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Gilbert Gutknecht: a lot of our friends on the left today and in the past several weeks have been talking about campaign finance reform. I…

On the recordNovember 13, 1997
a lot of our friends on the left today and in the past several weeks have been talking about campaign finance reform. I wonder if any of them sees the great irony in the administration's sense of curiosity. On the one hand, White House political operatives seem to have such an extraordinarily developed sense of curiosity that they miraculously ended up with 900 confidential FBI files on their political enemies. But on the other hand, the White House seems to have little curiosity about the possibility that John Huang might have seriously compromised national security while working for the Commerce Department in his capacity, apparently, as foreign fundraiser-in-chief. What is even more remarkable that every single Democratic Senator, with one exception, investigating some of these events seems to have a lack of curiosity about exactly how much money the liberal group was able to funnel into the 1996 Presidential campaign. Maybe all of this curiosity is entwined with some of these folks having attended some of these White House coffees. Maybe there is something in the coffee that makes them curious on the one hand, but then lose their curiosity on something else, and maybe that is something that should be investigated as well.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota

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Discussing campaign finance reform and alleged misconduct related to the 1996 Presidential campaign.

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