Thursday, Jan. 14, 1999 • Volume 5, Number 20 Page 1of8 =:.:.=:= •THE --·1..:.·.·:. Manous, Friedman, -- Tew emerge for D's HOWEY Mr. Andrew heads to Washington By BRIAN A. HOWEY in Indianapolis Sometime late this week, Indiana Democratic Chairman Joe Andrew will be named to the general chair­ POLITICAL manship of the national Democratic Party. That historic appointment - delayed by all the confu­ sion in the wake of President Clinton's impeachment trial - is expected to be made late Friday or early Saturday om- REPORT ing. The Howey Political Report is published by NewsLink, It commences a three-way succession race, wi h the Inc. Founded in 1994, The Howey Political Report is lone vote of approval landing in the lap of Gov. Fr k an independent, non-partisan newsletter analyzing the O'Bannon. Democratic party sources say that O'B political process in Indiana. appoint Andrew's successor within the next week. Brian A. Howey main contenders, along with their strengths and dra editor and publisher include: The Howey Political Report Office: 317-254-1533 • Peter Manous is finance chair of the Dem cratic Central Committee. He·emerges as HPR's front-ru er in the • ~~;~~:;>~~:~~ 4/;?.?fl ~~:.;;~~~~~~; [email protected] ~~~c~~ ~:=~:b:~l~jf~~. ~~i~:!~g:~;~~I? ,~;~is- tinction to make. Pastrick is facing a Democratic primary Washington office: 202-775-3242 challenge from Lake County Democratic Chairman Stephen Daytime number: 317-254-2400, Ext. 273 Stiglich, which essentially has ignited a virtual civil war Pager: 317-320-2722 within that organization. Stiglich succeeded Pastrick as county chairman in 1997. Manous is considered to be one of NewsLink Home Page: http://www.inoffice.com/hpr the Indiana Democratic Party's top fundraisers, which cer­ Subscriptions: $250 annually via fax or first tainly makes him appealing to O'Bannon going into his 2000 class mail. Call 317-254-1533. re-election. In the Bayh-O'Bannon era of Indiana politics, © 1999, The Howey Politicai Report. All rights the downstate office holders have often sought Lake County reserved Photocopying, faxing or reproducing in any talent for key state positions as a payback for the big plurali­ form, in whole or in part, is a violation offederal law ties they roll up in Northwest Indiana. Gov. Bayh gave then­ and is strictly prohibited without consent ofthe Lake County Prosecutor Jack Crawford the Indiana Lottery publisher. and awarded Mike Pannos with the party chair. Since he became governor, O'Bannon has lavished The Region with ((QUOTE" OF THE WEEK many visits and a huge amount of badly needed highway construction funding. Now The Region is facing severe crisis in its steel and petroleum industries. A rosy Hoosier econo­ 'Boy, when you've watched people you've my now might not be that way in 2000 and Manous might known for a long time turn on you with that give O'Bannon some insurance during any upcoming winter of discontent. aggressiveness .... " • Kip Tew is the former Marion County Democratic chairman, which is the antithesis of the Lake County organi­ • U.S. Rep. Mark Souder, on how 4th CD Republicans zation. The Indianapolis organization has been historically lame, but in 1996 Tew supplied a burst of energy that helped •have turned on him, to the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Continued on page 2 Thursday, Jan. 14, 1999 Pagel of8

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more than the body. Dem ocra tS,Jrom page 1 TICKER • Shaw Friedman: The former Julia Carson win a congressional seat and LaPorte County Chairman appears to be T A p E . aid~d in O'Bannon's astounding 19,000 the darkhorse in this race. He is articulate vote pltirality in Stepi:en Goidsmith's a"".d savvy ;and has. .stoorf.q Ms cm.mty Indiana polltlcal legend L. hoine county. In essence, Tew was able to organization to n~merous electoral victo­ Keith Bulen died last week draw blood from a political turnip. Tew is ries. Friedman has a demonstrable ability • at the age of 1972. HPR is In energetic, a rousing public speaker that .to work through contr9versial situations, the process of gathering up can ignite a crowd Gust like Joe Andrew such as. steering maverick former State political anectdotes about .. could). And like Andrew, Tew is excellent Rep. Tom Alevizos out of the picture and Bulen that could not be . printed In the Indianapolis during fierce debate, which is a good grooming his successor, Scott Pelath. Star. Contributions from attribute for a state party chair. HPR Friedman can also be controversial him- readers can be e-mailed to recalls him mixing it up with vigor against self, angering some elements of the [email protected] former Goldsmith aide and current LaPorte organization during the battle to Je'rusalem Post J>ublisher Tom Rose on see who landed the Michig~ City river- The Congressional Ac­ WNDY-TV's Mike Pence Show. In that boat casino. countability Project is can­ intellectual, rapid fire showdown, Tew Some have been surprised that cur­ ing for an Investigation of rent party Executive Director Robin U.S. Rep. Dan Burton In the held his own against the talented Rose. wake of Russ Baker's Salon The conventional wisdom drawback Winston did not seek the chair, which he magazine article that was against Kip Tew is his boyish good looks probably could have had for the asking. also published In NUVO that the Indiana-polis media continually Winston is extremely popular in party cir­ Newsweekly. CAP Is asking brings up to discredit him, last surfacing cles around the state, but is more a tacti­ the House Committee on when Tew considered a run for mayor. cian than the crowd rouser that Andrew Standards of Official That's a crock. Joe Andrew barely looks was. Winston is more intent and strategiz­ Misconduct to determine more mature than Kip Tew does and ing and executing O'Bannon's 2000 re- . whether Burton defrauded ·. the federal government by Republican Chairman Mike McDaniel election campaign than working the chick- hiring a ghost employee, isn't a likely candidate to be posing in any en dinner circuit. • Claudia Keller. Keller has Versace ads. When it comes to being a · • BPR Forecast: Watch for state chairman (with apologies to the peo­ O'Bannon to select Manous for his fund- Co'."tinued on page 3 ple of Minnesota), the mind matters far raising process and Region roots. •:• Page3 of8 Thursday,Jan.14,1999 e O'Bannon gave a deep speech without flash; TICKER Republicans responded with laughs, bombast T A p E By BRIAN A. HOWEY · demic excellence." For a split second Folks said on the 1996 presidential O'Bannon paused and the floor was still, been paid full-time for her campaign trail that Sen. Dick Lugar ''was­ until Republican State Rep. Dennis Kruse work on Burton's campaign n't exciting." To which Lugar would broke into applause, followed by others. committee and Is now on respond, "This isn't entertainment hour." O'Bannon proposed expanding our the Congressional payroll. Last Tuesday night wasn't "enter­ "School Report Cards" so that taxpayers Baker reported In his story tainment hour" either during Gov. Frank know how students are doing in specific that no one In Burton's O'Bannon's State of the State address. If subjects. How many parents are involved. office could describe you doled out points on delivery, To what extent the business community is Keller's duties. According to Baker's story, Burton paid O'Bannon might have gotten a C. 'But the involved. How many students have to do Keller's rent since ·1991 and content of the speech, written by 1996 remedial work. "And here's an important also an annual salary of campaign mercenary Rachel Gorlin, cast one: How many students start and finish $-101000 as well as expenses O'Bannon in a gaze the future. As he the academic year in the same school?" . and bonuses. That would talked about two 1-year-old children in O'Bannon said. . make Keller one of the high· the gallery, O'Bannon launched his The governor then said, "And est paid campaign officials "Building Bright Beginnings" initiative by thanks to the news media, we'll all know In the state Burton talking about the Class of 2016. how schools are measuring up." An evi- spokesman John Wiiiiams told the Washington Post Later, he made reference to where dent number of legislators laughI at. that, Indiana society would ·he at 2066 - the revealing a perceived disconnect etwoon that. Keller worked In Burton's district office and state's 250th birthday. It reminded me of a the lawmakers, constituents and . e news • ·c:1a1:.-~er·in:. Cari ·san~berg's epic biogl'aphy" media. Their ~~ughs ~ame becaus of the · :Et:l~a:~~==~! ~:t on Abraham Linc0ln where the 16th presi- largely superficial reporting, the reliance Burton defrauded his own dent mused about where American society on shaky conventional wisdom, and the campaign committee and would be in 1945. utterly short attertion spans of the converted. campaign funds O'Bannon noted that "recent · Statehouse press corps. Legislators know, to personal use by hiring national events have caused some to doubt for example, that they can say that pre­ ghost employees. representative democracy" and added, vailing wage reforms in 1995 will result "Our conviction that opportunity and in billions of dollars of taxpayer savings. Northwest Indiana steel· responsibility go hand-in-hand. And our It's been more than three years since those workers have denounced President Clinton's plan to knowledge that we can overcome even reforms passed, and virtually no one has help the domestic steel our biggest problems by working together. attempted to find out if there are great Industry which Is· being "Together,'' O'Bannon said. "That's savings. threatened by tE dumping a very powerful word, and a powerful Republicans reacted with, perhaps, of export steel. "It's concept. As the governor and the legisla­ a little more flash than the governor, but absolutely lnsa e. Ifs ture, we can shape Indiana's future. not as intellectually inspired. Senate ridiculous," said Paul together, we have that power. Tonight, I President Pro Tern Bob Garton said in ani­ Gipson, president of am calling on you to use it - on behalf of mated fashion, "There's no reason - NO Steelworkers Local 6787 In our first generation of the new millenni- REASON - a permanent tax cut can't hap­ Chesterton. U.S. Steel um." pen in '99." It could be "broader and President Paul Wiiheim complained that Instead of . He called for substantial tax cuts, deeper." taking strong steps to pre· the removal of welfare costs from proper­ WRTV's Norm Cox asked, "How vent further. f~relgn steel ty tax rolls, a "responsible reserve" of at much broader and deeper?" Garton dumping, Cllntoil·p·roj>osed least $1.1 billion, full-day kindergarten, responded, "Exactly what I said." a seven-point plan of solu· • and (most intriguing) "I ask your support After a couple more questions, the tlons for Injuries already for a strong, fair system to hold schools room fell silent. Entertainment hour was Incurred. The administration accountable for their progress toward aca- over.•:• continued on page 4 Thursday,Jan.14,1999 Page 4 of8 TICKER. Buyer poised to prosecute President T A P E Congressman says witnesses crucial to impeachment case v. Clinton • By MARK SCHOEFF Jr. answer questions regarding whether Is offering $300 million In The Howey Political Report Clinton's alleged behavior qualifies as an tax relief. "In order to get impeachable offense. this you have to suffer WASHINGTON - Rep. Steve In a brief filed Monday in the first." said Wiiheim. "What Buyer believes he and his colleagues on Senate, the White House denied the we're trying to do Is stop the House impeachment prosecution team impeachment charges and asserted that the suffering." Bethlehem have had to walk through fire to get to the even if they were true, they would not rise Steel President Curtis Senate trial. ~liG. RESS. to the level of Barnette said Clinton's plan 1 Is "not yet sufficiently com· "This has been an uphill battle for Co'1 ~ an impeach- prehenslve, timely or effec­ us," said Buyer. W A T ( H able offense. tive. U.S. Rep. Pete Buyer is one of 13 House "man­ ·A two-thirds Vlsclosky called the Clinton agers" who will argue the case against majority vote plan ''wholly Inadequate." President Clinton in the Senate impeach­ in the Senate would convict the president ment trial, which begins Thursday after­ and remove him from office. For now, the U.S. Rep. Mark Souder has noon. The House passed two articles of focus is on the trial. switched committees • impeachment against President Clinton Buyer expressed irritation at Senate heading for the House nearly along party lines in December. The rules governing the proceeding. The Resources Committee, articles allege that Clinton committed per­ which oversees national Senate agreed to give the House managers parks and federal land use, jury before a grand jury and obstructed and the White House lawyers each 24 from the Small Business . justice to keep secret his affair with for- hours, spread out over several days, to Subcommittee on mer ~ite House inte~"!l Mon:fa · present their respective cases. S~ato;;s Empowerment (Derrick Lew;:isky. I will have 16 hours to ask questions DePledge, Fort Wayne Even though the presi ent's • through Supreme Court Chief Justice News-Sentinel). Said Souder tenure in .office is at risk, it's e prosecu­ William Rehnquist, who will be presiding. of the empowerment sub· tors who feel under siege, Buy r said. He Then the Senate will debate whether to committee, "I think we did said the team has persevered a ainst dismiss the case. If it does not disiniss, the substance, but what I think strong forces arrayed against i : the White Senate will vote on whether to call wit.;. It needs Is a mixture of sub· House "spin machine"; White ouse stance and glamour. I real· nesses, who could include Lewinsky, lzed that to do what I want· lawyers; arcane Senate rules; d public Vernon Jordan and Betty Currie. A major­ ed to do would take much opinion. ity vote would cany each motion. more time than I had." "We keep proceeding b cause we're Buyer groused about the "con­ armed with the truth, 11 Buyer s id. "The tours" of the Senate proceeding. "At this Alumni of the University of facts of the case keep prevaili g over the point, it's hard to even call it a trial," he Notre Dame are overwhelm· denials, evasions and diversio s. 11 said. In a major detour from a normal lngly opposed to the Buyer and the other Ho se prosecu­ trial, it will begin without anyone know­ Flghtln' Irish joining the Big tors are all members of the Ho se ing whether witnesses will be called. If Ten (or, as we call It, the Judiciary Committee, which s nt four arti­ the Senate allows witnesses, senators in Enormous Eleven). Said St cles of impeachment to the Ho se floor in Joseph Valley Alumni Club the first row may want to step back when president Jeff McGowan of December. Each of the manag rs is a Buyer has the floor. Granger, "Notre Dame lawyer. Buyer served three ye s in the With palpable enthusiasm and con­ stands for being a national Arni.y as a member of the Jud e Advocate fidence, Buyer sketched out how the Catholic University. I would General's Corps. He also was deputy to House managers "will blow (the White be afraid some of that Indiana's attorney general and racticed House) defense out of the water. 11 Buyer would be somewhat swal· family law in Monticello. Buy r's role in said the White House defense is based on lowed up If they join the Big the trial will focus on impeachment law. Monica Lewinsky's statement denying that Ten" (Margaret Fosmoe, He is one of the managers assigned to anyone had asked her to lie and asserting • continued on page 5 Page 5 of8 Thursday, Jan. 14, 1999

• that no one had promised her a job in this thing off,'" said Christopher J. return for her cooperation in covering up Deering, professor of political science at TICKER her tryst with Clinton. George Washington University. But, if p That argument "will be detonated they fail to bring witnesses to the floor, "it T A E and dissolved within minutes," if will be seen as less than a full trial from Lewinsky takes the stand, Buyer said. the Republican perspective." South Bend Tribune). Said The House prosecutors would try to For Buyer, the t~l will provide Charles Lennon, executive demonstrate that Clinton and Lewinsky an important moment in he spotlight after director of the Alumni had agreed on a "cover story" and that she an uneven performance i the House por­ Association, "We'd rather knowingly signed off on a false affidavit tion of the impeachment drama. Buyer be one of one than one of 12. Not because we are bet· in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. wrote an 80-page brief laying out a ter than iny other lnstltu·· And then, "Boom. In essence, your detailed case against Clinton that he circu­ tlon, but because we are dlf• cover story is the lie," said Buyer. lated to almost two dozen House col­ ferent." The Notre Dame Calling witnesses is crucial to the leagues. He took the lead in a Judiciary Faculty Senate voted .25-4 In House case. "The White House is fright­ Committee hearing that focused on mili­ favor of joining the Big Ten, eried of the facts and the human-dimen­ tary rules regarding illicit affairs. His citing ND's ablllty to join the · sion," Buyer said. riposte to White House lawyers who Committee on Institutional If the House Judiciary Committee called impeachment supporters "zealots" Cooperation that Includes had known that the Senate might not was quoted widely. the Big Ten and the Univer­ allow witnesses and would restrict prose­ But a discursive statement made by sity of Chicago. cutors to the public record, it would have Buye~ at one House hearing drew mordant House Speaker John Gregg conducted its part of.the impeach~ent has ._nnoanced he will prm:.ess differently, said Buyer. 'This is our opportunity and we enforce the House's rules "Maybe we 'Y~u~d have call~ live get one shot. It's simple: We fol+­ against proxy voting, much • witr.e~~es ,and bmuij:1t ·~-Or.e ~vidence au~ to the cnagrln of House and made: it part of the public record," · low the faets, apply the law, ~d :r­ members. Observed Leslie Buyer said. the president impeaches him­ Stedman of the Fort Wayne Buyer has been one of the leading self.. .. " Journal Gazette, "There Is advocates of utilizing additional secret little chance visitors to the FBI documents alleging more misconduct criticism from a Washington Post writer Statehouse have any trou­ ble distinguishing between by Clinton that accompany Independent and at least one bad review in the Indiana the uproarious and haphaz· Counsel Kenneth Starr's report. Buyer has press. Buyer's remarks were a "tour de ard House and the somber, said that the evidence is part of the force of sheer imbecility," wrote the Post's stately Senate" despite the impeachment record even though it's not TV critic, Tom Shales, in November. end to proxy voting. Julia part C?fthe publi~ record. Rep. Mark But Buyer brushes it off. "If the Vaughn of Common Cause Souder re.viewed this evidence before vot­ largest error in my life (centers on) syn­ said Gregg's ruling will ing in favor of the obstruction of justice tax, I'm not going to worry about it," he uphold the "sanctity of the article of impeachment. said. process" (Bloomington "In any other trial, it comes in as Buyer is focused and determined. Herald-Times). material and relevant evidence," Buyer "This is our opportunity and we get one Gregg has also banned said. Before the Senate, the House man­ shot," he said. "It's simple: Follow the smoking In the Statehouse agers will "have to argue and ask" that it facts, apply the law, and the president halls, one of the last public be included. The Senate could vote not to impeaches himself." places In Indiana where one admit the evidence. The strategy may be straightfor­ could legally light up In a Buyer and his colleagues have to ward, but the trial may get complicated. public bullding. As leglsla· walk a fine line advocating their case. "It's going to take a while," said Deering. tors and lobbyists whined, "House managers have to represent their "There certainly will be more partisan Gregg told the Bloomington Herald-Times, "People were • Republican colleagues, which means they wrangling." •:• have to be as aggressive as they can be Schoe.ff is HP Rs Washington co"e­ unhappy before, and people without causing the Senate to say, 'Tum spondent. continued on page 6

t • Thursday,Jan.14,1999 Page 6 of8 TICKER . Indiana Racing Form • T A p E INDIANA MAYORAL RACES 1999 Evansville Mayoral: Republican: County Commissioner Russell Lloyd Jr.. Democrat: Rick Borries, City Councilwoman Gail Riecken, County Councilman Phil Hoy. are unhappy now." 1995 Results: McDonald 19,162, Frary 9,565. 1999 Forecast: Gail Riecken, the 1998 8th CD nominee, is giving serious consideration for a mayoral run. If she enters, that thrusts an entirely Allen County Democrats different dynamic into the Democratic primary. As an at-large councilwoman, she has run city­ have finally erased a wide before, out-polling retiring Mayor Frank $39,000 debt "And we Intend to stay debt free," McDonald in 1995. What's going through HORSE Riecken's mind are two thoughts: her '98 race R A ( E said Chairman Brian Stier, against Congressman John Hostettler was physi­ who burned a bank note In cally and mentally exhausting. She didn't close front of party members last that race well. Second is whether she'd like to take another shot at Congress in 2000. Last year week. Stier has upped the she suggested to reporters that she would only challenge Hostettler once. If Riecken gets in, she party's fund-raising from would probably be the front-runner given her vastly increased name ID. If she doesn't, look for $28,000 In 1994 to $93,000 Borries to be in the driver's seat. State Rep. Brian Hasler has decided not to run, saying it would last year. be virtually impossible to conduct a mayoral campaign while the legislature is in session. Lloyd appears to be the concensus candidate for the Republicans. Status: Toss Up. Long-time Fort Wayne City Fort Wayne Mayoral: Republican: Allen County Sheriff Joe Squadrito, Linda Councilman Cletus Ed· monds Is facing a Demo· Buskirk Democrat: Graham Richard. 1995 Results: Helmke 21,909, Essex (D) 11,033, Kempf cratlc primary challenge (L) 1,029. 1999 Forecast: Our sources tell us that Councilors Rebecca Ravine, John Crawford from Glynn Hines, a busl· and Don Schmidt won't run. That makes for a two-way Republican primary race between ness development officer In Squadrito and Buskirk. If that occurs, Squadrito would have a huge advantage, not only· in • Investments ai NBD. . t:r.t'lney but also with be.Hi:>t famHiiuity as a popul!!r two-tenn eheriff; Heth R.epul:lican fll!d · Democrat sources are teliing HPR that Graham Richard, a fornier state senatQr, will be fully The Gary Post-Tribune has funded and is poised to run the most competitive race for the Democrats since the epic Paul called the $357 million Helmke/Win Moses showdown in 1987. Allen County Democrats now have a full-time staff per­ Children's Health Insurance son, Deb Morrone, staffing its headquarters. Status: Leans Squadrito. Program bill "historic" In Its South Bend Mayoral: Republican: Steve Bradley. Democrat: Mayor Steve Leucke, attempts to cover an estl· Kevin Horton. 1995 Results: Kernan (D) 14,309, Waite {R) 3,106. 1999 Forecast: Former City mated 91,000 Hoosier kids. Controller Kevin C. Horton is going to challenge Mayor Leucke in the primary, calling for a State Sen. VI Simpson Is need of an "aggressive" mayoral role missing for the past two years. Horton served as controller · pushing Gov. O'Bannon's for five years under Mayor Joe Kernan and resigned the day before the lieutenant governor elect bill that would focus more did. Horton lost in a race before precinct committeemembers to succeed Kernan in 1997. Leucke on community level health told the South Bend Tribune he has raised $50,000, to which Horton responded that he ~ould resourcel. "I think we need put in $50,000 of his own money. "We will run a very aggressive campaign," he said. Status: to plan and design this pro· LEANS LUECKE. gram more from the bottom up than having It dictated to INDIANA GOVERNOR 2000 us by Indianapolis," she said. Said State Rep. Charlie Governor: Republican: U.S. Rep. David Mcintosh, Fort Wayne Mayor Paul Helmke, Brown, who heads the George Witwer. Democrat: Gov. Frank O'Bannon. 1996 Results: O'Bannon (D) 1,107,342, House Public Health Goldsmith (R) 997,505, Dillon (L) 35,261. 2000 Forecast: Gov. O'Bannon is where he wants to Committee, "Our medical be now. A stellar '99 legislative session where he shows tactical leadership and accomplishes a community and schools good part of his agenda would probably scare Mcintosh, his most formidable challenger, away have to get behind It." from the race. Robin Winston is committed to running O'Bannon's re-election. The official line out of Mcintosh's office is that he'll make some decisions early this summer.. If Mcintosh does­ For the second consecutive n't run, that would leave Helmke and Witwer as the top contenders at this point: Both would year, the City of Gary was need to demonstrate early the ability to raise money and execute a statewide game plan - some- • named the nation's most thing neither has been able to do at this point. Another person.who might consider a run is 1998 dangerous city by Morgan Senate candidate John R. Price. Qultno Press, a publishing BRIAN A. HOWEY•:• Page 7 of8 Thursday,Jan.14,1999

•COLUMNISTS 0 N IN DIANA TICKER T A p E Gary Gerard, Warsaw Times-Union is all about. About the only accurate comparison anyone can rightfully make - The impeachment process is starting to and research firm In between the winter of '78 and the early get interesting. And, as it unravels, it Lawrence, Kansas. keeps changing. After the House passed stages of the winter of '99 is that there articles of impeachment - which lots of was an early January snow storm that set U.S. Rep. Julia Carson people said would never happen in the the stage for the Big One. •:• . praised Indianapolis for Its first place - there was talk of how there response to a Ku Klux Klan would never be a trial. All the CNN and Bill Gleason, South Bend Tribune - rally last Saturday. "This Ku network TV talking heads and their paid It's just so sweet of them. It's enough to Klux Klan rally Is having the opposite of Its Intended experts were telling us that there would make you break down and weep tears of effect. Instead of dividing our be some sort of deal for censure and the gratitude, isn't it? Well, isn't it? The community, It Is bringing Senate would simply forego all this trial league that doesn't care about 99 percent together people of different nonsense. Then they told us, well, there of you.has opened its $2 billion arms to races, ethnic backgrounds will be a couple days fot each side to pre­ welcome you back. Golly, whiz, the and faiths In a show of sent its case. After th~t there would be a National Basketball Association wants to unity." In response to the vote. If two-thirds of the senators didn't be reunited with you. And isn't it grand KKK rally, such organlza· vote to have a trial, then they'd would. of those owners and players? Hypro­ tlons as the Indiana-polls move to vote on censure. l'hen they told crites! Hypocrites! Hypocrits!•:• Zoo and the Chlldren's Museum had free events and. us, wen, W.~re mig..l}fl)e.'.~'tri~lafte;- aii, -racted thousands of peo­ but it won't tie much of a trial. It will Bonnie Blackburn, Fort Wayne ple. Only a few dozen people only take a week or so and there won't be • If the Republicans want attended the KKK rally. Journal Gazette - any witnesses. Next they said, well, it to have a realistic chance of throwing off Indianapolis and the State of looks like there will be a trial after all their image as sex-obsessed, rich, old Indiana was once·ruled by and maybe a couple witnesses might be the KKK In the 1920s before white men, they'd do well to nominate called, but not Monica Lewinsky. Now the governor of Indiana and Elizabeth Dole for president in 2000. they say this could be a full-blown trial the mayor of Indianapolis Already, "Draft Liddy" movements have with a bunch of witnesses including were Indicted and convicted sprung up in conservative stronghold Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan and on corruption charges, and states like North Carolina and Florida. former Grand Dragon D.C. Betty Currie and it probably will take at Her name is included in virtually every Stephenson was convicted least a morith or so. All of this in.the not­ poll on possible presidential candidates. on a homicide charge. too-distant past was labeled ·as a near And she does well, consistently ranking impossibility by the experts. And these just behind "I'm telling you for the last Fort Wayne Mayor Paul guys are experts? Their predictions are time, I'm really not running for president" Helmke said In his last State of the City Address, "Bot· worse than the weatherman's. •:• retired Gen. Colin Powell, and "I'm not tom line Is we're In great my daddy" George W. Bush Jr. She even Terre Haute Tribune-Star shape as a community" Max Jones, outdraws conservative fave and local boy (David De Camp, Fort Wayne Ever since last weekend's winter storm Dan Quayle. She is one of the nation's Journal Gazette). Helmke dropped snow and ice on the Wabash most admired women, thanks to her star renewed his desire for a con· Valley, I've read and heard that its prow­ turn as the GOP's first lady nominee in solldatlon of Fort Wayne and ess is being compared to the Blizzard of 1996. Though her husband, Bob, got Allen County governments. '78. Give me a break. The fact this storm trounced at the polls, he probably did bet­ "We work together on a is being mentioned in the same breath as. ter than he might have because of his whole lot of Issues, but no one Is In charge," Helmke the '78 storm tells me the past 21 Valley wife's popularity. And Elizabeth Dole said. County Commissioner • winters have· been so incredibly mild that was as well or even more qualified than folks have forgotten what a typical winter her husband for the office. •:• continue.d on page 8 Thursday,Jan.14,1999 Page 8 of8 TICKER. Quayle says he can raise $25 million for 2000 Dan QUayle• is saying that without a was questioned by Los Angeles Times • T A P E doubt, he's a !US million neyv millinneum writer Ron Brownstein about his marijua­ man. na and cocaine use during his youthful Ed Rousseau said, "As far The Former Vice President from excess days, Bush hemmed and hawed. as I'm concerned, you'd Indiana has committed himself to raising What raised eyebrows was not the gover­ have to change the .whole $25 million for his 2000 presidential race. nor's squirrelly answers, but the fact that state constitution as sort of "He is not daunted by the task," said Brownstein asked the questions. As one a Band·Ald·ldea for It" spokesman Cam Carter (Associated observer put it, "George W. has a glass Press). "Quayle has a national fund-rais­ jaw." HPR isn't so sure Bush will even State Rep. Russ Stilwell ls ing base and he has hundreds of thousands run, given the fact that his daughters will charging that the ISTEP graduation exam Is unfair of supporters, active donors around the be heading to college soon. and should be ended. countty" Quayle is expected to file FEC • Liddy Dole: If President "When they complete their papers for an exploratory committee in Clinton's impeachment trial dissolves into course of study, we say, February. Quayle is expected to announce partisan bickering among the Old Men of 'Sorry, you are not going to his candidacy in Huntington, Indiana, the Senate, Liddy Dole will find a wave to graduate.' It's undue pres· probably sometime in March or April. ride. In fact, it's already forming. The sure for a kind to undergo." Meanwhile, most of Washington's question is, how long will it last? Supt of Publlc Instruction talking heads are in the camp that Quayle •Steve~ -.~'s been vetted Suellen Reed told the doesn't have a ghost of a chance to win and has w - GOP circles, Associated Press, "A lot of people have seen change the Republican nomination in 2000. Mike utsider. come and go, have seen a McCurry, George Stephanopoulous and • M~d _. -n Quayle: They lot of tal~ about what Is HPR beg to differ. tty~ i~[~!m·.-~~f say he's stupid, but going to happen, and then There are sever.:.t things to keep in it',1 oia news, exce~\t.forLeho and the General Assembly pass· mind when it comes to Quayle: Letterman. Quayle can respond that with­ es something else. I think out his family values initiative, the '92 • • The Politics of Personal this is something we Destmc-tion: Quayle has already been ticket would have had even less than a absolutely need to stick vetted. The current front-runner, Texas message than it did. •!• with."•!• Gov. George W. Bush has not. When Bush

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