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Washington’s Political Action Committee moneymen love some members of Virginia’s congressional delegation, and with apparent good reason.
When these special interest bankrollers have a cause which needs a vote, the PAC money machines crank out hefty campaign contributions and many of our pliant lawmakers obligingly jump through the legislative hoops held aloft for them by the interest's lobbyists.
Whether or not there is a cause-effect relationship between the jingle and the jump cannot, of course, be proven.
The result, however, is the same as if there were. The congressman gets the PAC bucks and the PAC gets the congressman's vote.
A pair of House votes earlier this month is a case in point.
At the same time, reports on file with the Federal Elections Commission document the high esteem in which certain Old Dominion lawmakers are held by the concerned lobbying interest.
According to FEC records, as reported in the Dec. 11 issue of National Journal, five of 25 congressmen in the entire nation who received the top-dollar contributions front the American Medical Association and the American Dental Association were front Virginia. These contributions covered the 1980 and 1982 elections.
Rep. Paul S. Trible (R1st). received $22,400, Thomas Bliley (R-3rd), $20,400. Robert Daniel (R4th). $20,750, Stanford
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