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Attorney General Janet Reno requested an independent counsel to check out influence-peddling and illegal fund-raising allegations against Labor Secretary Alexis Herman . The Washington Post said Reno's decision proves she is not covering up for President Clinton.
, are looking like Jimmy Stewart's nightmare vision of Bedford Falls in It's a Wonderful Life . The stench of influence-peddling suffuses some state governments where gambling rules.
The most sophisticated, most boring explanation: Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung used the illusion of an influence-peddling conspiracy to skim most of the money for himself.
Most pundits agree that the revelation of John McCain's influence-peddling letter to the FCC has hurt his campaign, although several--including Paul Gigot (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ) and Tucker Carlson (CNN's Late Edition )--think that McCain is just defending his constituents, as he was elected to do.
If we consider, for a moment, that the primary aim behind reform is the reduction of influence-peddling, then we can look at the present campaign system as a political-influence market: people making payments in return for policy favors.