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- From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
- Subject: Common Cause Comments on Baker Running Bush Re-election Campaign
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:43:56 GMT
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- Press release from Common Cause
- Common Cause Comments on Baker Running Bush Re-election Campaign
- To: National Desk, Political Writer
- Contact: Jackie G. Howell or Colleen O'Day, 202-736-5770,
- both of Common Cause
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- WASHINGTON, July 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Common Cause today urged
- President George Bush to ensure that if Secretary of State James
- Baker takes on the responsibility of running the Bush reelection
- campaign, he leaves the government and carries out these
- responsibilities at the Bush campaign organization.
- "It is obvious to all that if Mr. Baker leaves his current
- position as Secretary of State, it will be for the purpose of running
- your reelection campaign," Common Cause President Fred Wertheimer
- wrote in a letter delivered to President Bush. "Under these
- circumstances it would be wrong and improper for Mr. Baker to assume
- a White House position or any other government position. Mr. Baker
- should be working for and paid by your campaign in carrying out these
- political responsibilities."
- In 1988 when Secretary Baker resigned as Treasury Secretary to run
- the Bush presidential campaign, he correctly left the government and
- went to work at the Bush campaign organization, Wertheimer noted.
- "This time, however, according to published reports, you are
- considering bringing Secretary Baker onto the White House staff to
- carry out these responsibilities," Wertheimer wrote.
- Noting that President Bush had stated at the outset of his
- administration that a guiding principle would be "to avoid even the
- appearance of what is wrong," Wertheimer wrote, "For Mr. Baker to
- move from the State Department to the White House staff to run your
- reelection campaign appears wrong and would be wrong."
- The practice of officials leaving government to assume leadership
- roles in presidential campaigns is well-established, Wertheimer
- wrote.
- The Common Cause letter noted examples in the 1976, 1980, 1984
- and 1988 presidential elections of public officials leaving their
- government posts to assume leadership roles in presidential
- campaigns.
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