Jump to full article: New York Post, 2000-07-30
Author: ROD DREHER
Intro: Why the generosity this campaign season?
Two reasons: the multibillion-dollar tobacco settlement has made a number of trial lawyers extremely wealthy, and George W. Bush is a champion of tort reform.
"The tobacco settlements have created a class of lawyers richer than any lawyers have dreamed of being in the history of the world," says the Manhattan Institute's Walter Olson. "They really have become an institutional ATM for the Democratic Party." . .
You watch: if Gore wins, America's blubberbutts will file a class action suit against the beer companies. The Dems should sew up the Homer Simpson vote nicely.
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