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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.