GORE AIDE INTIMIDATED INTERNET EXECS

[Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>]

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>XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WEDNESDAY, MAY 05, 1999 23:05:22 UTC XXXXX 
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>GORE AIDE INTIMIDATED INTERNET EXECS 
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>**Exclusive** 
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>The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that pressure was put on digital types to 
>back "Gore's" new post-Colorado shooting internet initiative. During a 
>conference call with DISNEYABCAOLYAHOO on Tuesday, a senior Gore staffer 
>threatened retaliation to those who would not come aboard, it has been 
>learned. 
>
>["The Vice President has a long memory and your presence or absence at the 
>event will be duly noted," the aide told the executives.] 
>
>And sources tell how the new "one click" project was initiated by the 
>internet industry, with the encouragement of the bipartisan Internet 
>Caucus, in mid-1997. It was NOT an Administration initiative and there was 
>NO participation whatsoever by Al Gore. The ego has landed. 
>
>Meanwhile, John Sharp, one of the most prominent Democrats in the country 
>and a longtime associate of Vice President Al Gore, has decided to back 
>Bradley for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaks Broder in 
>Thursday runs. 
>
>Sharp was a senior adviser to Gore's "reinventing government" plan, but he 
>is now reinventing. 
>
>"A lot of Democrats and independents fear he is tainted by the Clinton 
>administration," he explains. "Bradley doesn't have those things hanging 
>on him." 
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