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The present staffers bristle at the suggestion that they are politically motivated. As it happens, Merrill and McBride are Democrats, Connolly is a Republican, and Ruth and Davis maintain they are "apolitical." Ben-Veniste, who declines to reveal his registration and who has been a prosecutor in New York under both Democrats and Republicans, says, "I'm against crooks of both parties." As for Jaworski, a Johnson Democrat from Texas, he has praised the objectivity of his staff. Says he: "I have complete confidence in their professionalism.''