 1988 presidential campaign, Synhorst masterminded Dole's primary win in Iowa. In between stints for Dole's two presidential campaigns, Synhorst has been a grassroots organizer for RJR. He co-founded his telemarketing firm, Direct Connect, with top RJR lobbyist Read deButts.

Direct Connect is the Dole campaign's telemarketing firm of choice, with monthly billings exceeding $60,000. Dole's former leadership PAC, Campaign America, also paid Direct Connect more than $20,000 a month last year.

Synhorst and Bickford illustrate an important aspect of the tobacco industry's survival plan: Create grassroots front groups to make pro-tobacco legislation handed down by state and national politicians appear to be the public's will. These groups, many posing as "anti-tax" organizations, are key to the tobacco industry's efforts to win over the anti-big government segment of the electorate. This is also a crucial audience for Dole, who writes in his campaign brochure's "personal message": "My mandate as President would be to rein in the Federal government in order to set free the spirit of the American people."

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.

During this presidential campaign, Dole has gone after FDA Commissioner David Kessler, promising an audience of pharmaceutical giants at a GOP fundraiser last September that Kessler would be out of a job if Dole were elected. Three months later, Dole was one of 32 senators who signed a letter to the FDA protesting its proposed crackdown on tobacco advertising. Dole also spoke out against Kessler's plans to limit cigarette advertising at sporting events. Before an appreciative crowd at a NASCAR auto race in Darlington, S.C., he waved a T-shirt that read, "Let Winston Cup make the rules for NASCAR, not the FDA."

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 $231,427.

But Bob Dole's friendship with the tobacco companies is not limited to the industry's domestic battles. With tobacco's popularity dying in the United States, companies must hook foreign populations. For this, the industry needs unfettered access to large global markets. Dole has been crucial in helping them get it.

In 1985, Reagan trade representatives focused their attention on Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, threatening retaliatory tariffs on their exports if they declined to open their tobacco markets. Tobacco lobbyists actually sat in on the official trade negotiations.

During talks with South Korea in 1987, Brown & Williamson's lobbyist, Thomas Humber (now the chief of Philip Morris' National Smokers Alliance), wrote the office of the U.S. trade representative corporate liaison Sandy Kristoff to inform her of a favorable meeting between South Korea's U.S. ambassador, Dole, Sen. Jesse Helms, and senators from four other tobacco states. According to the letter, the senators expressed "their support for fair market conditions in Korea" during the meeting. The ambassador, in return, thanked Dole and Helms for voting against threatened trade sanctions against Korea. Then, Humber wrote, "[The ambassador] assured the Senators of Ôbest efforts' toward market expansion" for U.S. tobacco companies.

Trade agreements on tobacco have shifted under Clinton. Last year, U.S. trade representatives allowed South Korea to enact tobacco advertising restrictions after approval from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency. Officials from both agencies now sit in on trade proceedings to decide whether tobacco restrictions reflect health and environmental concerns.

Under a Dole presidency, this would probably change. Helms would play a dominant role in foreign trade policy, as would Robert Lighthizer, a former top Dole aide and Dole's rumored choice for his chief of staff or U.S. trade representative. Lighthizer, currently an attorney with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, used to work for Covington & Burling and served as deputy U.S. trade representative from 1983 to 1985. During that period, the United States began bullying countries to open their tobacco markets. Should Lighthizer have a prominent trade role, he might turn back the clock to a time when tobacco lobbyists, not health officials, sat in on trade negotiations.

The GOP convention in San Diego this August promises to be even more of a tobacco-fest than the 1992 convention. Ken Rietz, president and CEO of the Washington, D.C., office of the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller, is a vice chairman of this year's convention host committee. Rietz oversaw the California chapter of the National Smokers Alliance, which worked against tobacco control ordinances in Los Angeles and San Diego.

Rietz candidly admits convention sponsors get opportunities for private meetings with political bigwigs. But he calls the high number of tobacco lobbyists involved with the convention and the Dole campaign pure coincidence. "If you look at Burson-Marsteller, [tobacco is] only one of thousands of clients," Rietz says. But of those thousands, Philip Morris and NSA sit comfortably among the firm's top five Washington clients.

As Mother Jones went to press, GOP convention plans were still being negotiated, but Philip Morris had already scored one coup, signing a letter of intent to rent the sought-after space at the San Diego Museum of Art, and was reportedly trying to book the San Diego Zoo for another event. The company has yet to decide on specific receptions but is likely to sponsor the high-profile reception for the GOP's Team 100 (party contributors who give $100,000 or more) and the reception for the Republican Governors Association.

But ultimately, if the tobacco industry achieves what it wants, these festivities will be only a warm-up. The real tobacco party will come in January, at Bob Dole's inauguration.

Sheila Kaplan is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist.

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<h1 class="title">The Tobacco Election</h1>

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—By <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/authors/jeffrey-klein" rel="author">Jeffrey Klein</a>

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Tobacco's number one target is Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler. A pediatrician appointed by President Bush, Dr. Kessler has crossed over the most dangerous line in Washington: He's committed a truth--and an obvious one at that. He's claimed that the masters of nicotine pharmacology need to be regulated because they prey upon our public health. For his crime, the tobacco industry has placed a multimillion-dollar bounty on his head. Bob Dole is the designated bounty hunter.

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The media has not only missed Dole's assignment, it has bought into the hype of the phony anti-government revolution. The press is portraying Dole as a freedom-loving, honest loner who sometimes comes across poorly because he's a man of action, not words. In other words, the Marlboro Man. Newsweek's Joe Klein expertly propagated the party line in a rundown of Clinton vs. Dole titled "Saxophone vs. Sacrifice." He writes, "Bob Dole represents qualities that seem to have vanished in the cross-fire of modern American dirtball politics: moderation, patience, a respect for tradition."

In fact, Dole is a leading agent of the most dirtball political agenda today. To the proper audiences, Dole has promised that, if elected, he will fire Dr. Kessler. He will likely place a moratorium on federal smoking regulations and defund scientists who are studying smoking or the carcinogenic effects of secondhand smoke. Dole will duplicitously claim that cigarette taxes, health issues, and public space concerns are best handled by the states.

What would be the consequences of this "moderate" agenda? Consider what happened when Senate Majority Leader Dole took a similar position on smokeless tobacco 10 years ago.

Smokeless tobacco is a healthy sounding euphemism for tobacco products like moist snuff that you chew or put between cheek and gums. Before the top smokeless tobacco company, U.S. Tobacco (now called UST), launched a deliberate campaign to hook kids, the habit was confined to older men and was fast disappearing; fewer than 2 percent of young men ages 17 and 18 chewed or "dipped" tobacco. But then U.S. Tobacco added sweet flavorings like cherry; created product lines with graduated nicotine strength; hired baseball players to flack that chewing tobacco was cool; sponsored rock concerts and rodeos; and through promotions for its starter product, "Skoal Bandits," slyly implied that chew was a cool way for teens to rebel--and one easily concealed from parents and teachers.

During the 1985 federal budget negotiations, a bipartisan bill was introduced in Congress to raise excise taxes on chewing tobacco and make it less affordable to adolescents. Dole defeated the measure (simultaneously slipping in a tobacco growers' subsidy crafted by Sen. Jesse Helms). As Common Cause magazine reported, Dole promised he would reconsider the excise tax hike if the pending surgeon general's report linked smokeless tobacco to oral cancer. The 1986 surgeon general's report did; the Kansas senator didn't. "Dole was very loyal to the smokeless tobacco industry," a former industry representative told Common Cause. "He was someone that they could rely on in Congress to derail legislation."

UST repaid Dole's loyalty with hard and soft money contributions to his subsequent campaigns; "pacesetter" donations to his charity to help the disabled; stealthy contributions to his short-lived Better America Foundation; and at least 26 subsidized rides (billed at about 5 percent of their actual cost) on UST's corporate jet. These were sound investments. The tax breaks Dole gave UST cumulatively amounted to at least $250 million.

In the decade since Dole intervened for UST, the smokeless epidemic among kids hasn't abated. Almost as many teenage boys now use chewing tobacco as cigarettes. More than half start by eighth grade. A 1992 report by then-Surgeon General Antonia Novello concluded that smokeless tobacco is more addictive than cigarettes because users start earlier and absorb twice as much nicotine. Half of all young users grow precancerous lesions in their mouths while they're still teenagers; about 5 percent of these lesions will develop into oral cancer.

Today Dr. Novello believes the favorable tax treatment given smokeless tobacco is the main reason the epidemic is spreading. "Spit tobacco is cheap, and teens are sensitive to price."

Dole's hidden work on behalf of tobacco has had an even more deleterious effect on foreign youth. Dole directly helped the tobacco industry penetrate overseas markets, particularly in Asia. Again in partnership with Jesse Helms, he quietly muscled foreign governments to allow the seductive tobacco advertising they'd previously banned. For example, Dole personally lobbied the Korean ambassador on this issue and was thanked for his help in killing a bill that would have imposed a tariff on Korean textiles. A year after American cigarettes burst into the Korean market, smoking rates among Korean teenage boys rose from 18 to 30 percent and among teenage girls from 2 to 9 percent.

The tobacco industry has created a political influence network almost Bolshevik in its secrecy. By contrast, I want to be completely open about the reform agenda we're advocating: First, any politician who takes tobacco money should be ousted. All seekers of public office should be asked to sign the bipartisan Tobacco Cash Pledge (now being circulated in Congress by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids), promising they won't ever take tobacco contributions, direct or indirect.

Our politicians don't have to punish tobacco; it would be enough if they merely kept their hands off the pending FDA and court cases. If justice prevails in these arenas, the tobacco industry will be forced to finance independent anti-smoking campaigns and pay massive reparations to cover its share of our national health bill--about $50 billion a year caused by tobacco-related illnesses.

The tobacco companies may seriously consider such a deal once their former chief executives find themselves facing jail time for the perjury they committed in 1994, when they told Rep. Henry Waxman's congressional subcommittee that they did not believe nicotine to be addictive. These executives thought they could get away with what seems like a conspiracy to defraud because they'd bought off 70 percent of the subcommittee members below Waxman and all the leadership above him.

Although the industry has dramatically shifted its financial support to the GOP Congress, many key Democrats are still in tobacco's pouch. For example, a leading Democratic recipient, Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, has secretly lobbied the White House to rein in Dr. Kessler. As of this writing, despite almost daily exposZs of the industry's malfeasance, this Congress has not held a single hearing concerning tobacco.

Dr. Kessler's imminent ruling that nicotine is a drug will up the ante for tobacco. The industry is already gearing up its disinformation campaign to label opponents un-American health nazis who want "big government" to curtail natural freedoms. But we're not calling for prohibition. Adults have a choice whether to smoke. Yet even most adult smokers want curbs on tobacco marketing so that it won't hook a new generation.

The tobacco industry knows which curbs work and which don't. The most effective anti-smoking campaigns expose Big Tobacco's cynical manipulation of a public it deems gullible. <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/qt2.html">Such ads</a> had a considerable effect in California until they were yanked from the airwaves by one of tobacco's stealth allies, Gov. Pete Wilson. He and the industry prefer finger-wagging ads that encourage adults to call an 800 number if they see youngsters buying cigarettes. The first type of campaign tells kids they're suckers if they light up; the second subtly encourages them to rebel.

The public should know if a newly contrite tobacco industry is merely suckering us again. Here's a litmus test: Any "moderate" solution that lets the tobacco industry retain political influence is unacceptable. One hundred strikes and you're out.

Should the nation's politicians prove less committed to the public health than to tobacco's dirty money, a serious reform movement should be formed drawing from both progressive and conservative ranks. Here's one idea for how it might proceed, taken from a speech titled "The New Nationalism": "It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes: It is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced."

The author of this speech was neither Jerry Brown nor Pat Buchanan; it was Teddy Roosevelt. His cousin, FDR, tempered Teddy's prosecutorial stance when he cut his New Deal with the business community. Business and government agreed to cooperate on a strategy of growth based upon a foundation of consumer protection.

If the business community wants to revoke this deal, then all original terms must be reconsidered. For example, if the National Federation of Independent Business continues to co-conspire against an FDA commissioner who is simply trying to curb the nation's number one cause of preventable disease, then the business community should be kept away from electoral politics altogether.

A campaign finance reform this sober will require leading politicians to take brave steps. In the meantime, if Bob Dole wants to campaign as a heroic Republican calling on individuals to take more personal responsibility for their actions, he should say to the country: "I now realize my mistake in aiding the tobacco industry. From this day on, I'll take no more of their money. If elected, I vow to support Dr. Kessler in his quest to keep addictive nicotine away from our youth."

Only when Bob Dole accepts so elementary a responsibility will he have the moral right to seek the bully pulpit.

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