Thursday, September 30, 1999
Ex-staffers: Bauer, aide too chummy
BY DOUGLAS KIKER
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer denied allegations Wednesday by two former campaign staffers — one now allied with rival Steve Forbes — that he had an “inappropriate” relationship with a female aide.
“I have not had any physical contact with anyone in my campaign or out of my campaign other than my wife,” Mr. Bauer, a Newport native, said at a news conference. He was surrounded by his wife and three children.
Charlie Jarvis, an unpaid consultant to the Forbes campaign and Mr. Bauer's former national campaign chairman, told the Associated Press on Wednesday that he had warned Mr. Bauer he was spending too much time with his deputy campaign manager and it created a bad appearance.
“People have confronted Gary about the appearance of impropriety,” said Mr. Jarvis. “I did it a number of times. ... I warned him in the clearest terms.”
Mr. Jarvis made no specific allegations beyond Mr. Bauer's spending “hours and hours and hours behind closed doors with a young single woman” — something he thought was “inappropriate.”
Tim MacDonald, another former Bauer campaign aide, also said he expressed concern to Mr. Bauer about the time he was spending with the aide. He said the candidate assured him there was no sexual relationship.
“I didn't think there was and I believed him,” Mr. MacDonald said.
At his news conference, Mr. Bauer called the allegations “trash can politics at its worst.”
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