| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 32 Political issues |
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| Political issues: Bob Dole and the 1996 Presidential Campaign |
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| Steve Merksamer was a senior adviser and California strategist for the 1996 Dole |
| campaign.. His Sacramento law firm, Nielson, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & |
| Naylor, has collected $1.9 million from the tobacco industry since 1988, more than any |
| other California firm. In 1994, Nielson, Merksamer was paid an additional $350,000 |
| to write Proposition 188, called the Tobacco Control Act. The proposition promised |
| tough statewide restrictions, but its language actually weakened state law by acting as |
| a "pre-emption law" to kill dozens of tougher local restrictions throughout the state. |
| When the media exposed Proposition 188 as a tobacco industry ploy, voters |
| defeated it. |
| Quote from Mother Jones, May-June 1996, p. 37 |
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| "Must you debase our nation and threaten our children for the sake of corporate |
| profits?" |
| Bob Dole in 1995, talking about Time Warner (Mother Jones, May-June 1996, p. |
| 62) |
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