Bush Campaign Settles Old Complaint
The George Bush for President Campaign announced Thursday that it had settled a complaint lodged against it with the Federal Election Commission in early 1986.
The complaint, filed by Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus, charged that the Bush organization had violated campaign law in connection with a public opinion poll taken by the Republican National Committee.
The poll, which was also criticized by some of Bush’s then-potential rivals for the Republican presidential nomination this year, asked 1,500 people in September, 1985, how they viewed Bush as a candidate for 1988.
Ede Holiday, chief counsel and financial director of the Bush campaign, said that, although the campaign continues to maintain that no law was violated, it had agreed to pay $17,610 of the $70,000 cost of the poll.
“We have agreed to pay for a portion of that poll to resolve any question about the matter,” Holiday said in a statement announcing the settlement.
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