POLITICAL MONEY

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HR CLINTON GOT CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION FROM SCIENTIST WHO SAID BLACKS
WEREN'T AS SMART AS EUROPEANS; TWO DAYS LATER HELPED EARMARK $900K FOR
HIS LAB

JIM MCELHATTON, WASH TIMES - Lawmakers, including Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton, have taken thousands in campaign cash from an embattled
Nobel-prize winning scientist while earmarking federal money for his New
York lab. Mrs. Clinton and Sen. Charles E. Schumer, also a New York
Democrat, requested a $900,000 earmark in June for the Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory, where James D. Watson served as chancellor before
resigning last week after apologizing for comments that suggested that
people descending from Africa aren't as intelligent as those from
Europe.

Federal campaign filings show that Mr. Watson has donated more than
$70,000 to candidates and their political causes, including a total of
$3,000 to Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign on May 17 and June 25.
Two days later, a Senate committee report showed that Mrs. Clinton and
Mr. Schumer earmarked $900,000 for the lab.

The majority of Mr. Watson's donations over the years have gone to Sen.
Tom Harkin, Iowa Democrat, who has received more than $30,000 from the
scientist, records show. Mr. Harkin is chairman of the Senate
Appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, human services and
education.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20071030/NATION/110300060/1002

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GIULIANI STILL WORKING AT FIRM HE PROMISED TO LEAVE

JOHN SOLOMON, WASHINGTON POST - Ten months into his presidential bid,
Rudolph W. Giuliani continues to work part time at the security
consulting firm he promised to leave this past spring to focus on his
pursuit of the Republican nomination.
Giuliani's continuing involvement with a firm catering to corporate
clients makes him unique among Republican contenders. It also
complicates the task of separating his firm's assets from his campaign
spending.
 
Rudolph W. Giuliani said in April that he would leave his consulting
firm to concentrate on his campaign. Several of the firm's employees do
volunteer work for his campaign. And Giuliani did not decide until
mid-June, six months after he entered the race, to bill his campaign for
the cost of the security detail traveling with him on campaign trips;
before then, the firm paid the expense. . . Last year, Giuliani earned
about $4.1 million.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/
2007/10/29/AR2007102902006.html


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