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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, February 17, 2000
Nation/World
Republicans fight to primary finish
Polls put McCain Bush in dead heat
The Associated Press
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Pushing toward Saturday's primary, Sen. John McCain won endorsements yesterday from former rival
Gary Bauer and a California official switching from George W. Bush. In the meantime, the Texas governor has laid plans for a fresh round of fund raising after running through $50 million.
While McCain crowed about gathering enthusiasm, Bush rebuffed suggestions that he had too little to show for his money, saying he was already campaigning in every state.
McCain: received endorsement from Gary Bauer
Bush was sharply criticized by one of his numerous congressional supporters, Rep. Peter King of New York, who said the governor offended him as a Catholic by speaking at Bob Jones University, controversial for anti-Catholic and racial remarks by past president Bob Jones Jr.
Polls put Bush and McCain in a dead heat just days before the Important Republican primary in South Carolina.
Bauer, who quit the race two weeks ago, announced his support for McCain at a rally at Furman University. He said McCain was the Republican party's best shot at winning the White House.
Bauer, who was an adviser to President Reagan and whose own campaign focused largely on opposing abortion, is an important force in the competition for social conservatives' votes. Bush has sent repeated mailings to social and religious conservatives questioning McCain's commitment to opposing abortion.
"There's been so much doubt raised about my commitment to some of these issues." McCain said about the Bauer endorsement. "He'll dispel that."
Also signing on was California Secretary of State Bill Jones, the highest elected Republican in that state, which votes March 7 as part of the
big round of primaries that could settle the GQP presidential nomination.
Jones, whose own election in 1998 relied on Independents and Democrats, said he switched his endorsement because McCain's message of campaign finance reform would reach beyond Republican stalwarts and help build the party.
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Aides said Bush was set to report he had about $20 million left from his vaunted $70 million campaign treasury. That's about twice what McCain said he had left in the bank. Bush already has set a new record for primary-season spending.
Bush was reviving up his fund-raising machine after a lull, seeking a refill to compete in looming and expensive big states. McCain has been fund raising heavily since his surprise blowout in New Hampshire.
"We have a plan in place that's going to enable me to stay in this race for the long run." Bush said, noting he was campaigning in more states than McCain.
McCain. who has sworn
Bush: has about $20 million left in campaign funds
off negative ads, began airing a campaign-closing TV spot in South Carolina designed to convince Republicans that he can defeat both Bush and the eventual Democratic nominee. The upbeat ad features adoring crowds and patriotic images.
Bush, whose campaign has grown increasingly aggressive, started a new ad that accuses McCain of unfounded negative attacks and of wailing on public financing of congressional elections, which both candidates say they oppose.
McCain is rolling through inland South Carolina from town meeting to town meeting, beaming confidence and arguing he'll be able to press ahead regardless of what happens Saturday.
Reform leaders push for Perot
The Associated Press
"There's beginning to be an upswell among the grass roos in the party," said National Secretary Jim Mangia who added that he's gotten dozens of e-mails from Perot supporters since the party's raucous committee meeting Saturday in Nashville, Tenn.
WASHINGTON — Days after followers of Ross Perot ousted the Reform Party chairman who was loyal to a Perot rival, party leaders launched an effort yesterday to draft the Texas billionaire into the presidential race for a third run.
If he ran, it would be Perot's third run for president on the third-party ticket after finishing with 19 percent of the vote in 1992 and 8.5 percent in 1996. He would face former Republican Pat Buchanan in a fight for the party's nomination and the $12.6 million in federal matching funds that comes with it.
Such a challenge from the party's founder would not deter Buchanan.
Perot's 1996 running mate, Pate Chato,
until Chato was picked Saturday to succeed
Jack Gargan as chairman. Gargan was allied with Minnesota Gov. Jesse
"Clearly, he would be a formidable challenger for the nomination," said Buchanan, who was publicly backed by
Ventura, who broke from the party last week. Choate immediately resigned as Buchanan's campaign chairman.
A third-party challenge by either man could have a major impact on the presidential race by taking votes from the Democratic and Republican nominees.
Perot: may run for president if McCain loses Republican bid
Perot's prospects this year were said
by senior party officials to depend heavily on how well Sen. John McCain fared against Texas Gov. George W. Bush in South Carolina's GOP presidential primary on Saturday.
McCain, whose congressional crusade for campaign finance reform draws support from Reform Party members, could drain support from the third party's grass roots and make a Perot bid unappealing.
So popular is McCain among some factions of the Reform Party that there's even been talk of nominating him on the party's ticket—even if he captures the GOP nomination. For his part, McCain has said he would only accept the Reform Party not after winning the Republican nomination. If McCain loses, the equation for the Reform Party changes because Perot sees South Carolina as a major test of McCain's long-term viability, the officials said.
Without McCain in the race, Perot is the man who can carry the real reform message into November, Mangia said.
"The Reform Issues McCain is running on are the issues Ross Perot gave expression to in the 1992 and 1996 campaigns," he said.
The senior officials said Perot could announce his candidacy the way he did in 1966, on CNN's Larry King Live, as soon as next week — depending on how McCain does in South Carolina.
FBI has new leads on elusive hackers
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The nation's top law enforcement officials acknowledged yesterday serious challenges finding the electronic vandals who shut down major Internet sites last week, but they also described fast-developing leads.
They said the hackers involved were sophisticated enough to falsify their digital fingerprints. Attorney General Janet Reno said such a disguise technique made it difficult, and sometimes impossible, to hold the perpetrator criminally accountable.
"I would simply say that we are taking the attacks very seriously and that we will simply do everything in our power to identify those responsible and bring them to justice," Reno told a Senate panel.
in coming days. He said FBI field offices in five cities had opened investigations into the attacks: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston and Seattle. More agents in other cities and overseas also are involved.
Reno and Freeh also conceded important shortcomings coordinating the myriad government agencies and public and private experts who helped investigate high-tech crimes.
FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, who also testified, said there were fast-developing leads and more details would be available
"We're not doing so good," admitted Freeh, adding that cooperation was improving.
The FBI also urged Congress to consider expanding use of federal anti-raceteering laws — traditionally used against the mafia and drug cartels — to apply against organized and persistent hackers. It also urged Congress to lower the $5,000 minimum in damages that victim companies must suffer before attackers can be prosecuted under federal computer crime laws.
"I would simply say that we are taking the attacks very seriously."
eBay Inc. disclosed new details yesterday about the electronic assault launched against it Feb. 8, which shut down the world's largest online auction site for 90 minutes. Similar attacks disrupted other major commercial sites, including those of Yahoo! Amazon, Buy.Com, CNN and ETrade.
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eBay's lawyer, Robert Chesnut, described an insidious, organized attack that he said was obviously well planned. The attackers flooded eBay's site with 10 times its normal incoming data, transmitting a specific type of information identical to that used against Yahoo! on Feb. 7.
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