Wednesday, July 07, 1999
Impeachment managers go on Internet to 'fight back'
Goals include aiding conservatives online
BY TOM SQUITIERI
USA Today
WASHINGTON — The 13 House members who served as prosecutors in the impeachment trial of President Clinton, including Steve Chabot, R-Cincinnati, have established their own Web site and political action committee to raise money for themselves and other Republicans targeted by Clinton supporters.
An initial goal of the “House Managers PAC” is to develop a base of at least 500,000 people who will provide contributions and volunteer support for Republican candidates across the United States.
“It's an online, grass-roots organization designed to harvest thousands and thousands of e-mail addresses to help conservatives be organized online,” said Mark Emerson, chief of staff for Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah.
The decision to create the PAC and Web site came days after the Senate voted Feb. 12 to acquit Mr. Clinton and it was reported that the president intended to seek revenge on the House managers.
“I said, "Let's get organized and fight back,'” said Mr. Cannon, one of the 13 GOP members of the House Judiciary Committee who managed the impeachment case against Mr. Clinton.
The House Managers PAC was organized in March, but it is just now gearing up. It has not yet collected contributions.
“This PAC has been established in response to the attacks of the Clinton White House and to assist candidates who support the rule of law,” according to the Web page www.housemanagers2000.org.
Many of the House managers are well on their way to raising record amounts of money for their 2000 re-election campaigns.
For example, Rep. James Rogan, R-Calif., has raised more than $1 million in the first six months of this year, largely through a national direct-mail campaign that touted his high-profile role as an impeachment manager, his office says. That compares to $885,051 Mr. Rogan raised in all of 1998, when he narrowly won re-election.
Heat staggers Midwest, East
Highway gets too-early test
Impeachment managers go on Internet to 'fight back'
Separatist group has P.O. box here
Term limits start a candidate flood
Cable access producers head to town
County: 1 weather warning system
Grants for 'innovative' Mill Creek solutions
Passers-by help save driver of fruit truck on AA Highway
RSViP Club a hot ticket
Car fire, homicide mystify police
Covington police project credited with 14% drop in major crime
Donkeys captivate with charm
Girl, 3, stable after near drowning
High-tech fire trucks debut
Jailed mom rejects move
Jurors want Rogers to die
McConnell will steer Bush's Ky. bandwagon
Money short, but enthusiasm high for Green Township park
Residents voice concerns over proposed connector
School building boom is summer assignment in Warren County
Talawanda readies funding plan
Vote delayed on bids to tear down City Centre
Annexation paves way for upscale development
Cab co. got off easy, spurned customer says
Florence golfers shine in Special Olympics
Killer sentenced to death
Landlord admits bias against blacks
Lockland chief on trial
Winburn proposes gun-victim law
GET TO IT
TRISTATE DIGEST
