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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 04:42:06 EST
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POLITICS=GOP Congressmen Consider '94 Run Against Feinstein<

The same day Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) was taking the oath
of office in the Senate chamber, becoming the first member of the
Class of '92 to take office, the jockeying began nearly 2,700
miles away to challenge her in two years.  Feinstein won last
week's special election against Sen. John Seymour (R), who had
been appointed to fill a vacancy left when Pete Wilson (R) was
elected governor in 1990.

Rep. William E. Dannemeyer (R-Calif.), who lost his June primary
bid to defeat Seymour, said he would try again in 1994, when
Feinstein will be up for reelection. In a written statement, the
conservative lawmaker called Feinstein and Sen.-elect Barbara
Boxer (D-Calif.) the "Job Elimination Twins."

Dannemeyer gave up the House seat he has held since 1979 for this
year's Senate race.

His Orange County colleague, Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Calif.),
also considering a run against Feinstein, said he was "flabber-
gasted" that Dannemeyer had not told him of his plans. "If any-
body steps out of the way for someone else, it's not going to be
me," he said.  Asked about a primary race with Dornan, Dannemeyer
said: "It's a free country."

The flamboyant Dannemeyer also said he had written President-
elect Clinton to let him know he was available to serve as either
Treasury secretary or director of the Office of Management and
Budget. "He said he wanted Democrats and Republicans to serve in
his administration," Dannemeyer said.  He does not expect to be
appointed, he said.<

Pay for Clinton Workers<To the victors goes . . . a little extra
cash. About 500 members of President-elect Clinton's campaign
staff were moved to the Democratic National Committee payroll for
the two weeks following the election, the Associated Press re-
ported yesterday.

"In the real world, people usually get two weeks (of severance
pay) and we wanted to do the same . . . to help out the hundreds
of people who worked real hard to elect Bill Clinton and Al
Gore," said DNC spokeswoman Ginny Terzano.

To stay within the law, Terzano said, the party was treating the
campaign staffers as temporary DNC employees working on party-
related work or the transition process.

Campaign finance watchdogs questioned the move because the Clin-
ton campaign had spent its $55 million in public money, and about
35 percent of the DNC payroll comes from the "soft money" donors
whose political influence the president-elect has promised to
reduce.

"It's a lack of recognition of how systemic the problem of big
money in politics is," said Ellen Miller, director of the Center
for Responsive Politics.

Dee Dee Myers, a Clinton spokeswoman, dismissed the criticism.
"This is just a symbol of how much Bill Clinton cares about the
young workers," she said. "We found a way to get an extra pay-
check so they could get home, begin looking for new work and
maybe buy a Christmas gift for their mothers."

Federal Election Commission spokesman Scott Moxley said he could
not recall an instance when an entire campaign's staff shifted to
a party's payroll after Election Day. Jan Baran, chief lawyer for
the Bush campaign in 1988, said winning campaign workers four
years ago stayed on the campaign payroll for about a week, then
most shifted to the inauguration planning committee bankrolled by
private donors.<

Rudman to Join Firm<Sen. Warren B.  Rudman (R-N.H.), who did not
seek reelection, will join the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison as a partner practicing out of its Washington
and New York offices.

Rudman also will maintain a law practice in New Hampshire with
the firm Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, where he was a partner be-
fore he was elected to the Senate in 1980.

Rudman will continue to work with former Massachusetts senator
Paul E. Tsongas (D) on the Concord Coalition, which the two
founded to inform the public about the nation's fiscal crisis.< -
John E. Yang>and Charles R. Babcock> 02:13 11-12C9999-----

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