GOP Strategist Quits Over Beating Reports
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A top GOP media consultant who helped make “character” a theme in two presidential races has resigned from a House campaign over allegations he beat his two ex-wives. Don Sipple, 46, has denied the accusations, which were first made during a 1992 custody case and appear in the upcoming issue of Mother Jones magazine. Sipple quit the race of Vito Fossella after working for Bob Dole, George Bush and Gov. Pete Wilson. Sipple’s 1996 ads for Dole declared: “It all comes down to values.”
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