Senator Bob Dole Reception Congressman Martin R. Hoke The
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E x tende d Pa9e This document is from the collections at the Dole Archives, University of Kansas http://dolearchives.ku.edu I I Senator Bob Dole Reception Congressman Martin R. Hoke Monday, June 27, 1994 The Ritz-Carlton 1515 W 3rd Street Cleveland, OH The Diplomat Room 7th Floor 3:00p.m. Jndustry Name PrQfession/Company Investment Advisor Albert Augustus Augustus Company Brokerage Firm David L. Baker Baker &: Company Law Firm David L. Brennan Amer, Cunningham, Brennan Co. Hlectrical Contractor Charles E. Clock Clock Electric Medical Insurance Co. James P. Farley J.P. Farley Corp. Dr. George Hoke Neurosurgeon (ret.) Mrs. Laurie Hoke Messenger Service Henry Holtkamp Quicksilver James llummer Hummer Associates Jeannette Jenson Manufacturing Jon Jenson Precision Metaljonning Assoc. Insurance Fred Lick Central Reserve Life Insurance Ernie White Central Reserve Life Insurance Glenn Laffoon Central Reserve Life Automobile John Lance John Lance Ford Page 1 of 63 TEL: Jun 24,94 11:59 No. 002 P. 02 This document is from the collections at the Dole Archives, University~ of Kansas http://dolearchives.ku.edu Edward A. Lozick Netts Corporation Manufacturing Duvid Morgentli.a/.et' Morgemhalcr Ventures Investment. Frank E. Mosier Self-employed Robert Pavey Morgenthale.r VP.ntur~ .~ Investment Robert Schmitt Schmitt Homes· Builtkr Ken Seminatore Climaco, C/imaco, Seminatore law Finn Dottald Strang Sr. Strang Corporation Hotel/Restaurant Mgmt. 1l I • Page 2 of 63 This document is from the collections at the Dole Archives, University of Kansas http://dolearchives.ku.edu Ohio - 70th District it one gh she 10 Martin R. Hoke (R) many direc- Of Cleveland - Elected 1992; 1st Term :::arter. 1either Born: May 18, 1952, Lakewood, Ohio. 1ection Education: Amherst College, B.A. 1973; Case Western Reserve U., J.D. Frank 1980. ugh he Occupation: Cellular phone company president; lawyer. Je nner Family: Divorced; three children. roledo Religion: Protestant. avun- Political Career: No previous office. irtisan Capitol Office: 212 Cannon Bldg. 20515; 225-5871. noney, zation aptur. The Path to Washington: If the tornado lengthy 1e dis- editorials castigating her for failing to of voter discontent dropped a house on any 1on 55 keep watch over the bank and the House Post incumbent in 1992, it was Democratic 16-year Office 1992, - which was embroiled in multiple scan- veteran Mary Rose Oakar. Only this time the dals from cocaine sales to fraud - from her reward went to Hoke, a political neophyte, who, position as a subcommittee chairman on the like Dorothy, was mostly just riding a storm. House Administration Committee. In its news At his victory celebration, as if to complete columns, the Plain Dealer reported allegations the life-imitating-art parallel, Hoke had the that she had placed ghost employees on the N y band play, "Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead." Post Office staff. That charge was later dis- y Hoke, a lawyer and millionaire founder of a proved, and Oakar sued the newspaper for libel y successful cellular telephone company, may find (the case y is pending). But the damage was done. that he is not in Cleveland anymore when he gets Nevertheless, Oakar had survived previous to Capitol Hill. He pushes standard Republican ethical and N legal lapses and had been over- y fare about less government and lower taxes - whelmingly re-elected on the strength of her N particularly on capital gains. And he hews to his white ethnic appeal and y success at bringing anti-government line by opposing interference in home federal aid for her struggling city. It private decisions. That leads him to y a qualified appeared that she would prevail again in 1992, y endorsement of abortion rights. after six other Democrats jumped into the pri- N Hoke does not shy from speaking his mind. mary and split the anti-Oakar vote. She won In an interview with The New York Times on easily over her strongest challenger, Cuyahoga the social lives of single vative representatives, he said: County Commissioner Timothy F. Hagen, who 1tion "I could date [fellow representatives] Maria declined to confront her through most of the 0 Cantwell or Blanche Lambert - they're hot." campaign and waited for her to fire the first 48 Hoke's campaign was marred by missteps, negative shot before responding in kind. 54 particularly on substance and policy. He called But Oakar's 56 vulnerability showed when she 71 for a S200 billion cut in defense spending. Yet, pulled in less than 40 percent. The newly drawn 50 when he realized that would be a 70 percent cut, 10th contains a large slice of suburban Cleveland 60 he revised his estimate downward 68 twice. He not used to voting for her. Those voters provided 69 raised the possibility of decriminalizing drug use Hoke with his 57 percent victory. 73 to cut down on crime, then disavowed the idea. Hoke was not gentle. 82 His campaign literature called for reforming the Attacking Oakar from the start, he won his Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation primary in a bit of an upset over Rocky River ACU (FSLIC), which reminded voters of Oakar's senior Mayor Earl Martin and three others. He then position on the 8 Banking Committee and of the pursued Oakar relentlessly through TV ads that 5 cost of the thrift bailout. It overlooked the fact dredged up old and new dirt on her ethical 8 that the FSLIC was abolished in 1989. scrapes. And he executed a well-rehearsed 11 attack 13 When Hoke got down to attacking the during a nationally televised Sunday morning 0 incumbent, however, he was as polished as any news show in the campaign's final weeks. 5 experienced politician. He proved much more Hoke survived a 14 baptism of fire that may 22 articulate on the stump than Oakar. And, most have tempered him for the certain assault he will 4 important, he made her the issue. To Hoke, Oakar face in 1994. In the final days of the campaign, an was the "poster child for what is wrong with Oakar aide was linked to anonymous charges Congress." Named as one of the 22 abusers of the aired by a Cleveland TV station that Hoke was a House bank - with 213 overdrafts - Oakar was cocaine user. Oakar said he had failed to pay child an early target of congressional critics. support and ridiculed his having adopted the The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, which had name and lifestyle of a Sikh in the late 1970s. endorsed her in every prior election, wrote Hoke successfully parried the attacks. 1201 Page 3 of 63 This document is from the collections at the Dole Archives, University of Kansas http://dolearchives.ku.edu Martin R. Hoke, R-Ohio Ohio 10 Cleveland - West Side and suburbs This was a district designed with the Kucinich, made it a national symbol of safety of its former occupant, Democrat urban decay. But Cleveland today is stron- Mary Rose Oakar, firmly in mind. Many ger than many industrial cities of the Frost Democrats see Hoke's win in 1992 solely as Belt, mainly because it is making the suc- a referendum on Oakar, and they expect to cessful transition to a service economy. win the seat back. To offset auto and steel slumps, a con- "The joke around here the day after sortium made up of the city's largest compa- the election was that Martin Hoke had just nies mapped out a long-term, diversified plan been elected to his last term in Congress," for growth - a number of small, high-tech says a local observer. companies have already been attracted. Con- The line between the 10th and 11th dominiums are being constructed near the districts generally divides Cleveland's white $200 million BP America headquarters, and and black populations. The 10th is the old dry-goods warehouses are being con- white district, containing the state's largest verted to homes - the first downtown hous- concentration of ethnic voters. Poles, ing to go up in a generation. To help keep Czechs, Italians, Irish and Germans are the suburbanites in the city after dark, several art largest groups, but there are dozens of other deco theaters have been restored, and Cleve- ethnic communities represented by at least land's Lake Erie waterfront is receiving a a restaurant or two on the West Side. facelift. Even the Cuyahoga River - which The city's steel industry fueled the eth- was once so polluted that it caught fire - has nic influx around the turn of the century, with been cleaned up. immigrants settling near the West Side mills. Children and grandchildren of Euro- Steel, automobile and aluminum plants com- pean immigrants have moved out of Cleve- bine with smaller businesses to make up the land to inner suburbs such as Parma, due employment base today. south of the city. In recent years they have But many of the younger people who moved again. Parma's population declined work there have bought homes in the sub- in the 1970s and '80s, as residents left their urbs. Cleveland suffered a 12 percent popula- ranch homes of the 1950s for the open tion loss in the 1980s. As a result of this - and spaces of outer suburbs such as Strongs- the addition of more western Cleveland sub- ville. But even with the population loss, urbs - more than half the electorate now lies Parma (population 88,000) is still the outside the city's limits. eighth-largest city in Ohio. Nearby steel The downtown area was gerryman- mills and automobile plants give this sec- dered in order to divvy up sources of cam- tion of the district a strong union presence.