Chris Lehane
Chris Lehane
Christopher Stephen "Chris" Lehaneis an American political consultant and crisis communications expert who has served as a lawyer, spokesperson and expert in opposition research for the Clinton White House, Democratic candidates for public office and various business, Labor, entertainment and professional sports organizations. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, he was a lawyer and spokesperson in the Clinton White House where he and his current business partner Mark Fabiani were called the Masters of Disaster by Newsweek...
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This is a basic crisis communications principle: When you are dealing in a crisis situation, people want to look, see and feel that some type of leadership is being projected.
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Contributing financially to charitable organizations is certainly noble and should be encouraged and is something that the Gores have done when the resources were there. However, to truly judge a person's commitment to helping others, you need to consider what they have done with their lives and how they have spent their time -- and by that standard the Gores are extraordinarily committed.
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Even as we speak, they really haven't determined what the tones and right chords are. On the communications level, these story lines get written very quickly. . . . At the end of the day, you just come back to the fact that this is a national disaster and the national government is responsible for handling it.
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So much for George W. Bush's moderate makeover. He has rushed from the warm embrace of Bob Jones and straight into the arms of the NRA,
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Core Democratic constituencies will show up, and the heart and soul of the core Democratic constituencies in California is labor.
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She starts out in an enormously powerful position. Probably 40 percent of the party base is solidly behind her. She taps into an enormous national network.
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Let's remember that in 1992 and 1993, Bill Bradley supported a special-interest tax loophole that was a boondoggle for the pharmaceutical industry and then-Senator Gore voted against that in 1992.
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The Gore campaign wants the will of the people to be reflected accurately and completely, which will be guaranteed by a manual recount, while the Bush campaign is trying to do everything possible to stop that from happening,
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There is no question that this was about 2008 and not about any particular event in January 2006.
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They say they can't do this, Al Gore says we can do this. He will do right on behalf of the American consumers for a clean environment and affordable reliable energy.
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Al Gore rejects the Bradley approach, which requires seniors to pay $800 in upfront costs before they get a single benefit,
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This is the hidden hand of the right wing swooping in to help Texas Governor George Bush.
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Any Republican presidential candidate who is supporting a risky tax cut that would hurt our children -- especially in areas like Head Start and Title I -- has little credibility talking about education. Sound like the Texas two-step to me.
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It appears that Governor Bush is marching off in one direction while his key lieutenants are running off in another.