Chiles friend rallies tobacco fighters
Jump to full article: Miami (FL) Herald, 1999-01-02
Author: MARK SILVA Capital Bureau Chief
Intro: A longtime friend of Lawton Chiles has corralled the private lawyers who fought the tobacco industry for Florida with a dinner-table challenge: Donate a few million of their billion-dollar legal fees to a cause Chiles cherished -- healthy babies.
One number floated: One percent of the Florida firms' fees, or $18 million.
``But for Lawton Chiles, we wouldn't have this money,'' says one of the tobacco fighters, Palm Beach attorney Bob Montgomery. ``I certainly think we ought to do something to dedicate ourselves to perpetuating the interests that Lawton Chiles had.''
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But for Lawton Chiles, we wouldn't have this money. I
certainly think we ought to do something to dedicate ourselves to perpetuating the interests that Lawton Chiles had.
Palm Beach attorney Bob Montgomery, who has challenged his fellow Florida tobacco lawyers to donate a part of their winnings to babies' health. Quoted in <i>Challenge to lawyers: Share fees with babies</i>
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