roundtable: Re: Back to the Future Robber Baron Days

roundtable: Re: Back to the Future Robber Baron Days

Re: Back to the Future Robber Baron Days

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Tue, 3 Jan 1995 12:35:36 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 12:35:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Back to the Future Robber Baron Days
In-Reply-To: <199501020909.EAA11197@pobox.upenn.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950103123011.28507G-100000@access2.digex.net>


On Mon, 2 Jan 1995, Jeff Porten wrote:
> 
> Far be it from me to be a Gingrinch sympathizer, but the retraction
> from the $4.5M advance to a $1 advance does put him back on ethical
> ground.

  It certainly does, with one exception: the appearance of a conflict 
of interest remains, as Rep. Bonoier charges.  A public official cannot 
freely engage in lucrative business contracts with those he is engaged 
in regulating, specially when the stakes are so high as they are in 
the case of Rupert Murdoch.  This conflict must be better clarified 
by independent examination, in my view.

  We can rejoice that speaker-to-be Newt Gingrich has disclosed his 
willingness to listen to critics, at least those within his own party.  
But this improvement in the situation does not eliminate the cloud 
produced by his original willingness to "go for the money" and the 
remaining problems cannot now be swept under the table.

  Vigdor Schreibman
  <fins@access.digex.net>

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