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- Nov. 29, 1993: Sorry, I Made It All Up
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Nov. 29, 1993 Is Freud Dead?
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- ELECTIONS, Page 33
- Sorry, I Made It All Up
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- <p>Rollins claims his tale of vote suppression was just an empty
- boast
- </p>
- <p> This time Ed Rollins swore he was telling the truth. His earlier
- contention that the Republican Party had doled out $500,000
- to suppress the black vote in New Jersey's gubernatorial election
- had been a political boast, he said last week, concocted as
- a "head game" with his rival political strategist, James Carville.
- That was Rollins' explanation last week for earlier remarks
- that had touched off a furor following Republican Christine
- Todd Whitman's narrow victory over incumbent Democrat James
- Florio.
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- <p> Interrogated for seven hours on Friday by lawyers for the Democratic
- National Committee, Rollins said he was stunned by the reaction
- to his earlier remarks. "Obviously, if I thought it was going
- to be a national story, I would not have taken a gun and put
- it to my head and blown my career apart," he said. His shame
- over the scandal has been so overwhelming, in fact, that he
- has thought about killing himself: "It's to a point where I've--you know, I thought of putting a gun to my head."
- </p>
- <p> Over breakfast with reporters on Nov. 9, Rollins had asserted
- that black ministers and Democratic workers were paid to keep
- black turnout low. Democrats, who have filed a lawsuit asking
- to invalidate the election, acknowledged that the Rollins deposition
- failed to provide a smoking gun but vowed to keep fighting.
- Said Democratic state committee chairman Raymond Lesniak: "I
- am not going to drop our investigation based on his bizarre
- explanation." Federal and state criminal probes are under way
- as well.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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