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Thursday • October]]
Perot aims to ban PAC campaign fund
(AP) — The following are the
responses of the major presiden
tial candidates to the question:
“What should be the main ele
ments of campaign finance re
form and how would you break
the logjam that has thwarted it in
the last three Congresses?”
Bill Clinton
"Our goal is to take the reins
of our democracy away from big
special interests, from big mon
ey, and to put them back into
the hands of ordinary Americans
where they belong. Our bottom-
line test should be: Will our ef
forts make our government
more representative, not less
representative?”
Bob Dole
“If elected, I will work with
leaders of both parties in the
Congress to form a bipartisan
commission. ... By taking this is
sue out of day-to-day politics,
the logjam that has stopped
such reform in the past will be
avoided. ...
First, we simply cannot allow
the political influence of any
American to be outweighed by
foreign money. If you’re not eligi
ble to vote, you shouldn’t be per
mitted to make a contribution.
Second, donations from cor
porations or labor unions to fed
eral candidates or parties to in
fluence federal elections should
be prohibited; soft money must
be eliminated. Third, no Ameri
can should be compelled against
his will to give up a portion of
his weekly paycheck to finance
an organization’s political agen
da. ... And fourth, the influence
of political action committees
must be curtailed.”
ON THE ISSUES
Ross Perot
“1. Banning FACs from con
tributing any money. 2. Requiring
candidates for the House of Repre
sentatives to raise all their cam
paign funds from voters within the
district they want to represent. 3.
Requiring candidates for the Sen
ate to raise all their campaign
funds from voters within their
state. 4. Shorten ... campaign sea
sons. 5. Requiring all candidates to
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Control of the House depends on South
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — At 32,
Chip Pickering of Mississippi
seems headed for Congress next
year, a young, conservative Re
publican son of the South all but
certain to take the place of a vet
eran Democrat who is retiring.
Democrats hope Pickering is
the exception on Election Night.
Republicans hope he’s the rule.
Either way, the struggle be
tween the parties for
control of the House
could easily hinge on
seats such as the one
Pickering is after.
There are 19 of them
across the South,
races where Democ
rats are departing
Congress and where
Republicans hope for
gains they’ll need to
offset the losses their
freshman class is like
ly to suffer elsewhere
in the country.
Merle Black, profes
sor at Emory Universi-
seats without benefit of an incum
bent in Alabama, Arkansas, Geor
gia and Louisiana.
Unlike the House, though,
there is no obvious large group
of endangered Republicans —
such as the House freshmen —
where Democrats can count on
making gains of their own.
The political outlook in
House races is influenced by lo
cal voter
“The fact is that
we have real
troubles in two
seats only down
there, maybe
two or three."
the
Rob Engel
Political director,
Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee
ty and student of Southern poli
tics, says Democrats are doing
better than expected in these
races, in large measure because
many of their candidates are
conservatives.
“If the conservative candi
dates can still get the minority
vote out and they can split that
moderate to conservative white
vote, then they are in good posi
tion to suffocate the Republi
cans,” he said.
At present, said Black, “there
are only a small number of seats
where it seems clear the Repub
licans are going to pick up’’
ground from the Democrats.
Democrats need a gain of 18
seats to recapture control of the
House. And with five days of
campaigning remaining, offi
cials in both parties agree there’s
an unusual number of close
races.
The situation in Senate races is
similar in one respect, with De
mocrats forced to defend Southern
groups,
candidates
and their fi
nancing and
other issues.
In Virginia,
for example,
Democrats are
favored to hold
onto a seat
with Virgil
Goode, a con
servative state
senator and foe
of gun control.
Democrats
are relatively
senate Ma-
ott, Picker-
to run for
comfortable about their chances
for holding two Florida districts,
but they face a stiffly competi
tive struggle for the seat being
vacated by veteran Rep. Sam
Gibbons in the Tampa area.
Two Democratic retirements in
Alabama have set up Fierce races.
Arkansas provides two more.
In North Carolina, Democrat
Mike McIntyre, more conserva
tive than his Republican rival, is
running narrowly ahead in pri
vate polls.
Republicans seem certain to
take away one Texas seat, proba
bly one other and perhaps one or
two more. They’re favored to
claim a seat in Oklahoma, as well.
Democratic competitiveness
this year contrasts with the 1994
elections, when Republicans
picked up more than 20 Democ
ratic House seats en route to
fashioning their first majority in
40 years.
Their new base was reflected
in the leadership — Speaker
Newt Gingrich, Majority Leader
Dick Armey and Whip Tom De-
Lay all represent Southern con
stituencies. And within a year of
the 1994 election, Five Southern
Democratic House members
switched parties, underscoring
their belief that the GOP was the
party of the future.
“People have come to realize
that the days of the Southern
conservative Democrats, and I
say unfortunately, have come to
an end, where they can rise to
positions of leadership" in their
own party, Pickering said in an
interview.
A former aide to
jority Leader Trent 1
ing returned home
Congress when veteran Democ
ratic Rep. G.V. “Sonny” Mont
gomery announced plans to re
tire after 15 terms and a career
that often left him at odds with
the Democratic caucus.
He’s already got his eye on seats
on the National Security, Com
merce and Agriculture committees.
His opponent, John Arthur
Eaves Jr., stresses his conserva
tive credentials, as well. He’s op
posed to abortions “without ex
ception” and gun control, favors
prayer in school and supports a
“strong military.”
But there’s little doubt about
the likely winner in this race.
Pickering received only
$5,000 from the GOP congres
sional campaign committee, far
less than most others GOP chal
lengers, because the party fig
ures he didn’t need any more.
Eaves hasn’t received any money
from his party because they
reckoned his prospects didn’t
warrant it.
Outside this district, though,
the political picture becomes
cloudier quickly.
“The fact is that we have real
troubles in two seats only down
there, maybe two or three,” says
Rob Engel, political director of
the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee.
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