Page 1of8 Andrew seeking 'centrist' course Incoming Democratic state chairman to begin workat'grassroots'level

INDIANAPOLIS - Incoming Democratic State Chairman has vowed to chart a "centrist" course for Democrats that includes reclaiming urban legislative seats lost last fall as well as a couple of congressional seats. HOWEY .I "I feel confident John Gregg will be speaker of the House in 1996," said Andrew, an attorney with Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman, in an exclusive HPR interview. POLITICAL Andrew said he will attempt to reinvigorate the party at its basic level. "I am a person who comes from grassroots organizations," Andrew said. "I grew up in politics licking stamps for Ed Roush and knocking on doors for Wm Moses. That's what politics was to me REPORT when I got involved." Andrew is expected to be voted state chairman when the state The Weekly Briefing On Indiana Politics committee meets Monday, replacing Ann Delaney, who resigned. Ninth Congressional District Chairman Mike Jones is considering a run for the chair, but Andrew's behind-the-scenes selection by such The Howey Political Report is published by The party heavyweights as Gov. , Lt. Gov. Frank O'Bannon and Newsletter Center,a subsidiary of Nixon Newspapers Inc. long-time strategists Tom New and Bill Schreiber make his election The Howey Political Report is an independent, non­ all but inevitable. There was speculation before the preliminary partisan newsletter analyzing the political process in announcement of Andrew's selection in December that Bayh would Indiana. It neither endorses candidates nor advocates cede the choice to O'Bannon, the probable 1996 gubernatorial nomi­ positions of public policy nee. Brian~ Howey, editor Office/Fax: 219-420-0909 "Apparently when the two of them talked, they both came to the 1707N.AnthonyBlvd. Mobilenet: 219-438-5105 same conclusion that I would be the appropriate person," Andrew Fort Wayne, IN 46805 CompuServe: 75141,51 said. "When the governor approached me, he made sure I knew that For Subscription information call: 317-473-3091 Frank O'Bannon was very supportive of the decision." © 1995, The Howey Political Report Andrew's resume reads like a who's who in modern Democratic Party circles. He worked as a volunteer on the campaigns of Rep.Ed Roush and later for then-Fort Wayne Mayor Wm Moses.

continued on page 8 ('QUOTE"OF THE WEEK INSIDE f EAT UR ES It "This institution has no soul." • Columnists Haase, Moss and Leonard page2 • Horse Race: Quayle lines up top strategist page3 - State Sen. Robert Hellman, after Senate page4 Republicans voted unanimously to seat Sandy • GOP senators bounce Frank Mrvan Dempsey over Frank Mrvan • La Porte's Elmo Gonzalez won't seek re-election page 5 • HPR Interview: Rescue leader fears violence page 7 ------·------··-----··------Page2of 8 Thursday, January 26, l 995

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Aone-sentence bill introduced- by U.S.Sen. Rl1:hard LtJi]ar is swamping finanoa I market executives with wo1 k, according to Ml~chell Losln of the Chicago Tribune. The I: I extends the life of the Commodities Futures Tradir1g Commission for five years.The I 11 11 ~ D I A N A commission oversees the COL U~vf~~I~;1.']~S 0 N Chicag·~ Board ofTrade and the 11rr1111111111m:11 nmm nnmm11mrmj1m ~m~• Ch1cag) Mercha nt1le Exchange. • DavidLHaase,Indianapal.isNews -1/\th;r date Michael Bailey wcii l 70,000 votes in The bill would reauthorize the can't the U.S. government be more lik ~ :1arcl­ November 1992 sho1will" g aborted fetus.es in campaign commercial:;. missions Congress gave the CFTC working, God-fearing, taxpay r:3 Ame1i1;an::! in 1992 in the wake of the 1987 Why can't it balance its budget Lhe way there •Mike Lem1ard,Bloo nington Herald-Times­ stock rriarket collapse and the red-white-and-blue folks do? That's what s• 1me in the balanced budget amemiment corps 11,•ant The real reason I'm wrl ting this story is that I 1989 FBI probe of Chicago com­ to know. I believe I know the answer. If mv '.el- wantto do an election pkce that doesn't men­ modities markets. low Americans are like me, they balance thdr" tion . Or, J::. That indescretion budgets with Visa, Mastercard, the credit urtlon aside, the purpose of tl ii:; column is 1to discuss Chris Jones has jumped f1om and the mortgage company. 11 ':; called cl ~bt h n.d an election that assure'' :ly will be less con­ the office ofU.S.. Rep.fol~n that's how the government bal.inces u bud get. tentious than the '94 crn mpaign: the vote to 1 Myers to David Mclnto·;ll, Only the numbers are bigger. All Amer:kan:i choose a n e·w color of J' , l 3cM. The candy candi­ where he will also be pre~s sec­ spend about 15.1 cents out of ('Very dollar :t lley dates are blue, purple a 1d pink. Frankly, I think retary. Doug Wasitls will be earn to pay off debt. Funny thing, the lJ.S. g,).l'­ if the resealJ'ch were aoi:u:rate, the new M&M Myers' interim press aide, a slot ernment spends about 14 to ] 7 cents cin tJ11: dol­ would be colored teal. he held several years ago. lar to pay off its debts. We nee·d some m·w • Brian R,o,wey, HP.R · It's interesting that Lt. Americans. Gov. Frank O'Bannor:'~ political strategist- Bill Jr U.S,. Rep'. Stev 1e Buyer has a Schreiber - is praying·: at least hoping) that simple suggestion for the big •Dale Moss, Louisville Courier-]ounMl­ Senate President Pro 1i1: m Robert Garton is the Abortion grabs and squeezes many peoJj.e 1ard. controversey over the November 1996 opp on :nt. You can bet that if the It polarizes in a way unlike D·1~moc:rnt / press doesn't scrutini2:11: Garton over 1the income Smithsonian lnstituion's Enola Republican or Hoosiers/Wild::ats or 1a~1 e10 he derives from giving 11;·minars to firms lobby­ Gay exhibit.Says Buyer pre;s aide great/less filling. It consumes. Going .fo3r t I) ing the legislature, an cr ~annon gubernatorial Pat Hlnton,"Steve feels there door in Jeffersonville, former city council c:mdi­ organization in a tight ;ampaign would. The should be asign that just s3id, date Charles Schladand was aiskedl his stam e 0~1 "you makie us feel dirt~v" quote Star "This is the Enola Gay tha1· abortion. Schladand respond,ed d1plcimatinlJy columnist Dick Cad)' H ported is intriguing. It's a dropped the first atomic bC1mb that the council deals with drainage and th1e like, conspicuous invitation for calls of .full and com­ over Hiroshima." Now, Vv: uld that not with reproduction and 6e like. "B1Ll 1 tb, T plete disclosure.Bob Guton beuer come to be considered "revisionist 7" didn't want to talk about anyd1ing else. he ~.aid. terms with the politicc11 microscope along with It incites. People rarely picket for a bala. 1ce i some trail mud if he's i;oing to run for governor. Continued on page 3 budget, much less murder on r:s behalf. F1·: n Because fu,e '96 GOP p ~ i:rnary campaign will not political oblivion, Indiana congressional ca ndi- be for the faint of he an. Page3of8 Thursday, January 26, 1995

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It is worth noting that CNN's Bruce Marilyn Quayle has been an integral George Witwer has filed his Morton thinks winning the GOP part of the QQ since 1976 when she held court in committee papers for his 1996 presidential nomination isn't that far-fetched. the back room at Mother's Restaurant in Fort Republican gubernatorial bid. His "Inside Politics" report on Monday Wayne and engineered the upset of Rep. Ed Observers are watching closely included this statement by conservative activist Roush. Two years later, she infuriated the old what kind of impact Witwer will Paul Weirick: "Don't write him off for the nomi­ GOP bosses and moved the re-election cam­ have on the freshman dass of nation. But if he gets the nomination, a general paign out of their realm and onward toward an GOP House members, many of election fight is going to be very, very difficult:' improbable upset of Birch Bayh in 1980. whom Witwerhelped.elect Morton agreed. "I think he's a good Even more compelling was 1988, when through his Opportunity candidate for the nomination. His popularity is for months the Quayles adroitly planned~ with the Christian coalition and the party exploited the circumstances, and strutted Dan's Project of Indiana. . activists and, as you know, stuff until George those are the people who Bush tabbed him as Hammond GOP precinct tend to come out:' his running mate. It Chairman Vernon Vierk is get­ That's the uncon­ HORSE RA c E was no accident and ting alot of support from politi­ ventional wisdom surround­ might be one of the cal bigwigs since being arrested ing a "Quayle Quest" for the greatest behind-the­ on two DUI counts, including one presidency, the core constituencies and IOUs the scenes maneuvers in modern political history that resulted in the injury of former veep will be collecting. since no one was giving him a chance the week­ Pamela Dimitriou, asecretary But there's one point that almost end before his selection even as he matched wits to Lake County Commissioner everyone at this early juncture has neglected to with and Sam Donaldson on ABC's Peter Katie, D-Hammond. factor in on the QQ. Marilyn Quayle broached This Week with David Brinkley. At that point, no the topic in Hammond earlier this month, when one was talking about the "deer in the head­ Wrtting letters on behalf ofVierk she zinged Lamar Alexander for trying to "buy lights:' to Prosecutor Bernard Carter up all the good campaign operatives" and Phil Marilyn Quayle offering her critique in include Lake County GOP Gramm for his "joke" straw poll win in Hammond had the markings of an expert's Chairman Roger Chlabal, Louisiana. observation. Hammond Mayor Duane Forget John Sununu, Ed Rollins and The Alexanders, Gram ms, (sorry, no Dedelow Jr., former Calumet Bob Teeter. Ditto for Bill Kristol. Dan Quayle Bells) Doles and anyone else in the way will do City Mayor Robert Stefaniak, already has one of the nation's top strategists in themselves no big favor if they dismiss Dan and former Hammond Police his camp. In fact, she lives with him. Quayle's kitchen cabinet. Chief George Wise (Mark Klesllng,HammondTimes). 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To order The Howey Political Report, call 317-473-3091 or fax invoice information (including Visa and Mastercard, with account number) to 317-473-8428. continued on page 4 ------·------··-·----·------Page4of 8 Thursday, January 26, l 995 M~van ~os(es Seu11,1:11"~ :{~~ seat o~~~ pa~"lY lin~~ 1 1 T A p E vote; GO~) a~d~t111J1[~ Ufil~ ·[l1u~:dges no m~, L,1d INDIANAPOLIS- Voting along the ~Ml· 19 party lines, the Indiana Senate accepted ·:he The'essential" ;~rgument Republican majority report Tuesday a_-d offi· This is a key exc:hrnge between Sen. U.S. Rep. Pete Vlsclosk:i' 1as cially seated Sandy Dempsey as senator Imm Robert Hellman and Sr :ni. Richard B:ray over reversed his position and w II co­ Lake County's 1st District. the majority report im1oMng the seating of sponsor and vote for one of the With outgoing Sen. Frank Mn•:m r er­ the 1st Senate District rictor. balanced budget constituticinal vously watching from the sidelines, and HELLMAN: In yo Jr experience, what amendments up before the Dempsey's name removed from the voting does the verb mean, to judge? House this week (Rick board, a packed chamber listen=d as F.e~iub BRAY: To evalu1tt. licans attempted to justify the xeport and :; : -: . HELLMAN: W~1,~ 11 you go to a, udge, Rotha 1cker, Michigan CiO' Robert Hellman pleaded with his GOP C·Jl­ what do you expect!' News-Dispatch)."! have lost my leagues to ''do unto others ... :' BRAY: I expect th ! }udge to weigh the patience and do not want to wait Mrvan appeared to t ave won ithe 1st evidence and apply 1h~ m to applicable laws. any longer to ber~in actively bal­ District seat by 54 votes in No .'·ember. But th~: HELLMAN: Ar,e) 0111 familiar with ancing the national budget I did Senate majority seaud Demps1ey last Tl1ur~ d;:1y Indiana Ccrde 12-1-2.01 not mal

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HPll Right-to-file activists will marrb in result of an intense fr us J' ation. John EKennedy ~ NT E RV ! IE W cities across Indiana and the United S:a. es this said that if you make a ~ 1eaceful r1evolution 11111111 =:JCJll]~ weekend. The shadows over this movement are impossible,. you make a. 1riolent one inevitable. the recent homicides and shootings at abor:fon Because of the new fedlr: nil legislation that has clinics in Pensacola, Brooklim:, Mass.,, rtWayne) 1,vhen abor­ debate, the most contentious since th,; f,if·~, days tions are performed hai ·,e dropped off some. 0 it again.o••" of the civil rights movement. In the p::.l, : tb~ ~'e There are still a numbei of people who go and = Wendell BrG'ne years there have been acts of '1olence or v.11 tdal·­ do sidewalk counselm~: on Thursday.s. Some ism at abortion clinics in Fort Wayne,. S·e

Willll•WWWIWWi!llllMHiiilliiiilllifilDlll11MILElliHHlllliliihliUliiilWl:ill'illihMiiiilliMlilliiliiiiTil1llmrr11m11mrmll'l'IOIWiiill&AWl9MiiiilWiiililllllilMlll 111911111 Hill IMlll 1I11111111111 11111! Ii llllMlllMMilWilliiU Page 7of8 Thursday, January 26, 1995 that he just thrives on attention and he's proba­ come in, even though they may be more aligned bly jealous that everyone's had that kind of with us than Democrats, do not really have the attention except him. I have not heard anyone commitment and resolve to make our commit­ even entertain the idea of doing anything more ment to the babies our priority. I'm concerned HUMOR intense or the use of force. I think people are that behind the scenes, with the wheeling and M L L frustrated that more is not happening. dealing that goes on, this will be one of those HPR: When you saw that News­ they will sell out on. I'm not real optimistic, but Sentinel story on Klopfer being a target, how I'm more hopeful than I have been before. did you react, because it kind of fit the stereo­ HPR: The race for the Indiana Wendellisms, type that some want to place on your move­ Republican chairmanship involves Vigo County by Wendell Trogdon, ment. Chairman Jim Bopp, who some are trying to Indianapolis News Brane: He's an opportunist. He want­ cast as a one-issue figure, he being active in the ed to use that to paint us with the same brush national right-to-life movement. There are ele­ "The Republicans have public and get some national mention. Susan Hill, the ments of the Republican Party that say he may TV and radio stations scared. Barney manager of these health organizations around not be acceptable. Does that concern you? is sending out resumes .. " the country, has been crying about getting fed­ Brane: What these people do is that eral marshals stationed. They probably every time you take an issue on abortion, "Most benefactors give money schemed together this claim because anybody everybody accuses you of being a one-issue for aspecific purpose ... exceptions will believe when an abortionist claims he's person.I'm sure that he is not one issue, but being those who bankroll Stephen been shot at right now. It makes front page, one of many issues that he has a great deal of Goldsmith." people feel sorry for him and everybody felt passion for. If anybody wants to discredit a these ternble pro-lifers who claim to be pro life politician with pro-life conviction, that's how ''Washington really is confused. yet they're shooting this poor doctor. they do it, 'Oh, he's a one-issue person.' I think The GOP Congress wants to take HPR: I watched you address your it would be tragic if he would be intimidated by Americans off U.S. welfare rolls. movement on the use of violence (in October that or if the Republican Party would maneuver President Clinton wants to add 1993).Haveyouhad to counsel any members him out of a place of influence. Mexicans to them.· who at least wanted to explore those options, or HPR: What's is the most compelling has it been absent. challenge facing your movement today? Brane: It's really been absent. There Brane: What the pro-abortion people ••• have been other leaders nationally who haven't need to understand is that all their efforts Devil's Dictionary, entertained doing it, but have entertained the against us, all their laws against us, all these by Ambrose Bierce philosophical justification for doing it. bills, lawsuits that have tried to remove us, well, Occasionally you find that in some debate. But they've won. They have removed the main­ Ejection, n, An approved we've not had anybody who has seriously enter­ stream pro-life movement off the main streets. remedy for the disease of tained it. But now they've got a monster on their hands. garrulity. It is also much· HPR: How do you address the use of We can't keep the extremists from doing what used in cases of extreme violence these days? they're doing. poverty. Brane: Two reasons. It's ineffective HPR: If you had come face-to-face because you can't guarantee that a baby is with a Paul Hill or a John Salvi prior to their Dissemble, v.i. To put a going to be saved. They can go to another abor­ homicidal acts, would you have said to them, clean shirt upon character. tion clinic the next day. And you can't kill all 'Brother, you went the wrong way?' the abortionists the same day, that's kind of Brane: Ambition, n.An overmas­ stupid. The other thing is it's excessive. There Absolutely.And if I tering desire to be vilified by are other means of stopping an abortionist were to know of their enemies while living and besides taking his life. We absolutely oppose it. plans before, I would made ridiculous by friends HPR: How do you see the political have notified the when dead. atmosphere in Indiana and the nation, with authorities. I'm that Republicans taking over the legislature and strongly against that. Take, v.t. To acquire, fre­ Congress? quently by force but prefer­ Brane: We're cautiously optimistic. ably by stealth, We're concerned the Republicans who have ·----·-·--····.. ~-···-····- ...... ----~--··--·""''"'""'--·-··--·---- pened, it would have be'~ n even worse here in Thursday, January 26, 1995 Joe AndD'e\V,contii7~edti'ompG",, Indiana than it was." After graduating from Indiana Un:irersi ty DI CONGRJES~: This is where Andrew and Yale Law School, Andrew worked on Gary talks about the "but for" s11~quence. "I rhink the Olli Iii Iii Iii 0 0 II 11111 Hart's 1984 presidential camp j ign. 111111 II 1111 II reason that Jill Long ani: Frank (.McCloskey) and ll • [J llJI 1111111 ID 11111 Hart won an ups,et victory in the Ind12 r a Mike Harmless would h ! looking at these races D Ulllll 1111 - DID 01.-rllBI Ill primary. "Gary Hart won because of the .Jrg. un 1- DllDtJ l'Jllllll'llllllJlll again is that they recingr ize that but for a nation­ Dllllll l llllllllll:lll!Dl!I zation he put together -the ability to get to J 1fD .. al landslide where peop~ e wanted to kick any­ [_>llilD!llll ··-·­.l!.111' •Ll...U ple with a message that they felt was irnpo~ .1 ·1. body who was in there 1:i u t, they would win P:f1r-rp and convince them they should go to the pc 1; r again." Andrew said he ]1a sn 't talked 1to Long, Andrew said. Mccloskey and Harm le~ s yet. "But when I do, I ·. ltrk · On the Hart campaign,Andlrew me1t Jack will urge th,em to conrn.l er" rematches. Wickes, and he managed Wickes' unsuccess::iu.l ~r 1988 senatorial campaign, with headqu.artiers • DEMOCRATIC llIESSAGE: "V\That I next door to O'Bannon's gubm:atorial c1m believe you will see in ti: e end is tlrnt the cen­ paign office. "I had a Fersonal relation,;[. p v.itb trists in the party are th! people ~tho appeal to Frank and Judy that goes back tlhen," Andre-.~' a Read B1rnan Hl[])wey'§ most Hoosiers.In gener il. there is message of said. 1 weekly column in common sense that ap1 ~als to most Hoosiers.If He spent mucb of the '88 summer and fa[[ these great Indiana the Democr.ats can rei.m n to the fund.amental campaign sequence traveling with Bayh's gi1ber·· message as to why thqr" ·e Democrats; if they new~p are rs natorial campaign manager, Joe Hogsett, and support the hopes and jlspirations oif the work­ followed Hogsett to the secretc:u·y of stat,e's office 1 Angola Herald-flepubliwn ing people; t11at yes, gov !rnment needs to be as chief of staff. reformed, but goverrum nt is not the enemy, then And.mon Herald-Bulletin Andrew will assume control of a ]party we'll win. 'When people 1·ecognize Democrats are organization still holding executive and judi cia'! Aub.~rn Evening Star there for then and that ;tepublicans cannot get power, but rocked on the congr,::ssional ,3 nd 1c· !; · away with defining Derr ocrats as the party of Bedl'oti/ T1•111:s-Mail islative levels. Here is how And.rew pem: tir<.:~ lw. welfare and affirmative i.ction, th,m we'll be Bloomtngton HefG/d-Time• mission: fine." 0 Bluf.fton News-8anne1 II URBAN FALL-OFF: ''J1;c q 1esii :m al )1J u: •REPUBLICAN ll~VOLUTIIDN: ''What Bra2il Ti\mes it, therie are seats a Democrat ~hould no1'. h:11 1e we stand for are the h Oj) e:; and aspirations of the lost and will not lose again in 1'996," he said .. working peo Jle whom ake up 90 percent of the Columbia City Post & Mail ''The first thing I'm going to do is sit C.: wn ~1~tb population and who wi l 1ot buy in1 o this very Connersville News-Examin 1:'1 people who are actually in those area~. ud see strange workl of Newt Crngrich andl the state what needs to be done. I don't profess t(i b 1! an Dewwr Daily Democrat Republican Party whn believe that Big Bird is an expert of differences between Wayne fowml1ip elitist and Rupert Mu rd JiCh is a cozy, warm Elkhart Truth and Center Township (in Indianapolis). 'i{h k friend," Andrew said. ii Fountain County Neighbor it's important to have a unified message, i" also important for us to recognize the cUffer • THE FUTURE: 'l. was just at the Frankfort rimes ences that are geographic and social in diff e r! 11. Democratic National Cc mmittee's conference. ·c; /ndtanapol1:. t'u:.,ness low .1·w/ areas and deal with them. Oni~ of the d a1g,e The wake is over. Every11ody is very energized we have is that people involv,ed in state v1ide p1.il­ about 1996. The gene:ral political climate is mov­ Indianapolis News itics make pronouncements to try and c:over ing very fa5t Where i1 u ;ed to take decades, now Kenda/11ti/1e New5-5un areas that have very different issues." things are happening in a two-year cyde. That is part of our culture and · hat is worrying every Mun de Evening Press • NEGLECTED GRASSROOTS: One: ::a1p Republican in every corn er of the country. They MicifigC111 City News-Dispai' c, 1 on the Bayh-Hogsett era is the 111otuon that fl~~)' fear their risie to pow1e:r 1night just 1be a blip on raise a lot of money and dump ~t into h1!aV)' the screen. New Ca~tle Courier-Times October TV buys. The grassroots "have rno1t ·:)1~en 1 Newton County ifnte1prise neglected," Andrew began. "The party sti1.J1c t1.llre • ON JP ERSONAJL GOALS: "I should work 0 is in good position. We had a large mrn I pro .. on my quotes, so I caa I: e as quotable as Rex Peru Tribu11e gram, a large grassroots program. We .had Early. I can never hope ~ o attain that kind of ShellJy~'.illf News greater use of technology in 1994 than we e1rer fame and fortune, but it helps to have high Wabash Plain Dealer did before. For those things not to have hap· goals."