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 Indianapolis• • Dan Quayle 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 Indiana. 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 Arizona 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.