On The Bob Dole Story...

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3. Dole was never one to hesitate playing the gay card

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/27/us/dole-in-a-new-bow-to-right-returns-gay-group-s-money.html

Dole, in a New Bow to Right, Returns Gay Group's Money
By RICHARD L. BERKE
Published: August 27, 1995

Scrambling to enhance relations with conservatives, Senator Bob Dole's Presidential campaign said today that it was returning $1,000 from a gay Republican group.

The campaign said it had accepted the June donation by mistake, and would never have taken money from an organization that supported causes Mr. Dole opposed, like allowing homosexuals in the military. But correspondence made public today by the president of the group, the Log Cabin Republicans, showed that Mr. Dole's national finance chairman had sought the group's help in raising money as recently as May. snip

Nelson Warfield, Mr. Dole's spokesman, said that the campaign had accepted the donation from the Log Cabin Republicans, a nationwide organization with more than 40 chapters, only because of "a financial screw up."

"It's our policy that we won't accept contributions from groups that have a specific political agenda that's fundamentally at odds with Senator Dole's record and his views," he said.

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I remember him using it a lot when he ran for president.

Bob Dole was a repulsive bastard. He would do or say anything for a vote. Like most Republicans.

Don