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Article: Burton hunting.(Democratic attacks on Rep. Dan Burton)
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- National Review
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- May 5, 1997
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THE clearest indication yet that Democrats hope to decapitate the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee came on Thursday, April 10, in the Wall Street Journal -- an Al Hunt column vilifying the committee's chairman, Dan Burton (Ind.). In the media food chain, Al Hunt is in the spot closest to Washington's Democratic apparatus, feasting on its handouts. The Democratic target du jour is Burton, and so Hunt hit him for his "fringe views and theories," called one of his staffers a "wacko," and warned that a campaign-finance allegation against Burton "could prove dreadfully serious." That allegation was lodged by Democratic activist Mark Siegel, who Hunt assures his ...