Hey! Rollins was Ross Peeerots “crazy ain’t in da basemint,” too!!! (talk about sabotoge that gave us the Clintons)(ew! That almost sounds like an STD!!!)
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR-ELECT WINS ELECTION BY $500,000;
J. SCOTT ORR - Newhouse News Service. The Oregonian.
Portland, Or.: Nov 10, 1993. pg. A.10
Summary: Christine Todd Whitman’s top strategist says money was dispensed to discourage votes for her opponent
Campaign operatives for Christine Todd Whitman, New Jersey’s governor-elect, funneled “walking around money” to big-city black churches in the state in exchange for commitments from ministers not to deliver pre-election sermons supporting incumbent Democratic Gov. Jim Florio, Whitman’s top campaign strategist said Tuesday.
Ed Rollins, consultant to the Whitman campaign, told reporters that the campaign for the Republican gubernatorial candidate used approximately $500,000 in “walking around money” — money used to pay Election Day expenses — to make donations to black churches and to pay some political workers in the state’s urban centers to stay home on Election Day.
“We had a substantial amount of walking around money, which is a different game — somewhere in the neighborhood of half a million dollars,” Rollins said.
“We went into black churches, and we basically said to ministers who had endorsed Florio, `Do you have a special project?’ And they said, `We’ve already endorsed Florio.’ We said, `That’s fine . . . don’t get up on the pulpit Sunday and say it’s your moral obligation that you go on Tuesday to vote for Jim Florio,’ “ Rollins said.
During remarks at a breakfast meeting with reporters, Rollins... didn’t say which churches were targeted by the Whitman campaign.
He said the amounts the churches received varied depending on their size, adding that he did not personally arrange any of the payments: “Those were our community people who obviously knew what they needed to do and where they needed to do it.”
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“What we did, I think, for the first time is we played the game the way the game is played in New Jersey or elsewhere. And I think to a certain extent our game plan was not to have this intensified vote in the areas we couldn’t obviously make up,” Rollins said.
In addition, Rollins said the Whitman campaign paid some Democratic political workers in the state’s cities to stay home on Election Day.
“We said to some of their key workers how much have they paid you to do your normal duty. Well we’ll match it, go home, sit and watch television,” Rollins said. He also failed to identify the recipients of those funds.