Thursday, August 19, 1999 • Volume 6, Number 1 Page 1of8 •••••.. .. . Quayle becoDles ·r ....1..:&-.•:. HE ~--== first Internet victim E-mail flubs doom him in Iowa HOWEYT "It would be hard to go from a life of state dinners and exotic travels to doing Republican Lincoln Day dinners at Nelsons Golden Glo Port-a-Pit Hall in Wakarusa." POLITICAL - HPR Publisher Brian A. Howey, Newsweek, Feb. 20, 1995 By BRIAN A. HOWEY• in • • has become the first political victim of REPORT the Internet. Once every three or four weeks, I get e-mailed to me the list of Quayle gaffes and misspeaks, dated 1988- The Howey Political Report is published by NewsLink 91. The 1988 Model of Dan Quayle has become the alba­ Inc. Founded in 1994, The Howey Political Report is tross around his neck. an independent, non-partisan newsletter analyzing the political process in . Quayle finished - by virtually all accounts - an embarrassing 8th place out of 9 candidates in the Ames, Brian A. Howey Iowa, straw poll last weekend, with only 916 of the $25 editor and publisher votes, bettering only U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (558 5 votes). The Howey Political Report Office: 317-254-1533 Texas Gov. George W. Bush won the most votes with 7,418, PO Box 40265 Fax: 317-254-2405 or 31.3 percent, followed by Steve Forbes, who spent $2 Indianapolis, IN 46240-0265 [email protected] million to successfully woo 4,921 (20.8 percent) of the www.howeypolitics.com votes, Elizabeth Dole, who had 3,410 of the votes (14.4 per­ Washington office: 202-775-3242 cent), and Gary Bauer with 2,114 or 8.9 percent of the you know whats. Business Office: 317-254-0535. Pager: 317-320-2722 The Cedar Rapids Gazette quoted Drake University Daytime number: 317-254-2400, Ext. 273 political analyst Dennis Goldford saying, "Quayle's in big Subscriptions: $250 annually via fax or first trouble finishing behind (Alan) Keyes. I talked to a lot of class mail. Call 317-254-1533. people who said they love Dan Quayle, but he's damaged goods. They think Quayle is the right message, wrong © 1999, The Howey Political Report. All rights reserved. Photocopying, faxing or reproducing in any horse." form, in whole or in part, is a violation offederal law The huge political miscalculation Quay le made came and is strictlv prohibited without consent of the in 1995 when he decided against running for governor of publisher. Continued on page 2 «QUOTE" OF THE WEEK INSIDE F E A T U R E S

'Frankly I was outraged. He used his cam­ Ticker Tape: Guns in schools p.2 paign funds to pay himself. This is exactly DC Watch: Moderate tax Dems p 4-5 Columnists: Smith, Kitchell p.6 what people don't want politicians to do .... ' Horse Race: Anderson, Hammond, - Donna Kavanagh, who filed a complaint against House Muncie updates; 2nd CD derby p. 7-8 District 20 Democratic nominee Tony Underly, who paid himself about $9,500, to the Michigan City News-Dispatch Beginning Our Sixth Year! Page 2of8 Thursday, Augu:;t 19, 1999 •

going to be on a snowy, wintry night in Quayle, from page 1 January when the c::mcuses go to tell us TICKJ:~R Indiana. Four years of executiv1e Sf:rvitt1de how we're doing. That's when the real back home in Indiana could have erased vote takes place, and we are in a strong the retreaded e-mail jok 1 e~. Quayle essen­ position to do very well and perhaps win tially acknowledged! to Paul Gigot of the in January." Indiana school boa11ds Wall Street Journal last Friday that it was expelled! 129 studeirts for If anyone ha· had the oxygen • taking firearms to sr::hool in perhaps "a mistake" not to run for gover­ sucked away by the Bush juggernaut, it

19917-98. Another 3~9 were nor and that he has miscakulated ~he level has been Quayle, Preosident Bush's loyal kicked out for poss 1!'!.sing of his image problems. vice president who has seen a number of other deadly weapon:; CNN analyst Charlie Cook. said of what could have beein allies in the former (Associated Press). "The Iowa that it was ''a disastr::ms showing, by administration back 1he ex-president's data is some refleic~:ic1n on any means" for Quayle. USA Today's son. Quayle said Ll1r CBS's Face the the school and the 11::c1mmu­ Susan Page said on CNN':~ Late Edition, Nation, "It was a good night for Gov. nit)r ," said Steve Dains, stu­ "Quayle is clearly th.e surprise loser." Bush, but I still tllink it's going to be dent services directo1r of the lndia111a Department Orf Quayle's showing s.unnedl some of messy." Educaition. "To lgnc 1m it is his closest Indiana suppoD.ers and! prompt­ Asked if he would continue, despite to be 1111 denial abot 't what is ed four members of h.is South Caro Xi na a down-sized staff and potential for deep going on." The AP ~;aid the staff to bolt to Sen. John l\,1cCain on debt, Quayle said" "Look, I think I have a state 1only reported 1;:~ gun Tuesday. "He needs to figure out an '~xtri­ lot to offer the party. I believe I am the and firearm expiulskms to cation strategy so can keep himself viable only one that can pu:- together the Reagan tlhe U.S. Departmen'l 1>f down the road," said one dose Hoosier coalition and the :;i~1~agan coalition is this: Education. Quayle ally. the social consen ati ves, the economic A Newsweek Poll (7!5:3 Quayle insisted he was not lieaving conservatives, and the nationail defense adults, 298 gun OWl'JeH, the race, as former Tennessee Gov. Lamar conservatives." Aug. ~2-13, +/·4 peN~nnt) Alexander is expected to do. "The No. 1 shows 68 percent favor rule in politics is to peak on Elecltion 'N'hy not at }IJ,.r111es? "ban111ing the manu·!'acture, Day," Quayle said Sundla) on C1'1N'~; Late When CBS asked the former vice sal1e aind possessio1r1 of Edition. "Well, Election Day iri lo'wa •was• president why he ·,vasn't able to do that at Continued on page 3 n't yesterday. Election Day in fowa is Ames, Quayle re~,pJ>1rided, "Look, this is a • Page 3of8 Thursday, August 19, 1999 straw poll. You know the sound bite and The man in denial the most memorable thing of this straw David Yepsen of the Des Moines poll is probably going to be Steve Forbes Register put it like this on NBC's Meet TICKER flying in those French doors for his air­ the Press: "l think those at the bottom of T A p E conditioned tent." the pack are facing some tough decisions The Republic reported here today. The function of Iowa in his semi-automatic assault that "even before the vote was taken" process is to winnow the field. That hap­ guns" and 37 percent favor· Quayle aides sought to "downplay its pens in straw polls and that happens in importance and send the message that the Ing banning handguns. The caucuses next year. So I think that some poll said 93 percent favored candidate had strategically avoided pour­ candidates, particularly Lamar Alexander, the establishment of a ing too much money into it." Said spokes­ Dan Quayle, may not be able to raise the mandatory waiting period man Jonathon Baron, "We were not going money to continue in the race." for background checks. The to be goaded, we were not going to be George Stephanopoulos commented poll showed that 35 percent fooled into spending a significant amount on ABC's This Week, ''The man who is in of gun owners agreed with of resources in August." denial is Dan Quay le. A former vice presi­ Republicans and 28 percent agreed with Democrats. Former Quayle White House aide dent finishes eighth - didn't even get a Bill Kristol said on ABC's This Week, "I thousand votes. He said he is going to don't know if he can sustain that. He'll Democratic fundraiser stick it out. Maybe he is looking for a Johnny Chung told Reuters make his own decision. I guess I almost time further down the road where he can that "Democrats told him hope he does. I think that would be a get out in a dignified way." how to plead the Fifth shame. He's a good man and he served his Amendment before he testi· country well, and to sort of soldier on in Buying votes, elections fied to Congress in 1997." eighth place, I don't know what the point Chung said Democrat Yepsen's analysis that Iowa is the of that is." staffers on the House state that winnows the field is startling in The Associated Press reported that Government Reform that he includes an August 1999 straw while "Quayle spoke bravely, there was Committee "sent a package poll where votes are bought as a strategic talk from some of his top aides that his to my office, not my attor· part of that process. What has prompted campaign also was short-lived." ney's office" and said that that is the front-loaded primary schedule package "tried to teach me That differed from Mary Beth that has the field gasping for any advan­ how to plead ·to take the Schneider of the Indianapolis Star, who tage in a process that will likely end by fifth." Said committee chair· called Quayle's showing "a total, collossal mid-March 2000. man U.S. Rep. Dan Burton, failure" but added that interviews with A cornerstone of Quayle's presiden­ "If Mr. Chung's allegations Quayle's Iowa and New Hampshire staffs are true, this is one of the tial strategy was to use his Midwestern "were upbeat. All were dismissive of the most outrageous and parti· roots to solidify his status at the beginning persistent political speculation that his san actions by a member of of the primary season, then use that campaign would not long survive." Congress and staff that I strength crucial to the GOP in the fall have ever seen." campaign to bolster him down the home­ Quayle's dilemma stretch. Instead, he received nothing less Dan Quayle was asked on The dilemma for Quayle is that by than a rebuke from Dubuque. Fox News Sunday if he was staying in against Bush (with more than Where does Quayle go from here? "going to go after George $30 million cash on hand) and Forbes' He is not a viable presidential contender. W. Bush" over his alleged unlimited spending account, it's hard to Marilyn Quayle's acid remarks that G.W. wild days and rumored cocaine use. Said Quayle, imagine any scenario of him rising up to has been given everything makes a cabi­ "Well, I'm not going to do finisher higher than either of them or net post seem unlikely. He has no political that I have too much Elizabeth Dole. If he does stay in the race, future in Arizona. respect for his father. I he risks becoming a 1990s version of for­ Quayle is close to U.S. Rep. David served his father very loyal­ mer U.S. Sen. John Glenn, who is still Mcintosh. You have to wonder if a move ty. I'm not going to get Into paying off debts from his embarrassing back home and a relaunching of his politi­ personal attacks. I'm not 1984 presidential campaign. cal career here is a ponderable thought going to get Into this poll· between the two. •!• continued on page 4 lPage 4of8 Thursday, August JL9, 1999 TICKI~~R T A p E Bayh, Roemer, Hrn would be c:on.i:•ervatives in different 1era • By MARK SCHOEFF Jll". member New Democrnt Coalition., backs a The Howey Political Repon smaller cut. His group offered a $300 bil­ tics of personal destru1:tion. WASHINGTON - In a differe.Illt era, lion proposal. Hill played a central! role in I am not going to run a neg· tax proposals offered by several Hoosier crafting the Blue Doi,, Democrat plalll, . ative campaign. I think peo· Democrats might have been defined as which would cut tax:es by $250 !biHion pie are sick of negati11re1 poll· conservative. But in the latie. 1990s polity, over 10 years. The common thread run­ tics. I think they're si1:~k: of scandals. I have an urpbeat, being conservative m;!ans fighting for ning through the proposals is the focus on large tax cuts while being a modera.te positive, optimistic nn 1!·s­ ~.l;GR1 .E ('(' redlucing the sage th :it I want to ta 1.E! to Democrat means b.attjng to hold! tlrn mtid­ Co~''11 ,•. _, ·~.}..J $3.6 trillion the Republican voti: r." dle. debt. The The tax bout has onl) e11ter1ed He W A T ( H Blue Dog Republicans are leading the middle rounds, witil the Re publican •mE[ll .-:r:n• plan would congressional generi1:: majority Congress passing~~ $792 billion dedicate 50 percen1l cf any surplus that polling lby a 41·38 pe1"1C1ent 10-year tax cut before adjourning ::;dliier materializes to pay m ~ down the debt. "My margin, according to 1:30P this month. President Clirntein has vow ~d preference is to shore LIP Social Security poUster John McLaus11hlin & to veto the packag1e while calling more and Medicare," Hrn said. "I don't know Associates. A mid-July for temperate tax cuts, in the range of $250- how we cam offer n~.:.dy $1 trill.ion in tax CNN/Gallup/USA Tod1~}r sur· vey hadJ Democrats l·e1n debate. He joined a group of bipart1.san Hoosier delegation - Rep. David Mcintosh announced the order ir1 a senators who proposed a $500 bi.llion tax (R-CD 4). press conference with cut. The effort landed! Bayh prominently Mcintosh, ht>ad of the Conservative Lugar at the U.S. Dept. of on the pages of the Wall St~eet JoumaJ. Action Team in the f-_ouse, is a standard­ Agriculture. Lugar ourllined The plan was shot down, but could bob bearer for the $792 b111ion congressional his biomass proposa~ in a back to the surface during negotiati:m8 tax package. Under 1tht:Rt plan, 75 percent Januar;r/February For 1!· gn between Capitol H1ll and th~ While of the surplus wou l J Je allocated to Affairs article he wr•o 1~ 1! with former CIA Director FIJ. House. strengthening Social Security and Med­ Roemer, co-chairman of the 63- icare and paying do1~,rn the debt. The • continued on p.age 5 Page 5of8 Thursday, August 19, 1999 remaining 25 percent would be used for Republicans and Democrats alike tax relief. must make their tax entreaties to a TICKER In Mcintosh's view, the GOP langorous audience. Rep. Ed Pease (R-CD should hold firm and force Clinton to 7) said he doesn't see much passion in the T A p E come up to the $550 or $600 billion tax­ electorate on any issue. "It is a reflection cut level before talks begin. "He'll have to of the times," he said. "People are gener­ James Woolsey. do something like that to get to serious ally satisfied. When you go through (the negotiations because there is so much congressional tax package) point-by-point, Kelly Stanley, CEO of momentum on our side," said Mcintosh, people will say, 'Yeah, I agree with that."' Ontario Corp. In Muncie, who is running for governor. "The presi­ Some of the tax-cut appeal is has been named a vice dent will have to choose between giving reduced by the fact that the total tax chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. us an issue and signing this bill. In the break for most Americans will amount to Sen. Richard Lugar and end, he'll probably look at the polls" and only a few hundred dollars a year. In addi­ Rep. David Mcintosh, who decide to support a large tax cut to help tion, there's some question about the sta­ credited Stanley as being Vice President 's presidential cam­ bility of the surplus. Congress has a pen­ one of the people who paign. chant for breaking the spending caps set Inspired his public service, In the early stages of the tax tus­ by the 1997 budget agreement - which feted Stanley at a Washing· sle, the Democrats have the edge, accord­ produced the surplus - and dipping into ton dinner in July. ing to one analyst. "The Democrats have the surplus to fund any "emergency" it the better sales pitch," said James P. decides to declare. Monroe County Sheriff Pinkerton, a lecturer at George Washing­ In addition to tax relief, Pease also Randy Williamson's trial is under way for misusing ton University and former policy official said he senses strong support for paying $7,000 for public funds. in the Bush administration. "(Republicans) down the debt and protecting Social won't necessarily win - they can't override Security and Medicare. "All of these State Rep. Paul Mannweiler a Clinton veto and maybe can't even get a things are going to end up on the nego­ ·has been elected president majority in the polls - but they will ener­ tiating table in September," he said. "This of the National Conference gize their base and buy some political 'I­ has to be viewed as a comprehensive of State Legislatures. told-you-so's' in case a recession comes package." along between now and November 2000." Determining which part of that The Indiana Election The lines of demarcation between package will be emphasized depends on Commission Is reconsider· Hoosier Democrats and Republicans are the support different groups can generate. ing campaign finance rules on candidate compensation not always bright and clear. Rep. Mark Although acknowledging the need to after dismissing a complaint Souder (R-CD 4) hailed the provision of reduce the debt, business will weigh in against House District 20 the $792 billion package that would more heavily on the side of tax cuts. Democrat Tony Underly allow tax cuts only if a surplus exists after "Within the bounds of reason, the larger, (Erin Carey, Michigan City money is set aside for Social Security, the better. It should be substantial," said News-Dispatch). Underly Medicare and paying down the debt. Kelly Stanley, CEO of Ontario Corp. in received about $9,500 from When it comes to targeted tax Muncie and a new vice chairman of the his campaign finance fund cuts, members from both sides of the aisle U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "To capital­ as compensation for lost stand on a wide swath of common ground. ize on opportunity requires investment wages from 1996 to 1998. Mcintosh has championed eliminating the and that leads right back to the issue of The complaint was filed by Donna Kavanagh, who lost marriage tax since 1996. Killing that tax taxation. Given an opportunity, govern­ the Underly in the '98 is a main provision in Bayh's and Roe­ ment will find a way to spend money. The Democratic primary. "Frank· mer's proposals. The GOP and Democrats discipline that might come from a tax cut ly, I was outraged," said also generally support reducing estate is good." Stanley said the business com­ Kavanagh. "He used cam· taxes and capital gains taxes and provid­ munity is engaged and advocating its palgn funds to pay himself. ing a health insurance deduction for agenda. But so is Roemer. The $300 bil­ This Is exactly what people the self-employed. But the Democrats lion New Democrat tax cut is "not a bid don't want politicians to focus more on spending some of the sur­ up, but firmly puts a marker down. These do." Underly said he served plus on government programs. The Rep­ are not prayed for projections, these are continued on page 6 ublicans devote more to tax cuts. paid for plans.•:• Thursday, August 19, 1999 Page 6 of 8

1 TICKI:~~R co1m~~nl1IIS~~[ S 0 N T A P E • I .. Dave Kitchell, Logansport Pharos­ oh, by and by, aboul a gazillion doUars in campaign money. He looks like a guy you as his own campaign iman· Tribune - As he sits in a hospital be·d, could buy a beer fm, George Dubya. He ager. "S,ome people s1~e1nd Robert Ferrell is struggling ,,vith vi~ ion thoiusa111ds of dollars cin, problems at age 78. His vision for vice looks like a guy who ought to be president campaign managers," he presidential timber is another matter. He because ... well, he looks like a guy who ought to be president And so never mind said. !Election Commiims· clearly sees the evolving political proce.::~; ioner Bradley King pmsent· that just over a year from lllow will sekct his stand on the issuies, if in fact he has ed the board with a drnft the first president of the 21st century. 1111e one. And never mind! his record as gover­ that suggests if candi1.lcttes IU history professor emeritus who nor of Texas, which features moHycod­ are going to use fundi'i for authored 17 books and has focused on dling major corpora~e polluters, support­ salary reimbursement they ing a $250,000 slash in kindergarten fund­ must say so in a cont·act many vice presid1ents of the 20th century ing and siding with uLi:tities who wanted with their campaign manag· sees a limited futur1~ for Sen. Evan Ba) h er. King expects the corn­ as a candidate for Democratlc presidentic1l to pile 70 percent of their $9 bilHon debt mission to take actio1r11 in front-runner Al Gore. "My guess is that on the back of consumers. •!• September or Octobe1·., he has no great ideas," says Ferrern, a Democrat, who admir,~s Bay h's father, Kevin 1\1.lerida, Vlhshingion Post • Lobbyists spent a rec1:>1d Birch. "Bayh does not strike me as a Dan Quayle is readly to talk abm.nt llis $15.7 million to influe1111c:e reformer. I don't think his governorship predicament. Which tumbles into a dis­ legislation during the was at all distinguished." \V 1at Ferrnll cussion about the B usbes. Which gets Indiana General Asse111~oly. a 19 percent increase says Bayh needs is not a good five-cent complicated. "I thfrhk Republicans have a (Associated Press). Tlh1e cigar, but a good ag,enda. "1he vice :presi­ real guilt complex wlhen it comes to the rep,ort said $13.9 millkm dency, despite efforts to dreiis it up, i1s :;ti 11 Bush family," he says. "They feel that was spent on salaries, pictoral," he says. "Television, whet 1er perhaps they should have worked harder $400,000 on receptiol'lls and you like it or not, is big." But FerreU ajds for his father and thalt 1here's some sense other entertainment. that Americans have largely become "fart of feeling that they ~et his father down. So and happy" because of their growiir_~~ per·· this is payback time." George W. Bush, The Indiana Agricultu'l'al sonal wealth and it will be difficult to beneficiary of the Big Payback? This is Statistics Service saicl connect them to larger issues, particularly the Quayle theory on why the party elite northem aind soutlhem 1parts foreign policy." Ferren asys if Gore i~ :b ~ of the state are at neill r and the party regulan. have embraced drought conditions w1 th nominee, he should consider doing w h lt Bush the Younger. OL, they like Quayle, pastures dry. It said 55 per­ he probably will not - selecting Gores all right, but they do11 \ think he's elec­ ce111t of the com crop ltas opponent, Bill Bradley, as hls running table. He's got an irn~ ge proMem, plain reached the drought srtage mate. •!• and simple. Bumblfr. lightweight, and 13 percent of the ciom Maestro of the Malaprop, whatever. It's crop lhas entered the il:IEmt Ben Smith, Fort Wayne Journal unfair, they say. It's v,Tong, they say. But stage. Tlhe soybean cwop is that's the way it is. A-id so it's hard for Gazette - Here is what some people think rated 0111ly 34 perce111t g1ood Quayle to raise molhey, and it's hard for to excellent, comp1are1:I to 69 will go through America's head when :,t him to persaude volers they should invest percent last year. Lt. 11:ac>v. steps into the votin,5 booth for Decision their hopes in him. Arud it's doubly hard Joe Kernan said at th19 2000 or Coin Flip 2000 or BlindfoJc: Me to watch the relatively untested son of a Indiana State Fair last week, And Hand Me The Pinata Si:ick 2000: "I don't think there's m1n1y president he served so loyally being cooed "Daggone, but that boy's prt~tty." Tlhe boy good news" (Susan Dillman, at and crowned be~ore his eyes. "Of in question being Gecrge W. Bush, the South Bend Tribune). course it's frustrating, but it's reality," he next president of the Unit,edl States, lhe Kernan said statewidt , agri· says. "So there's not much I can do about man with the laughing eyes and wi111d­ cultural losses are es :irnat­ it."•!• ed to be $350 million .:md blown hair and impish frat-boy grin. and, Page 7of8 Thursday, August 19, 1999 Indiana Racing ForDJ TICKER INDIANA MAYORAL RACES 1999 T A p E Anderson Mayoral: Republican: Lani Czarniecki. Democrat: Mayor Mark Lawler. Independent: Linda Haynes. 1995 Results: Lawler (D) 9,411, Graham (R) 8,817. 1999 Forecast: Haynes qualifies for the ballot. Prosecutors are mum on their investigation into the ripple effect could be $1 Lawler's corruption allegations. General Status: Tossup. billion. ''That's what's not Hammond Mayoral: Republican: Mayor Duane Dedelow. Democrat: Tom being spent on Main Street in small towns all over Philpot. 1995 Results: Dedelow (R) 11,099, Philpot (D) 10,578. 1999 Forecast: This is anoth­ Indiana," said Kernan. Said er close race shaping up. Philpot ran extremely Ho RSE Purdue agricultural econo­ competitive in 1995 and then defeated Lake R A ( E mist Chris Hurt, "We are County Commissioner Fran Dupey in the '99 pri- going to have another year mary, 4,526 to 3,758. Democratic polling shows ••••••••.------­ where the market price is Dedelow leading 43-35 percent. This race is very much in play. General Status: Tossup. just simply not sufficient Indianapolis Mayoral: Republican: Secretary of State Sue Anne Gilroy. enough to even begin to Democrat: Bart Peterson. Our Party: Rev. John Gibson. Libertarian: Andrew Horning. 1995 cover the costs that produc­ Results: Goldsmith (R) 64,209, Jimison (D) 39,539, Dillon (L) 7,175. 1999 Forecast: ers are going to have in Informed GOP sources say Gilroy has about a 6-point lead. Peterson went off the air, presum­ Indiana." ably to poll and gauge his summer TV campaign's effectiveness. Goldsmith administration delayed final exit interview with State Board of Accounts to Aug. 25. SBA is apparently seek­ The Lake County Council is ing additional documentation. The delays have been on-going since June and. the ramifications faced with a $13 million are that the first audit results will hit the media after Labor Day. If there is bad news, it would deficit and may resort to have been beneficial to Gilroy to have that hit during the summer dog days. The first audit employee salary cuts and results will include reports on Oscar R~Smoot's construction management program. possible layoffs (Rick James, This is where Gilroy is at greatest risk, since she has called Indianapolis the "best run city in Gary Post-Tribune). ''What America." Gilroy's trump card is her willingness to report her campaign finances on a monthly this really is begging for is basis. Peterson's refusal will almost certainly be portrayed as "politics as usual" in fall TV staff reductions," said coun­ spots. Gilroy reported $578,000 raised between April 20-July 30, with 80 percent of her 1,502 cil financial administrator donors living in the city. "I hope that this unprecedented disclosure will go a long way toward Dante Rondelli. "But every· restoring public confidence in the political process," said Gilroy - almost certain to be a fall thing will be gravy after next TV soundbite. AFSCME endorsed Gilroy. General Status: Tossup. year." Council President Muncie Mayoral: Republican: Mayor Dan Canan. Democrat: Ralph Smith Jr. Bobbi Costa replied, ''You 1995 Results: Canan (R) 9,718, Carey (D) 6,521. 1999 Forecast: Canan announced a tax rate are telling me the solution to 20 cents under the current one. "We have tried to hold the line on spending," Canan told the this is cutting the work Star Press. "We presented a budget that adequately funds all operations of the city." force? Cutting salaries Democratic Council President John Rust called the rate cut almost "unbelieveable." Rust sounds better than cutting added, "I think we have to go along with it. I have no problems with it." Obviously, this is not people." The county spent $2 a good development for Smith. The indictment of former Delaware County Democratic million more than it took in Chairman Phil Nichols on a campaign forgery charge doesn't help Smith and takes the sting last year. out of Canan's controversial letter on behalf of a convicted felon earlier this year. On the indictment, 2nd CD Chairman Ray Scheele observed, "It's very unfortunate, but I don't think it Former Delaware County translates into people changing their votes." General Status: Leans Canan. Democratic Chairman Phil Nichols and his sister, Cathy Stonecipher, have been INDIANA 2000 RACES indicted on forgery charges Governor: Republican: U.S. Rep. David Mcintosh, George Witwer, John Price. (Muncie Star Press). The two Democrat: Gov. Frank O'Bannon. 1996 results: O'Bannon 1,107,342, Goldsmith 997,505, have been charged with cre­ Dillon 35,261. 2000 Forecast: Jim Huston became Mcintosh's campaign manager. Steve ating a bogus document In Austin moved from the CD office to head up director of grassroots development. Mcintosh February 1998 that withdrew campaign phone number is 765-286-1994. Formal "bunting & balloons" statewide fly-around Paul Buckles from a precinct will come Sept. 28 with a big fund-raiser a few days later. O'Bannon still can't shake committeeman race. Buckles Muscatatuck, where an investigation is under way on sexual abuse allegations. This could add continued on page 8 continued on oa.ae B lllll!IRIU ::Jl ...11111

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