But several published reports over the years have suggested that Mr. Gore has taken strong anti-industry positions in public while backing away from them in private meetings with entertainment executives and contributors.
But the campaign of Douglas R. Forrester, the Republican candidate for Mr. Torricelli's Senate seat, said the charge was part of a troubling pattern of relationships between Senator Torricelli and various business executives and contributors.
VECO executives are major contributors to political campaigns.
In Mr. Lazio's case, he bought stock and options in Quick & Reilly, whose top executives were major contributors to his past campaigns.
Although the NAFTA proposal was circulated by the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer, it also appeared to reflect the thinking of Cohn and Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary, both of whom are former Goldman Sachs executives (and Democratic Party contributors).
"Once we're done, there is extraordinary expertise in this room, and we're going to need good advice," Mr. Obama told about 120 business executives and other contributors sitting in a gilded room in the Metropolitan Club on Fifth Avenue.
Global Crossing and its executives, already big contributors to federal campaigns and candidates in their home base of California, began making modest contributions to New York State political committees in 1999, when the company bought the Frontier Corporation, a phone company based in Rochester.
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"The truth is everything from unemployment to the carceral state affects black women," Brittany Packnett, an education executive, Crooked Media contributor, and influential organizer, who emerged out of the Black Lives Matter movement, told me.
"This is not only a direct impugning of the integrity of Director Comey, but a challenge to the general agent population to find and reports all the facts related to the interference of Russia in the general election," former FBI counterterror executive (and VICE contributor) David Gomez wrote me Tuesday evening.
