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NATION, Page 24Grapevine
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, a chicken tycoon
from east Texas, buttonholed several state senators earlier this
month and urged them to change the state workers' compensation
law to make it less costly to employers. As he left, he gave
nine solons checks for $10,000 each. Bribes? Just campaign
contributions, said Pilgrim. Eight lawmakers have returned his
checks, and the senate two weeks ago voted down the changes
Pilgrim wanted. Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle is
not sure any laws were broken. Says he: "The bribery statute in
Texas has a loophole big enough to drive a truck through."
GRUDGE MATCH. White House deputy chief of staff Andrew
Card, the Bush campaign's expert on everything negative about
Michael Dukakis, is contemplating a bid for the governorship
Dukakis is vacating. But obtaining the Republican nomination
will not be easy if Bob Dole has his way. Card is chief of staff
John Sununu's pal, and Dole, who hasn't forgotten the drubbing
he took from the Sununu crowd in the New Hampshire primary, is
helping raise funds for the rival campaign of state
representative Steven Pierce.
IF OPRAH CAN DO IT. Roly-poly former Atlanta Mayor Maynard
Jackson is trying to shed some of his 300 lbs. as he seeks to
return to city hall. He has spurted to a 34-point lead in the
polls over lanky county commissioner Michael Lomax, who has put
together a crack campaign team of Jesse Jackson and Andy Young
alums. Whatever he weighs by the Oct. 3 election, Jackson is
expected to roll over Lomax.
FOR LOVE, NOT MONEY. If Heather Foley weren't married to
Tom Foley, she would be making $89,500 a year. But nepotism laws
keep her from collecting pay as chief of staff to her husband,
the new Speaker of the House. Casual (sneakers and pants) where
he is formal (dark suits), tough (she ushers visitors out of the
office unceremoniously) where he is soft (he sees, says former
Speaker Tip O'Neill, three sides to every issue), Mrs. Foley was
both loved and loathed when her spouse was majority leader. Will
things work out in the Speaker's office? They have to, says a
congressional aide: the Speaker doesn't have the heart to fire
anybody.