David Brock Quotes
From 1994 to 1996, I turned over every rock in Little Rock, looking for a silver bullet that would take down the Clintons in time for the 1996 election.
Brock, David. Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative. Crown, 2002.
The Republican Majority of the House, when Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State, was running for President, established a select committee to investigate an incident that occurred in the State Department during Clinton's term. However, there already had been both House and Senate hearings and numerous investigations of the same incident. This committee uniquely was established with no deadlines to finish their work and an unlimited budget. Soon it became clear that the focus of the Republican efforts was on Mrs. Clinton and not on State Department activities except as how they might be negative to Clinton. Even leading Republicans admitted that the majority had abused its Congressional power to investigate to achieve primarily partisan advantage. See {582958} for Hanna's later statement when he incurred the ire of some of the Republicans for his admitting the truth.
Dudley acknowledged a letter but claimed this version with the instructions for bribery was a forgery.
Sinclair was a writer who had written about some of the worst scandals in American politics, leaned toward socialized democracy, and decided to run as a reform candidate in California where he lived. He won the Democratic primary easily even though he had no money, political experience, or backing. He terrified the Republicans who ran one of the dirtiest campaigns in American History (see {619613}) to defeat him spending more money than in any election up to then including the Presidential elections. Sinclair lost, but it was close.
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David Brock is an American liberal political consultant, author, and commentator who founded the media watchdog group Media Matters for America. He has been described by Time as "one of the most influential operatives in the Democratic Party".
